Mayor de Blasio wants NYC to become the first city to mandate Paid Personal Time (PPT) for workers. Let’s put aside the moral aspect of this:
A group of people (called the government) use the threat of violence to make a mandate between two parties- employee and employer. If you are an employer and you know you have to give the next hired person PPT of 10 days, what would you do?
The salary offered by the employer would factor in this 10 days off. The salary would be lower than it otherwise would have been. This hurts people who favor a higher salary rather than the days off. The same way mandated maternity benefits hurt women who do not plan to have children.
A good negotiation practice when trying to get a higher salary is to tell your potential employer that you do not want time off, medical benefits and/or 401K matches. You will be surprised what a good negotiation chip this could be in commanding a higher salary.