Judge Rules Earned Sick Days Ordinance Must Appear on 2017 Ballot
Albuquerque, NM -- Yesterday, in a victory for advocates of earned sick leave, the Honorable Judge Alan Malott reaffirmed his prior ruling that the Albuquerque Healthy Workforce Ordinance must appear on the 2017 municipal election ballot. He also struck an illegal “advisory question” related to sick leave from the ballot, ruling that it employs “semantically loaded terms” and “is an inappropriate attempt to inject political advocacy onto the ballot and into the election process.”