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Posted on 04/28/2020 3:47:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News Tuesday he will not consider any additional coronavirus aid legislation unless it includes liability or litigation protections for businesses and employees seeking to come back to work.
"We can't pass another bill unless we have liability protections. That's the only way we're going to ultimately begin to get past this," McConnell told "Your World with Neil Cavuto". "We have to have businesses brave enough to open up again and employees brave enough to go back to work. And I'm glad to see that some of the states are beginning to move in the direction of reopening."
"We are in a place that we have never been before and we are all hoping for a rapid recovery," McConnell added. "I think that we get a more rapid recovery if we have liability reform [and] if we have testing that reassures people, because the economy will not truly be open unless everybody's willing to participate in the economy again."
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loser pays
As long as it doesn’t relieve Bill Gates (the anti-Christ’s Technology Czar) of liability for his tracker ‘vaccine’ at the same time.
Pelosi, Schumer Reject Liability Limit for Companies That Reopen
Bump
It’ll be interesting to see if the court upholds it.
STOP SPENDING MONEY, MITCH!
I can see where testing will provide employees with the reassurance to return to work but how will liability protection do that?
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I can see where testing will provide employees with the reassurance to return to work but how will liability protection do that?
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The liability protection will provide some reassurances to the EMPLOYERS to reopen the business. The employERS are as much a part of the reopening equation as are the employEES.
They do not want business to reopen or for the economy to get better.
What do those 2 care about people loosing their livelihood or businesses they are stinking rich so it does not affect them.
I am having a hard time trying to contain what I really think about Pelosi and Schumer.
NO MORE MONEY!!! STOP THE SHUTDOWN!
Please stop “helping” us.
Don’t pass anything else.
Without employees that the employers aren't opening anything. And if my employer said "I'm open, it's safe, trust me. But don't think of suing if you get sick because I'm protected." I'm not sure how anxious I would be to go back.
Without employees that the employers aren’t opening anything. And if my employer said “I’m open, it’s safe, trust me. But don’t think of suing if you get sick because I’m protected.” I’m not sure how anxious I would be to go back.
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I get the point. But perhaps a more inhibiting thing influencing the employees’ desire to return to work is the $600 per week supplemental unemployment payments. That $600 added to the state’s unemployment weekly payment makes the total payment quite “sticky” in holding employees back from return to work. I think that will be the main hindering factor and the “safety” issue more of an excuse. That’s only IMHO of course.
I share your sentiments but get real. The spending will only stop when we are worse off than venesuela.
Why do we need this ?
open up the country
Although they won’t say it or admit it, I’d bet the real reason for these asinine government dictates for illegal shutdowns is the fear of lawyers suing everyone and everything over the next few years.
So you have a company.
You start back up, and then one of your employees get’s COVID from a swinging waffle house. He comes in and gets other people sick, or claims he got sick from someone at your business that did not have symptoms.
Now you have to go to court in order to keep your company.
Now, we don’t do that with the flu or anything else, but since we went nuts I have no idea the liability here. neither does anyone else
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