Posted on 01/15/2015 5:31:44 AM PST by EBH
“The President intends to ensure that the federal government is a model employer.”
~Except for the fact that the government produces no goods, manufactures nothing, sells nothing, and maintains its enormous size on the backs of taxpayers.
A business is dependent upon its production and sales.
“At a time when all parents are working in more than 60 percent of households with children (up from just 40 percent in 1965), and 63 percent of women with children under the age of 5 participate in the labor force (compared with 31 percent in the early 1970s), one fact is resoundingly clear: The fundamental structure of our workplaces has simply not kept pace with the changing American family.”
This is the key phrase. No one puts a gun to both parents’ head and says you both need to work. That decision is up to the family.
The problem with society today is that “stuff” is more important than family. Families could survive on one income, they just choose not to do it.
Our list of rights keep growing... but what if a right interferes with the rights of others? What right gets priority?
Its easy to be facile about paid leave but its not as simple and straightword as Valerie Jarett makes it seem.
More benees from 0bama that someone else gets to pay for. Paid leave used to be something companies used to attract top people. Now it’s an “entitlement” .
I have a good, updated LinkedIn account, which I keep strictly business, and I generally like the LinkedIn service.
However, I DO NOT like the “influencer” articles on LinkedIn, including Valerie Jarret and other obama Administration officials.
And I REALLY do not like the New Age “influencer” articles, by such miscreants as Deepak Chopra. If they have New Age heresy and paganism on LinkedIn, they should also feature Orthodox Christian “influencers”. But of course they don’t!
Why does he bother with asking Congress? Why not merely speak it into existence?
I cringe every time I hear Obama say ‘we want more women working’. All I can think is ‘they want more kids in their early indoctrination camps, aka Govt. Day Care’. I wish moms who want to stay home with their kids would receive the emotional support they need. But that is not going to happen in Obamaland.
I have worked construction and truck driving most of my life. Most of my employers have been understanding if I need sick time or personal leave, but the rule is you get paid when you work.
Sure, paid leave would be nice, but I knew going in what the deal is. Sad to say, there are people I have worked with who would happily game the benefit. Some of my employers are close to the bone, just couldn’t afford it.
What business has Valerie Jarrett ever run, except for her slum property in Chicago? Growing up with Communist parents certainly doesn’t qualify her.
How about reducing the tax burden on families so that moms can afford to stay home and raise their own kids.
How about reducing the regulatory burden on business so that there will be more jobs out there and wages will rise.
The government just doesn't come out and say you must do this and it magically is so. Regulations like this come with the requirement that business document that they are complying.
This is a huge new expense on business. Right now business must permit an employ unpaid time off for family medical issues. That means the employer must pay to replace that worker during that absence. That can mean overtime for other workers or bringing in a temporary worker.
These are not minor expenses. For a small business they are crippling burdens. But for Democrats it is not the cost that matters it is the thought that counts.
“Hey pajama boys and girls... make sure you contribute to the economic recovery! Get paid not to work!”
This sycophant and her mini-me boss are getting more insufferable by the day. Free community college, free time off work, where does it stop? They know they can never get this past Congress now, so they are just pissing into the wind.
And where’s muh free breakfast?
Why have it end with paid leave?
People need to understand that there are few things more destructive to employers than the costs they must bear for workers when they aren't working ... and that includes pension costs, disability payments, etc. Add this to the mix and you've got a recipe for disaster for a lot of employers.
I suppose the employer has a ‘right’ to pay for services not rendered?
I believe it is in employers’ best interest to encourage a healthy, balanced family life among their workforce. But in the end, employers pay for work, not need.
A really cool message to send to the youth of America in this regard might be something like:
“Life will be much easier if one gets married before raising a family. A married couple can balance the needs of child rearing much more effectively,” and then go into the benefits of having a parent choose a less demanding career, or staying home to raise children during formative years.
Because I suspect that the 41% national illegitimacy rate (75%among blacks, 51% among ‘conservative’ Hispanics) enters into this “I can’t raise my children” drama.
So Federal Government workers don’t have “sick days”?
Its one thing to have paid sick leave... but paid leave in general would create a disincentive to not work.
If the employer is going to pay you anyway for not showing up, why bother to punch in the clock?
In a jobless world, how people would get income would be structured differently but paid leave in a world where things need to get done simply cripple productivity.
you think it’s a right only because you aren’t paying for it. pretty lavish with other people’s money.
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