Posted on 08/23/2005 12:57:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
this for the low wage workers. the ones who probably already get a bunch of federal money anyway? free insurance, food, housing assistance, huge tax breaks, paid daycare...
look people, i'm glad you at least work, but mcdonalds shouldn't have to pay you to be sick. this can and will lead to abuse of the system. also this isn't fair when you think about the fact that most of these "low wage jobs" have to call someone else in to cover the work the sick person isn't doing.
Exactly!
I employ 5 people here at the store. If one of them calls in sick, I have to pay one of the others to cover. I can't also pay the sick one. Providing coverage for them would cost 3 times the annual mortgage on the building. I just don't have it. The grocery business is very low margin. And I'm a single, independent, not a chain.
If the state of VA were to mandate health care, the store would be closed in 24 hours.
I can't afford to get sick. No one pays me to be out. I worked with pneumonia last year. Took my meds and wore a mask.
"Who pays the self-employed when they get sick?"
I'm self-employed. I compensate for sick days by hogging all the profits for myself, so it all balances out if I have to take a day off. ;)
I can't believe Madistan hasn't found a way to screw the self-employed yet. I can see Austin King scribbling in his little notebook already, "Note to self: Find way to screw self-employed citizenry NEXT! Untapped resource for city funds!"
I hate these people.
100 hard-working and put-upon Liberals in the crowd, and 1 Conservative who hasn't worked an honest day in his life!
Well, that's how Howard Dean would describe the scene, anyway... ;)
This has been run up the flag pole forever. It's BS. The mildly ill are only too infirm for work, go to the mall see how many show up there.
Simple business solution #2: tell City Council to "stick it" and make it stick.
I wonder why the "crowd" was not at work?
How may were municipal employee's given the time off to show at the meeting? How many were dead beats looking for a place to get in some air conditioning?
How many were SS recipients already living off the government?
You are really smart, smarter than 99% of the speakers at that meeting!
Why should the company have to pay for this by mandate...shouldn't this be a bargained for exchange? Why should the government stick its nose in here? Bad, bad, bad...
What about those that don't have a job? Huh? This proposal is discriminatory.
My place of employment figures sick time in with pto time, at the rate of 16hrs/quarter for a 1.0 fte. They used to separate sick time and pto. I really think putting the two together must work at getting fewer 'sick' calls since it has continued.
Separating the two (as is done at another similar institution) seems to ensure that most employees will call in sick enough times to make sure they don't lose the extra hours, which seems to punish those who never call in sick even tho they lose that 'extra' time off and end up taking up the slack for those that do.
I kinda like the way my employer does it better, since i seem to be healthy enough not to ever actually have to call in sick.
In a socialist regime, there is no provision for self-employed people. In their perfect world, we would all work for the state.
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