The employer should not provide anything but an agreed upon wage for agreed upon labor........period. Anything else is up to the employer todecide if they choose to provide it.
Why is it that everyone expects their employer to provide them with "benefits"?
"The employer should not provide anything but an agreed upon wage for agreed upon labor"
Exactly. What kind of fantasy world is this guy living in? In this fantasy world everybody flipping burgers can afford a house with a white picket fence, a car, company picnics, and a cheap and honest auto mechanic. What he hasn't told is us what exactly is the living wage in this fantasy world? Why can't he give us a number?
That hasn't always been. Without benefits, the lucky ones who fall into serious health crises would be bankrupted overnight.
I buy my own medical insurance, and it is expensive. If medical costs weren't so sky high, I would try to pay as I go. A catastrophic illness can literally kill you. You land in the hospital with some terrible thing like stroke, heart or cancer, and wish you were dead if you don't have insurance to cover the astronomical costs. The stress of it can kill you.
It's up to the employer to treat their employees fairly, starting with paying them enough money to live on or they are nothing more than exploiters, the kind of people who caused the revolution in Russia. I don't want to see that happen here. It won't because the government is too powerful.
So instead we will have more dysfunctional people like the guy here who stalked his girlfriend who had his kid from her job at the mall, rammed her car, the police saw it, chased him, he wrecked his car, took off, police went after him, he knocked the policeman unconscious, commandeered the squad car, got his gun, found himself cornered and shot himself.
Why is this relevant? Poor-paying jobs and related societal pressures caused by a breakdown in morality and exploitative business practices are putting people over the edge. Don't forget these are not nine to five people who can go home and relax. They have to work all kinds of crazy hours, and it throws their biological clocks off.