一个主要的建筑承包商团体正在反对带薪家庭假病毒法案的带薪休假和病假规定，称该措施将对建筑公司的现金流有严重影响，并可能导致重大裁员和公司破产。

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在3月16日给参议院领导人的一封信中，美国联合总承包商表示，众议院立法（3月14日早些时weeks of paid family leave and two weeks of medical leave, at a level equal to at least two-thirds of workers’ pay rates.

该规定将适用于少于500名工人的公司。

[查看3月14日冠状病毒法案的摘要here。]

AGC还发现该法案的规定通过向雇主提供税收抵免并不令人满意来抵消树叶的费用。新利18备用官网登录一方面，公司不会在数周内从该信用中获得收益。

In the letter, Jimmy Christianson, AGC’s vice president of government relations, says that the leave mandate "at a time of extreme economic uncertainty among so many small business employers already exposed to cash-flow difficulties, could lead to mass layoffs, employer bankruptcies and supply-chain issues that could delay delivery of medical and emergency-response facility projects."

The contractor group says that instead of the tax credit, the federal government should pay for the medical and family leave. AGC didn't specify precisely what mechanism the government should use to make those payments. It did say the Trump administration should consider using agencies such as the Social Security Administration or the unemployment insurance program to help workers affected by the coronavirus.

克里斯蒂安森还说，国会也应考虑其他行动。They include requiring federal agencies and state agencies that use federal-aid construction funds to continue making payments to contractors for a year, even if projects are delayed, “to ensure such employers can maintain cash flows to pay employees’ salaries and benefits, and their subcontractors, especially small businesses."

In addition, he suggests cancelling for three months the payroll taxes that support Social Security and Medicare. Both employers and workers pay the payroll taxes."

AGC spokesman Brian Turmail said via email that it’s “too early to estimate the cost” to contractors of the leave provisions, “short of knowing that it would be very disastrous.”

Turmail added, “There are are just too many variables but there is no way firms can float the costs for 12 weeks until claiming their tax credits.”

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also has advocated a payroll tax cut, which didn't make it into the March 14 House-approved bill.

The legislative picture has been fluid. A new development was House passage of legislation on March 16 making “technical corrections” in the coronavirus measure it had just approved two days earlier—the one that contained the family/medical leave provisions.

The text of that new corrections bill wasn’t immediately available. The next step would be Senate action on coronavirus legislation.

Also on March 16, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he planned to make “a series of proposals” to be included in a further coronavirus response bill. The “initial infusion” would be “at least $750 billion,” Schumer said.

他说，他设想的后续法案将“立即为小型企业提供帮助”。

Story corrected on March 17 to clarify that AGC is suggesting generally that the federal government should be responsible for fronting payments for the House bill's medical and family leaves. The association recommends using agencies like the Social Security Administration and unemployment insurance programs as providing possible avenues to provide assistance to workers.

另外，AGC呼吁取消工资税三个月，但协会官员说，他们并不是说薪资税暂停应该是支付医疗/家庭休假费用的方式。新利18备用官网登录