In their first legislative collaboration, Mayor de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito are set to announce a significant expansion of legislation passed last year to provide workers with paid sick leave.
The two will hold a press conference in Brooklyn Friday to reveal their proposal, expected to cover an additional 300,000 New Yorkers.
The announcement will be made at Esmeralda’s Restaurant in Bushwick.
Under current law, enacted in June, employees of businesses with 20 or more workers will get up to five sick days a year beginning in April 2014.
A new law is expected to require that businesses with at least five employees provide five sick days a year.
De Blasio made the expansion a major plank of his mayoral campaign, and is proving he means business by also making it the first measure that he and his handpicked speaker will push.
Critics of the law said that government should leave sick-day arrangements to workers and bosses, and that the requirement will burden small businesses.