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Why We Think Paid Leave Is a Worker's Right, Not a Privilege
Linked In ^ | 1/14/2015 | Valerie Jarrett

Posted on 01/15/2015 5:31:44 AM PST by EBH

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To: Dr. Sivana

“To bad they don’t ask why.”

Yeah, I was hoping they would.


61 posted on 01/15/2015 11:16:53 AM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: goldstategop

If you know Thing One about nutrition (REAL nutrition, not obamatrition), you don’t want the breakfasts or lunches that the government provides anyway!!!!

PHOOEY!!!!


62 posted on 01/15/2015 11:17:27 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: EBH
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63 posted on 01/15/2015 11:18:45 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Corporate Law

pinging


64 posted on 01/15/2015 11:22:05 AM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: EBH

In my experience, most companies give employees a bucket of PTO to use as they need/choose for sick or vacation.


65 posted on 01/15/2015 11:28:33 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: Don W

You’re double lucky. Mid 70s I worked for stste of NC. Sick leave and personal time: you don’t use it in a calendae year, it flushes. Double stomp stupid, they all but begged us to lay out using it up.

Some of us (me) actually liked the job, never scammed them. Could be why I made Operator 3 in 18 months; supposed to take minimum 3 years. Boss had to take that one upstairs, but he did.


66 posted on 01/15/2015 11:44:48 AM PST by Barkeep99
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To: EBH

WELFARE!!!


67 posted on 01/15/2015 12:11:48 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: EBH

A WELFARE proposal from that tawdry Iranian SLUT.


68 posted on 01/15/2015 12:12:36 PM PST by 2harddrive
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To: Barkeep99

Some of the folks I work with are “concerned” that their sick is paid out at retirement at “ONLY” 50%! Good Grief, that’s the very definition of “free money”!


69 posted on 01/15/2015 12:25:50 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: EBH
This isn't new

It's the same old tired socialist garbage. Vote buying scheme and means to expand government control then; vote buying scheme and means to expand government control now.

Note the last article of FDR'S second "right" in his "Second Bill of Rights."

70 posted on 01/15/2015 1:12:53 PM PST by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: EBH

Total Horse Shiite.

1. I don’t have kids, so where’s my piece of the American Worker Dream?

2. Chinese, Vietnamese and other mothers from Asia harvest rice through their pregnancy and go back to work the next day.

How do they do it?

3. Why should an employer have to hire additional personnel or have current employees shoulder the work burden for someone else?

Isn’t forcing a company to pay for someone’s pregnancy just shifting the burden from the taxpayer to the employer?

It’s still welfare


71 posted on 01/15/2015 2:14:31 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: EBH
I would think this over rated bimbo would be articulate enough to know the difference between a right and privilege.
72 posted on 01/15/2015 2:48:22 PM PST by dearolddad (/i>)
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To: EBH

Id rather be paid more for each day of work, and choose which or whether I take off any given day, then have my employer allot a fixed amount each year that I must use or lose.

That just introduces inefficiency and unfair wast that does not reflect or allow me to adapt to the variability of life.

That being said I recognize some people have a hard time managing their own money for them I recommend employing a financial manager that rations their income & savings for them. Some people(like liberals) need managers for some things, All of us need freedom to adapt to our own needs.

The same should go for any and all other Goods & services that employers currently provide.


73 posted on 01/15/2015 3:47:43 PM PST by Monorprise
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To: EBH

The concept of a business is to make a profit and grow. NOT create employment and provide a “living wage” to “raise a family”.

If you can’t work and raise a family then get a brain and DON’T HAVE KIDS until you CAN AFFORD THEM you idiots.

Socialism sucks.


74 posted on 01/15/2015 3:50:56 PM PST by Fledermaus (Stop The Madness!)
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To: EBH

If a paid day off is a worker’s “right” I’m sure the employer will make sure everyone knows that raising the price of his goods is his right. And in Texas, he can fire anyone he wants without a reason.


75 posted on 01/15/2015 4:01:48 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: saleman

“So Federal Government workers don’t have “sick days”?”

Yes, they do. But a lot of them look upon sick leave as just more vacation time. It’s not unusual for some of them to have 0 accrued annual leave and 0 accrued sick leave. A lot of them don’t have any money saved up either.


76 posted on 01/15/2015 4:35:26 PM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: EBH

Got a feeling Hillary will push paid maternity/family/medical leave as a wedge issue in 2016. Likely Obama is teeing it up for her.


77 posted on 01/15/2015 4:40:51 PM PST by eater-of-toast ("It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." --Calvin Coolidge)
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To: OpusatFR

“A business is dependent upon its production and sales.”

Do not expect the Iranian troll to understand that! She is a communist.


78 posted on 01/19/2015 10:48:41 AM PST by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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