Hey it’s rooters, the Saudi propaganda newspeak.
An 8 year study on paid sick leave ends the same day Dems start pushing for paid sick leave.....
Gee...what are the odds...
“...most economically competitive nations...”
Well, the ‘O’ has changed the rules, the US was one of those... I call this study BS.
Here we go! The 0bama mouth breathers begin their cacophonous regurgitating of lies, lies, and damn lies!
The approach has worked well for the last 19 years. The key observation is that this isn't a gift. It is earned in proportion to productive hours worked and is part of your agreed compensation package. Upon termination, the value of the hours is paid out at the current rate of compensation. The balance limits help the company keep the liability under control. An earned benefit is fine. If the politicians attempt to force businesses to make sick leave a "gift" out of company revenues, there is going to be a big problem.
What jobs?
exceptionalism is the new “lag.”
So?
U.S. also lags in:
International product competitiveness.
Quality of pre-college education.
Number of workers supporting a growing number of leeches.
Faith in their government, from the top down.
Honest overpaid workers in the financial sector.
Percentage of honest politicians.
I'm sure there must be a profound point to be made in this article.
I just can't find it.
>”The findings are published in a new book, “Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth that We Can’t Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone.”
Well whoop de Doo! Another cockamamie book. Why need an 8 year study when you can simply look up federal laws on employment and labor in each country?
As an employer I certainly don't mind offering all these benefits (and more) to my employees.
Of course I'll have to adjust wages down to pay for it, but I have no problem doing so if "dictated" by Obama and the Demwits. I've got plenty of margin between what I pay and the minimum wage.
Heck, the employees can even form a union (or join SEIU) if they want. Once we start flirting with paying minimum wage, however, they'd better be ready to find work elsewhere, because at that point it won't be worth my time.
“The 15 nations are Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Britain and the United States, all of which have been ranked most competitive over the last decade by the World Economic Forum, she said.”
Unfortunately, thanks to current trade policies of the US government and Wall Street, the US work force is competing for jobs against China, India, Vietnam, Mexico not the 15 countries cited in the article. The article fails to compare how the US worker stacks up against our real competitors in terms of sick days, vacation days and wages. When making that comparison with our actual competitors, the study should examine the real working conditions in those countries, not just the laws on the books. Laws intended to protect workers in those nations are often ignored.
Under open market free trade as practice by the US the hourly worker in the US is ultimately competing against the lowest wage country in the world. To be competitive, wages, benefits, and working conditions have to drop or we have to accept high levels of unemployment. We are seeing the consequences of our policies in the form of rising unemployment because even at minimum wage, US workers are not competitive with $2 a day labor in some countries.
Imagine how many Americans could be employed making the products sold everyday at Wal-Mart. There was a time, not long ago, when most of those products were made in the USA. Are we really better off as a nation for opening our domestic to the world?
We’re also lagging in national strikes and labor riots!
(but we’re losing productivity and approaching the above)
The headline should be “US less socialist than most other nations.”