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Pelosi pushes for federal paid sick leave law
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/27/2013 | Betsi Fores

Posted on 03/27/2013 12:18:09 PM PDT by markomalley

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To: markomalley

Once again Nance drank too much coffee, got tweaked and crammed her head up her fundament.


21 posted on 03/27/2013 12:44:21 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: jeffc

Republicans should just disband, let the Dems completely crash the system, then snatch control when they rebuild the nation and cut them out. It’s the only way you will teach the mass of idiots out there.


22 posted on 03/27/2013 12:53:25 PM PDT by Clock King
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To: rwfromkansas

not enough folks joining private unions so Stretch and the Gang have to mandate more regulations from the Temple of Smart in the Distric of Corruption.


23 posted on 03/27/2013 12:53:34 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: Clock King
Republicans should just disband

If FR is representative, that's pretty much happening at the national level. I doubt we'll see a Republican POTUS in my lifetime.

24 posted on 03/27/2013 12:55:50 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Justice

True. I am grateful I went to college and have a job with good benefits. I am extremely grateful after I found out I had cancer over Christmas (just finished treatment and am cured thank God...one of the few cancers you can say that with since it was early and extremely chemo-sensitive)...but anyway, I was so grateful I had enough time to take off for chemo and my wife had plenty of PTO as well so she could spend time with me at the cancer center.

All because we are in fields which have some benefits. People need to work toward it if they want it.

Government can’t step in and provide it.....that will kill any chance of a jobs recovery.


25 posted on 03/27/2013 12:57:58 PM PDT by rwfromkansas ("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
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To: rwfromkansas

Congratulations on your successful treatment. That’s wonderful. I’m glad you had the benefits to cover it.


26 posted on 03/27/2013 1:14:01 PM PDT by Justice
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To: goodnesswins
City of Portland, OREGON has done this already...last month

Yes, Seattle too. And then small retailers (5 or more employees) threatened to close or reduce employees because they could not afford the extra expense.

The legislature took this up but could not resolve anything this session (not unusual except for raising taxes)

27 posted on 03/27/2013 1:16:11 PM PDT by llevrok (Keep your arms out. It makes it harder for them to throw a net over you.)
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To: markomalley

I can see employers complying with this by reducing paid vacation time and/or paid holidays enough to make up for the mandatory paid sick time. This is not something the government should be dictating. At smaller businesses and/or those with mostly part-time employees, this could become very expensive to the employer. And you would have people taking their entire seven days or hourly equivalents, whether they are sick or not, which will just raise the cost of everything to the consumer, reducing sales, etc.


28 posted on 03/27/2013 1:24:10 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: faithhopecharity
The San Fran Douchebag will help these workers by putting them in the unemployment line. She already forced thousands into part time status with obamacare’s 30 hour mandate. Nancy must be trying to turn the entire country into the hookers, heroin addicts and bums who make up her voting districts. No thanks, you stale old whore.
29 posted on 03/27/2013 1:24:53 PM PDT by peeps36 (America is being destroyed by filthy traitors in the political establishment)
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To: markomalley
The Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993, allowed for 12 weeks of unpaid leave for workers to take time off for maternity, or care for a sick family member.

FMLA did nothing but open an avenue for abuse by the demographics who think they are "owed". Yes, there are some who use FMLA as it's meant, but most waste it away and put additional hardship on employers.

30 posted on 03/27/2013 1:35:44 PM PDT by Sarajevo (Don't think for a minute that this excuse for a President has America's best interest in mind.)
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To: NEMDF
I can see employers complying with this by reducing paid vacation time and/or paid holidays enough to make up for the mandatory paid sick time.

Easily. In fact, guaranteed. PTO will be split up (as it used to be) into sick leave and annual leave.

That will both reduce company liability (sick leave is not normally payable upon termination) and reduce effective benefits for most full time employees.

Thanks, Nancy. Thanks a lot.

31 posted on 03/27/2013 2:45:56 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: rwfromkansas

They could always work in another field.


32 posted on 03/27/2013 2:52:40 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Don W

From what I remember, she tried to exempt those island tuna workers from some law, probsbly min wage, and when that didn’t work they ended up having to lay off a bunch of workers. The unions love her in CA, and I used to point out to them that the workers in her vinyards weren’t union, but they didn’t care because it was her.


33 posted on 03/27/2013 2:56:53 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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