Posted on 06/02/2020 7:57:54 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Pizza chain &pizza is offering its employees paid time off for activism following the death of George Floyd last week. The fast-casual restaurant announced the news on Sunday. “For those in this pain. For those in this fight. We stand with the Black Community against racial hate and injustice,” &pizza tweeted. “In memory of George Floyd & in UNITY always. From this day forward, @andpizza will be giving its employees paid time off for activism.”’
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The custom-pie restaurant chain, based in Washington, D.C., employs about 700 people across 40 locations in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. The new time-off policy will empower employees “to participate in activism of their choosing starting this week and moving forward,” the spokesperson said.
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Maybe the owners watched Do the Right Thing.
Special this week—hammer and sickle shaped pies.
No I don’t - and don’t call me Shirley!
a lot of the companies (including mine) have over the past couple of years suddenly adopted “charity time” where they would give you days off for works of charity and this included political activism.
Big companies that are leftist run I could sort of understand - but everybody doing it? This isn’t corporate largesse - these same companies only give maternity leave as approved by law and no more.
It smells like a tax break.
Pope Francis “likes” this!
If an employee is injured or commits a crime on company time, is the company liable?
We left California last November...just in time it seems.
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