Posted on 10/01/2014 7:38:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
How dare they take food from the mouth of Pelosi’s billionaire husband!!
So, if these people can think of a good enough excuse, they don’t believe they have to follow the laws less imaginative people do?
I’m having a disconnect here. There are all sorts of intern programs. There’s publicity encouraging the learning experience, and sometimes the charity of it. Why was this winery singled out for minimum wage “abuse” attention from the government? Why not a bank, or a PAC?
Must not have donated enough $$ to the Party of Big Government.
Vermont is full of small farms that take on volunteer workers, or people who want to learn about farming, and so on. We don’t have Democrat-sponsored factory farms in Vermont where the taxpayers effectively pay the bills, so those kinds of informal arrangements are about the only way that local food production can survive here.
Want to learn how to grow mushrooms on logs? Then find someone in town who does it. Want to learn how to raise crops without chemicals? Same thing.
Kind of funny, that such a liberal state follows sane policies in many areas. The same with guns. Vermont is chock full of hippies with guns.
Monica Lewinsky was a Volunteer. Just saying...
Or a Congressman or Senator?
I laugh when people use the term “corporate greed”.
No one and nothing is greedier than the State, which has no end to its appetites.
Probably a larger competitor bitching about it. Big business loves regulation. Keeps the little guy from horning-in on the profits.
Fascists.
Could they have charged their volunteers a nominal fee and called them students?
Now we're cookin'. I had to get out of the PR business because I had to write outrageously dishonest stuff about free enterprise and "market competition" for our big clients. Big companies hate competition and the free market. The last thing in the world they want is a small upstart competitor who has a better idea -- and price. Invent a better mousetrap and the Big Guys will do everything in their power to shut you down.
Charge them a dollar each to attend a hands on wine making class.
good idea
Vintner College
“...Winery should have been paying them and paying worker taxes, the state Department of Industrial Relations said.”
No more need be said.
I know it is a Mafia analogy but the .gov operates very similarly. They are the biggest gang in town except they dress better, usually.
Baloney. Many companies use interns.
Someone with some stroke complained. Its an abuse of power, and if you could get to the bottom of it you would find that the complaint came from a friend of someone in power.
If you're smart, you get out of California. Sell and move to anywhere, but get out if you don't want to be harassed and sucked dry under color of law.
There are, no doubt, all kinds of certification fees, inspection fees, and record-keeping costs that the state requires for an educational institute.
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