Posted on 01/14/2015 2:57:20 PM PST by jazusamo
The White House will announce a major push Thursday to require paid leave for American workers.
In a blog post on LinkedIn Wednesday, Valerie Jarrett, a senior advisor to the President, said Obama will sign a memorandum to ensure federal employees have access to at least six weeks of paid sick leave when a new child arrives.
The president will also call on Congress to offer six weeks of paid administrative leave.
“We can't say we stand for family values when so many women in this country have to jeopardize their financial security just to take a few weeks off of work after giving birth,” Jarrett said in the release.
“We can't say we're for middle-class stability when a man has to sacrifice his economic security to care for his ailing mother.”
Obama will also pressure Congress to pass the Healthy Families Act, which will give Americans the ability to earn seven days of paid sick leave, and announce additional funding through the Department of Labor to help states study how to create their own paid leave programs.
The announcement comes two days after The Hill reported that Democrats are seizing mandatory paid leave as their next big pocketbook issue in 2016.
Out of 185 countries and territories in the world surveyed by the International Labor Organization, the United States is one of only two that does not offer paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea is the other.
Talk about naked pandering.
Somehow the left always thinks the way to improve the economy is free stuff and mandates that other give freebies too
All this is just a test for when he drops the big on in Nov 2016
$1T as reparations for slavery.
Why not just go for it all and mandate 365 paid days off each year?
Just want to make us as lazy and inefficient as France and Russia
WHY PAY SOMEONE WHEN THEY”RE NOT PRODUCING ANYTHING FOR YOU?
Oh, never mind. Now I’m a Baby Hater. *SMIRK*
if we all have union work rules, why would we need unions?
Oh, yeah. That's right, we worked heard and planned ahead.
This is to be expected from the vile demon. He’s just getting warmed up.
In other news the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution will be replaced by Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto by executive order.
He is going to turn us into France where the cost of new hires is so great and getting rid of them so difficult, that companies just don’t do much hiring and there is a vast population that either don’t work or only work on a when called basis.
The price of votes goes up every year.
Obama will announce he’s running for his Third Term soon ,LOL
Do you wonder if oblammo just sits around the Oval Office, stoned, in his pajamas, blowing bubbles, and thinking, “wheeeee...what can I propose today? “
His actions seem to be born of either intoxication, or just plain stupidly.
“The president will also call on Congress to offer six weeks of paid administrative leave. “
These people are insane.
“We just got our behinds handed to us in the last election. The Democrat base is wondering if we are still viable. What does our playbook say we should do?”
“Make more promises you can’t possibly keep.”
“Yeah. We play them for suckers again.”
“paid leave for American workers”......
We already have such a program, its called “Vacation” for time earned for actually working. First thing you know he will want it given to the lazy bastard “gimmedats” for collecting their welfare money, we all know how hard that is to get.
women in this country have to jeopardize their financial security just to take a few weeks off of work after giving birth,
I guess staying home and RAISING YOUR CHILD isn’t a viable option??
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