“The President intends to ensure that the federal government is a model employer.”
~Except for the fact that the government produces no goods, manufactures nothing, sells nothing, and maintains its enormous size on the backs of taxpayers.
A business is dependent upon its production and sales.
“At a time when all parents are working in more than 60 percent of households with children (up from just 40 percent in 1965), and 63 percent of women with children under the age of 5 participate in the labor force (compared with 31 percent in the early 1970s), one fact is resoundingly clear: The fundamental structure of our workplaces has simply not kept pace with the changing American family.”
This is the key phrase. No one puts a gun to both parents’ head and says you both need to work. That decision is up to the family.
The problem with society today is that “stuff” is more important than family. Families could survive on one income, they just choose not to do it.
Our list of rights keep growing... but what if a right interferes with the rights of others? What right gets priority?
Its easy to be facile about paid leave but its not as simple and straightword as Valerie Jarett makes it seem.
More benees from 0bama that someone else gets to pay for. Paid leave used to be something companies used to attract top people. Now it’s an “entitlement” .
I have a good, updated LinkedIn account, which I keep strictly business, and I generally like the LinkedIn service.
However, I DO NOT like the “influencer” articles on LinkedIn, including Valerie Jarret and other obama Administration officials.
And I REALLY do not like the New Age “influencer” articles, by such miscreants as Deepak Chopra. If they have New Age heresy and paganism on LinkedIn, they should also feature Orthodox Christian “influencers”. But of course they don’t!
Why does he bother with asking Congress? Why not merely speak it into existence?
I cringe every time I hear Obama say ‘we want more women working’. All I can think is ‘they want more kids in their early indoctrination camps, aka Govt. Day Care’. I wish moms who want to stay home with their kids would receive the emotional support they need. But that is not going to happen in Obamaland.
I have worked construction and truck driving most of my life. Most of my employers have been understanding if I need sick time or personal leave, but the rule is you get paid when you work.
Sure, paid leave would be nice, but I knew going in what the deal is. Sad to say, there are people I have worked with who would happily game the benefit. Some of my employers are close to the bone, just couldn’t afford it.
What business has Valerie Jarrett ever run, except for her slum property in Chicago? Growing up with Communist parents certainly doesn’t qualify her.
How about reducing the tax burden on families so that moms can afford to stay home and raise their own kids.
How about reducing the regulatory burden on business so that there will be more jobs out there and wages will rise.
The government just doesn't come out and say you must do this and it magically is so. Regulations like this come with the requirement that business document that they are complying.
This is a huge new expense on business. Right now business must permit an employ unpaid time off for family medical issues. That means the employer must pay to replace that worker during that absence. That can mean overtime for other workers or bringing in a temporary worker.
These are not minor expenses. For a small business they are crippling burdens. But for Democrats it is not the cost that matters it is the thought that counts.
“Hey pajama boys and girls... make sure you contribute to the economic recovery! Get paid not to work!”
This sycophant and her mini-me boss are getting more insufferable by the day. Free community college, free time off work, where does it stop? They know they can never get this past Congress now, so they are just pissing into the wind.
I suppose the employer has a ‘right’ to pay for services not rendered?
I believe it is in employers’ best interest to encourage a healthy, balanced family life among their workforce. But in the end, employers pay for work, not need.
A really cool message to send to the youth of America in this regard might be something like:
“Life will be much easier if one gets married before raising a family. A married couple can balance the needs of child rearing much more effectively,” and then go into the benefits of having a parent choose a less demanding career, or staying home to raise children during formative years.
Because I suspect that the 41% national illegitimacy rate (75%among blacks, 51% among ‘conservative’ Hispanics) enters into this “I can’t raise my children” drama.
So Federal Government workers don’t have “sick days”?
you think it’s a right only because you aren’t paying for it. pretty lavish with other people’s money.
The big, dirty, unspoken secret is that while the parenting of children is critical to the future of society, there is not one single aspect of it that benefits an employer in the short-term. This forced benefit will not improve the bottom lines of any employer other than the IRS and Jarrett nows it.
Employers tend not to worry about whether or not a well-parented little Timmy will grow up to be a promising young sales employee twenty years from now. They worry about why his dad is taking Wednesday afternoon off to go to little Timmy's baseball game now - when they have a crew of childless 25-year-olds who are willing and able to do the dad's job cheaper.
Within the limits possible, expect parents who demand and use this type of benefit to be the first ones laid off or fired, when the opportunity arises.
LinkedIn is becoming a useless welfare state echo chamber very quickly. It had promise a few years ago, but I hardly look at it now - there's always some blowhard bloviating about some new social welfare scheme with a chorus of seminar posters chiming in with comments.
HEY VAL JARJAR, WHAT ISN’T A RIGHT IN OBAMALAND??
Did LinkedIn shut down the comments? The comments hyperlink isn’t working for me.
Perhaps if we did not destroy marriage and drive women from their homes this would not be a problem. Maybe Ozzie and Harriet have something to teach us today.
Why do you even have to work, Valerie? Isn’t a living income subsidy, housing, medical care, food, a cell phone, cable TV, internet access and a 60” HDTV everyone’s human right even if they don’t choose to work? Why are you oppressing the poor working man by suggesting that he has to work to get “leave”???? RACISM!!!!!!!!