Don't let the Left win!
IT'S GO TIME!
Less than $3.2k to go!!
Posted on 06/01/2014 10:59:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Paid maternity leave and sick days, a higher minimum wage, and pay equity legislation could address a range of women’s economic issues, panelists told a Senate committee during a hearing last week.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held its second hearing in a month last week to discuss legislative proposals to help women succeed in the workplace.
Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) noted in his opening remarks that the United States is the only industrialized nation without a federal law providing workers access to paid maternity leave. He said the U.S. must strive to provide paid maternity leave and other workplace benefits that the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 does not mandate. …
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Still more reasons to never hire a woman.
No paternity leave? SEXIST!
I agree, people need to realize that with the layoff and other reasons, the Father can be the one staying home. As much as people trash talk the MRM, it’s nice to know that I wasn’t the only case of the father watching his infant son while he acquired an education to get a job that would work in an evolving economy. This doesn’t dismiss the fact that women can be and are abused, but it feels nice to know that you aren’t the only Father who plays a stay at home role out there.
With the exception of the federal entities indicated in the Constitution's Clauses 16 & 17 of Section 8 of Article I as examples, entities under the exclusive legislative control of Congress, the states have never delgated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate any of these intrastate issues. The states uniquely have the 10th Amendment-protected power to address these issues.
So it must be an election year, corrupt federal politicians once again dangling the carrot of constitutionally indefensible campain promises in front of low-information voters, voter who have never been taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers.
Higher taxes to ensue someone has to pay for it.
We're also one of the few nations without a federal law requiring a photo id to vote....
/johnny
/johnny
Every time Congress flirts with something, we and the Constitution are the ones who get (@(@#*#@(.
/johnny
Don’t have to worry about maternity leave for offshored employees.
That's exactly right. If the trend continues, there won't be a single factory left in the United States. Some Americans will be working at Starbucks, selling $10 cups of coffee. Some Americans will be working at McDonald's, selling $10 hamburgers.
Most everyone else will be on welfare.
Word for Today:
“ Fascism: Noun. - - - A system of Government characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of the opposition - - - “
Hitler, Hitler,
He’s our Man!
If he can’t do it,
Judge Roberts can!
Roberts, Roberts,
He’s our Man!
If he can’t do it,
Geithner’s IRS can!
Geightner, Geithner,
He’s our Man!
If he can’t do it,
BLM’s Reid can!
Reid, Reid,
He’s our Man!
If he can’t do it,
Obama’s NSA can!
Obama, Obama,
He’s our Man!
If he can’t do it,
Gestapo Holder can!
Holder, Holder,
He’s our Man!
If he can’t do it,
The Democrats
Damn sure will.
i guess obama thinks too many women are employed.
What about the existing Family and Medical Leave Act?
Overview
The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. Eligible employees are entitled to:
Twelve workweeks of leave in a 12-month period for:
the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth;
the placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care and to care for the newly placed child within one year of placement;
to care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition;
a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job;
any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on “covered active duty;” or
Twenty-six workweeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for a covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the servicemember’s spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (military caregiver leave).
Key News
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division published a Final Rule to implement statutory amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA).
To me the difference is paid vs unpaid.
FMLA being the unpaid, and Harkin’s the paid.
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