How to Govern

Step one is to look for signs of corrupt exploitative rat-f%$#s, and then investigate them.

Case in point, Zohran Mamdani has instructed city agencies to investigate organizations which have abnormally low sick leave numbers, which would indicate that they are using subterfuge to evade the city's paid time off laws.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection will roll out Friday a new compliance check to make sure that employers are following the city’s revamped paid time off law.

Going forward, if an employer’s payroll records show that fewer than 50% of employees have used any paid time off in the past year, the agency will flag that business as possibly engaging in “systemic” violations of the law, said DCWP policy director Elizabeth Wagoner. The exact benchmark varies by industry and company size, she added.

The 50% benchmark is based on the agency’s analysis of national data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which found that half of all private sector employees with paid sick leave miss at least one work day per year due to their own illness, injury or disability.

The agency will also continue to investigate possible violations of the law based on complaints from workers, she said.

This is precisely the sort of action that the New Dem/Blue Dog Democrats would never do, because it might offend donors if they investigated their law-breaking.