I have heard of this “going to work and told to go home”, but I wonder how much of a problem it is that the government must get involved. I bet it is very minimum.
It’s a rotten way to treat the employees when a phone call ahead of time would negate the problem. Is that too much to ask of an employer?
Unfortunately, for many businesses - this is a fact of life. How many pancakes will you sell tonight? How many people are going out to dinner on Monday between 2pm and 5pm? Enough to keep the regular full kitchen staff sitting around doing nothing? I don't know, odds are the owner doesn't know and I would beat the steak dinner a Democrat in Washington hasn't gotten a friction' clue either. But, that won't stop them from sticking their nose in this business.
The major constitutional problem with this proposed legislation is the following. Regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted people to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor in 1942 imo, it remains that the states have ever delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate either intrastate commerce or intrastate employment issues. This is evidenced by the following excerpt.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Nearly 80 lawmakers out of the House and Senate [emphasis added] introduced the measure."
The fact that senators are supporting this legislation is a good example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified. Senators should not be willing to pass such a bill for the simple reason that it wrongly steals unique, 10th Amendment-protected power to regulate intrastate employment issues.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear and corrupt senators along with it.
Then the employee will get laid off, and maybe the small business will fold entirely.
Then there won't be any scheduling problems anymore.
Problem solved, morons!
You’re right, it’s a very minimal problem and only impacts a couple industries, and the people in those industries understand it.
“I have heard of this “going to work and told to go home”, but I wonder how much of a problem it is that the government must get involved. “
Actually, it’s a pretty big problem. I talk to fast-food workers, Walmart clerks, etc. all the time. And they are REALLY being fvcked over because management is too lazy to bother with proper scheduling and to stick to it. Seems to me like pretty much ALL of these workers are on call ALL the time and can, and usually are, called in to work just hours or minutes before they are needed. The abuse is actually pretty horrible and disruption to family life is essentially almost intolerable.
The problem with a government (Democrat) solution is that it’s likely to cause as many problems as it fixes. If the Republicans were smart (yeah, I know) and weren’t totally bought out by big business (yeah, I know), they’d get in front of this and write their own bill, but minimize the regulations at the same time as maximizing the help for the people being fvcked over. If the Republicans would actually help the people once in a while, they wouldn’t be hated so much.