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Labor Secretary Says Paid Leave Would Boost Labor Force Participation
CNS News ^ | 10/21/2014 | Susan Jones

Posted on 10/22/2014 12:07:47 PM PDT by Rusty0604

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To: Mygirlsmom

Maybe that explains why there are so many thousands of federal workers on paid leave, they are just helping the economy!


21 posted on 10/22/2014 1:14:37 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Paine in the Neck

That’s one reason the public unions get their workers so much paid time off; the agencies have to have plenty of workers to fill in for the absent ones. The union gets more money and everyone except the taxpayers are happy.


22 posted on 10/22/2014 1:18:10 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
Increase participation in labor by paying people to not labor?

Crazy.

23 posted on 10/22/2014 1:24:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: fhayek

bttt


24 posted on 10/22/2014 1:25:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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I looked for a satire indication too, but I think this is real. He’s “reasoning” that if someone is on paid leave, someone has to hire someone else to do the work. It never occurs to him that if paid leave is a cost of hiring within the USA, employers are going to create fewer jobs here.


25 posted on 10/22/2014 2:21:15 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Rusty0604

Yeah, let’s make employers pay more people for doing nothing, that’ll solve everything. /s


26 posted on 10/22/2014 2:22:46 PM PDT by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: Pollster1

That’s the way gov’t agencies operate, but they have taxpayers that are forced to pay for it. They don’t have to worry about profit.


27 posted on 10/22/2014 4:24:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

What?! Paid leave is a solution to the opposite problem: when you have too many jobs and not enough people, you offer incentives to attract the best to your place of work.


28 posted on 10/22/2014 5:47:19 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Rusty0604
"The labor force participation rate of women ages 25 to 54 in the year 2000 in the U.S. and Canada was virtually identical. Today, Canada is ahead of us by roughly 8 percentage points, in large measure because they have generous paid leave laws and they provide affordable access to affordable child care.

So no chance that anything other than paid leave could cause that result? Undivided middle fallacy.

29 posted on 10/22/2014 6:19:25 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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