Posted on 11/08/2024 4:23:35 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
There are no federal laws that require private employers to provide paid sick leave, but 15 states and Washington, D.C., currently have laws mandating private employers provide paid sick leave to eligible employees.
According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21 percent of private industry workers in the U.S. did not have access to paid sick leave.
Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska voted in favor of passing ballot measures entitling workers to paid sick leave.
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Invitation to fraud.
We have sick leave. As manager I said take it if you’re sick until I find out you aren’t, then I convert it to PTO and submit my proof of fraud.
In theory it’s a good idea. You don’t want sick employees coming to work just because they can’t afford to miss a day.
But unfortunately it also gives corporations just another reason to locate their factories overseas.
In the past couple of years they've been hinting (without stating outright which could get them in trouble for mixing leave types) that the sick leave can be used for personal emergencies or even mental health days. Please don't take a job somewhere else, you can take a sick day for it being too sunny to waste it inside working.
Inflationary as anything that raises the costs of labor raises the cost of everything.
When I worked, we would get our paid sick leave in one check up front at the start of each year. When you took off you didn’t get paid for that day on that weeks check. If you didn’t take off it was like a bonus check. That really held down absenteeism.
“Inflationary as anything that raises the costs of labor raises the cost of everything.”
Cost of labor is a minor factor in inflation. Printing money is the main cause.
Before WWII, there was no such thing as “benefits.” You got paid for your work and were expected to provide for your own maintenance and upkeep, top include health care.
After Selective Service rounded up all the healthy young men, manpower got scarce and labor was a “seller’s market.” To prevent this leading to bidding wars which would drive up the cost of manufacturing war materiel, Congress passed the Stabilization Act of 1942, which froze wages.
That’s when the more entrepreneurial types came of with the idea of adding “benefits” to the pay package which wouldn’t be subject to the pay limit. And that’s how things like paid vacation and employer-paid health insurance came to be expected by the American worker.
And that’s also how health care costs got so out of hand. Because the American worker’s job benefits not only isolate him from the actual costs of his medical care, it also isolates him from the costs of the health insurance that pays for it. He doesn’t give a damn what that MRI or that CT scan costs because he’s two layers separated from having to pay for it. So he doesn’t question when his doctor recommends a multi-thousand dollar test just to minimize his professional liability.
Want more free stuff? Vote demoncrat (and suffer the foreseeable consequences). Want all your living expenses to be better moderated? Take responsibility for how money is spent on your behalf.
There is no free lunch.
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