{"id":310476,"date":"2026-10-20T11:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310476\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:38:18","slug":"allegheny-county-paid-leave-proposal-prompts-one-third-of-surveyed-businesses-to-consider-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310476\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegheny County paid leave proposal prompts one-third of surveyed businesses to consider leaving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">A survey of nearly 400 businesses in Allegheny County found eight in 10 companies said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/09\/16\/paid-parental-leave-bill-modified.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the county\u2019s pending paid parental leave bill<\/a> would have a negative impact on them and a third said they might leave the county because of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/pennsylvania-chamber-of-business-industry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry<\/a>\u2060, which had already come out against the previous version of the bill, released the results of the study that was done by CorCom Inc. of Pittsburgh. The chamber said it and other unnamed business and industry groups helped with the dissemination of the surveys of 392 businesses of varying sizes and industries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Eighty-three percent of the businesses said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/09\/28\/paid-parental-leave-board-of-health-passes.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the legislation, approved Sept. 28 by the Allegheny County Board of Health, <\/a>would cost them more money; 63% of the businesses said the paid parental leave bill would have a very negative effect on their bottom line. More than half the businesses said they would raise prices to pay for the paid sick leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">And 40% said they would cut back on the hiring of full-time employees. About 25% of employers said they would have to cut full-time employees and 15% said they would lay off part-time employees if the bill were passed. Eighteen percent said they would use AI in lieu of some employees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/paid-parental-leave-business-survey.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/paid-parental-leave-business-survey.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A survey of nearly 400 businesses in Allegheny County found eight in 10 companies said the county\u2019s pending&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[127070,92591,17457,127069,73,75,74,127071],"class_list":["post-310476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-birth-defects","tag-congenital-heart-disease","tag-fda","tag-heart-valve","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-vienna-pecora"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}