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Paid leave drive petition OK’d by board

Employers in Michigan would have to let workers earn paid sick days. That’s under a petition campaign that could launch before the end of the year.

A state elections board says the petition meets all the technical requirements of Michigan law.

A similar drive to put paid sick time on the November ballot folded this past spring.

Danielle Atkinson is one of the organizers.

                           

“We didn’t have enough signatures. Unfortunately, it takes a lot of money to get an            issue on the ballot, and we just fell short.”

Atkinson says the campaign will be better prepared as it takes aim at the 2018 ballot. She’s not sure when signature-gathering will start. But she’d like it to be while the weather is still warm and political campaigns are talking about ways to help workers.