Posted on 03/04/2009 4:30:37 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Supporters rally in Raleigh for paid sick leave bill RAL-nc-flag Posted: 44 minutes ago Raleigh, N.C. — Advocates of a bill that would provide paid sick leave for the more than 1 million workers statewide who do not have it planned to hold a rally in Raleigh Wednesday to gather support. The bill was introduced in the state House of Representatives last month. At 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, supporters of the bill will gather at the state house to rally. About 1.6 million workers in the state do not have paid sick leave, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Forty-two percent of those workers are in the private sector. The bill would guarantee all workers up to 56 hours, or seven eight-hour days, of paid sick time per year. Employers with fewer than 10 workers would have to provide up to 32 hours of paid sick time. Workers would earn an hour of paid leave for every 30 hours' work. Advocates with the North Carolina Justice Center say people coming to work while sick is a cost to public health. “The folks who disproportionately lack paid sick days are the very folks who are cooking our food and serving it to us … working in hospitals and doctors' offices and in our child care centers taking care of our kids,” said NC Paid Sick Days Campaign coordinator Louisa Warren, who is also with the N.C. Justice Center. The Justice Center is among more than 30 groups, including AARP North Carolina and ACORN North Carolina, that support the bill.
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What, No lawn mowers?
Guaranteed to raise unemployment,lower wages, and raise prices.
Nothing is “free.”
Why don’t the workers use their paid time off if they want to stay out of work?
Why not? We are rolling in money now...
I read the article about SF instituting rent control so that no one would have to pay more than 1/3 of their income in rent and then I came across this. But this applies to an entire state.
Sean Hannity has been doing man-on-the-street interviews asking people what they think the govt. should give to people. He starts out with the obvious gimmes like health care and edukashun. Then he transitions into some interesting ones - like transportation. He got one guy to say that if someone needs to go to work and had no car, the govt. should provide a limo service to get him there and back. And the interviewees were serious as a heart attack.
Also happening in North Carolina.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1427817.html
More protest Orange’s revaluation
Lawyers dispute it can’t be undone
Jesse James DeConto, Staff Writer Comment on this story
HILLSBOROUGH - More than 200 taxpayers packed the Central Orange Senior Center, and sheriff’s deputies turned away dozens more who came to protest the recent countywide revaluation.
Hillsborough lawyer Cynthia Shriner countered County Attorney Geoff Gledhill’s claim that the county can’t rescind the revaluation because Jan. 1 has come and gone. She said all the commissioners have to do is overturn a decades-old decision to revalue Orange County’s properties every four years and take advantage of the state law that requires it only every eight years.
At least three other counties scheduled to implement revaluations this year have decided to delay them because of the state of the economy.
Local real-estate broker Tom Whisnant started to read a letter from Thomas Harrington, a Rockingham County lawyer. Commissioners Chairwoman Valerie Foushee cut him off. “Mr. Whisnant, your time has expired,” she said.
“He can have my time!” two women yelled from the crowd, one after the other. The audience erupted in applause, and Foushee allowed Whisnant to continue.
“It would be absurd for the legislature to take the position that you have no authority to rescind the revaluation,” Whisnant said, quoting Harrington.
The letter said counties comply with state law as long as they revalue properties every eight years.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Depending on who you read either 1200 or 1700 showed up in Hillsborough for the tax protest. They published the 1200 number but there is a house in Orange county with a sign out front that said “1700 people showed up”.
The Great Depression II hasn’t sunk in yet. It will.
easy for an employer to fix. If the state mandates paid sick leave, just reduce paid vacation....
Wonder how many of these “rent-a-protesters” called in “sick” today?? But I guess that would require them to actually HAVE a job....
Change we can believe in.
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