Liberals seem to have a genetic abnormality that prohibits them from understanding reality. Or perhaps they just did too much LSD in college.
I thought people already received paid sick leave. It may only be three to five days a year, but it is still paid sick leave. This is nothing new. I guess President is trying to take credit for this program.
That will add millions more to the unemployment rolls.
If given a week a year, they’ll take 2. This will help do what BO wants...put business out of business.
Supposed “compassionate” legislation almost invariably has adverse consequences that the sponsors either didn’t recognize or did and couldn’t care less about. If you give paid sick leave, you end up with a situation like I used to see years ago when I was a federal employee: staff who called in “sick” the third Wednesday of every month so they could take full advantage of 12 annual paid sick days. Essentially, it becomes 2.5 weeks of additional paid vacation for those who would abuse the “system”.
Mandatory sick leave for part time and seasonal workers is what the activist are after. They voted it through on a referendum in Milwaukee. Even though the measure has yet to take effect, I can personally point to dozens of positions that were eliminated as a result.
Why in the world would you offer paid sick leave to high school kids and layabouts who come and go from jobs.
It’s things like these that will ensure that there will be a massive shortage of entry level jobs as well.
Most sane companies stopped having sick time years ago. Sick time was just treated like an entitlement that everybody used every year whether they were sick or not. Instead, many companies have Paid Time Off that you can use for vacation, sick days, funerals, to meet with the cable guy, or whatever. It makes a whole lot more sense than trying to micromanage someone’s time off.
quick story- worked for a supermarket chain back in college, it was a union shop. We had more than a few employees that practiced the art of selective illness. They would come in to work deathly ill, dragging every form of influenza and rhino virus with them. During with winter, the breakroom was known as the “ER” because so many people were in there hacking their lungs out. We used to get changed in the cooler and take leaks by the loading dock because nobody wanted to go in there. On payday, they would brag to each other about the time that had left to accumulate 8 hours of sick leave so they can all go skiing or visit the strip clubs in Canada.
Meanwhile I worked there, worked shoveling/plowing snow, had an internship and attended college full time.
People don’t need any more paid sick-time.
One thing that’s gotta be said for Obama - he spends other people’s money faster than any man in history.
the minimum wage class needs paid sick leave so they can spend more time getting free obamacare
Dear Uncle, I feel ill- send me money
I agree that workers should have paid sick leave. But they should negotiate it with their employers.
Of course, if the Hussein regime mandates paid sick leave, the small number of employers who do not already provide it will simply cut salaries or delay or reduce raises to compensate. This will end up hurting the workers the mandate is supposed to help.