Posted on 02/22/2005 2:13:43 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
This statement should make all parents feel safe knowing their child's bus driver may have an illness which may cause a seizure.
Couric failed to report: "Italy, France, Germany and Spain all have unemployment rates 50 percent to 100 percent higher than the U.S., and many of the jobs in those countries and other EU members are actually public-sector jobs that produce nothing."
"Europeans may have an easier time at work, but shorter work hours, longer vacations and great benefits don't matter if you don't have a job", reports economists at Sweden's Timbro Institute.
..."data and analysis now available that eliminates the argument that America should follow in the footsteps of Europe with an expansive governmental role in the family and medical leave area," says Deanna R. Gelak, Executive Director, FMLA Corrections Coalition.
So much for both sides of the issue, "fair and balanced" Couric. "The French.. they've got it right?" No again, Katie..you (along with the French) have got it wrong.
We should propose a law to counter the Swimmer's. Namely, it should be illegal to declare a raging whiskey hangover as a sick day.
The main reason we are competetive in this world is our productivity. Lower the productivity and you lower the standard of living. Guess she wnats us to be like France who has been sinking into the worlds economic toilet for the last 2 decades
who is this Katie Couric? Is she the same "perky Katie" who used to host TeeVee shows on old Big Media back in the 20th century?
Wonder what she would think if she were hit with the French 70% marginal rate on income above $80K??
Well, Kerry doesnt have any problems with "presenteeism"
How many sick days did Mary Joe get ?
Katie Couric and Ted Kennedy,spokepersons for the working folks.Right!
As far as sick restaurant workers go,that's easy,eat at home.
In fact, I may decide to just take it to zero with or without stuff like this from FatBloatedBimbokillingDrunk Teddy - it's hard enough trying to run a business under today's existing oppressive nonsense from the government parasites.
FYI..have you ever considered submitting your stuff to the MRC? You write well...
If I were a betting man, my money would say this boss voted for Kerry.
I'm with ya friend. It's next to impossible to run a small business today, let alone start one, with all the BS marxist crap you have to abide by because of unconstitutional "laws".
FatBloatedBimbokillingDrunk Teddy
"bimbokilling"....I detest the FatBloatedDrunk as much as any sane person, but the bimbo part caught my attention...I feel bad for her manslaughter, but the "bimbo" part somehow rings true. No one until you pointed it out to me brings this up. She seems to have been "bimboing" with the wrong FatBloatedDrunk at the wrong time. Too bad for her. Her FatBloatedDrunk bimboing partner is one of the most powerful sinators in history. How macabre.
FMCDH(BITS)
And how much do you want to bet this mommmeeeeeeeeee has had many. many incidents of running home every time her little "darling" so much as sneezes?
I'm not saying she shouldn't have been allowed to go home for her injured boy but it isn't unusual for women to think the world has to stop because their made a boo-boo.
Even that is OK, but then don't come crying to me about people who can actually be DEPENDED on to be there move ahead and you don't.
Is that when she had that humongous fever blister that they kept trying to cover up? Eeeewww - ugly. Wonder if Matt let her kiss him?
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 98—963
JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI, et al., PETITIONERS v. SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC et al.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
[January 24, 2000]
Justice Stevens, concurring.
"I make one simple point. Money is property;"
Amendment V
"nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
Any such law is obviously and unambigously unconstitutional.
You and I are both business owners, let's exert our right.
Oh, please. There isnt an employer in the world who would fire an employee over this. Plus the story sounds like bull shiite, as well..
Then, you could at least be PAID for suffering through watching the perky one on a daily basis!
I can't even bear to watch the Macy's Day Parade any more. You're a better person than I.
Not only do Fr/Gr have higher unemployment rates then the US, they haven't created a job in decades, their corporations expand on other continents (incl North America), their budget deficits make ours look like a MasterCard bill and when they take on the burden of their own defense, they'll be bankrupt.
That whole story is suspect. And in my own experience as a manager, people called off for lots of suspicious reasons. I don't have a problem with someone staying home if they're really ill, but I don't see why they should get paid for it. However, many companies allow sick time hours based on how long and how much someone has worked. I know lots of employees who accumulated sick time and then took it all at once. A nice vacation.
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