[xrp]

Pulaski believes paid family leave and other new laws will not push companies out but rather improve business.

"When employers care about their people and their personal lives, you get the best productivity," he says.

Pulaski is pretty delusional. Businesses employ people to WORK (ie: produce) not to have families.

[Eala]

Pulaski believes paid family leave and other new laws will not push companies out but rather improve business.
"When employers care about their people and their personal lives, you get the best productivity," he says.

What an idiot, or liar! These laws won't do a bit to make "employers care about their people and their personal lives."

[balrog666]

Pulaski believes paid family leave and other new laws will not push companies out but rather improve business.

Then Pulaski is a fool.

[Centurion2000]

Nobles plans to stay put for now, a decision based in part on the cost and logistics of running plants in two states and partly "because I love Fountain Valley." Like many local business owners, he says he loves the climate, but he also likes the sense of community in Fountain Valley, where he lives.

Hope he LOVES fountain valley, because it's going to be the reason that he loses his shirt and his business in the future.

[zoyd]

Pulaski believes paid family leave and other new laws will not push companies out but rather improve business. "When employers care about their people and their personal lives, you get the best productivity," he says.

It's thinking like this that got us into trouble in the first place.

[tubebender]

But Art Pulaski, spokesman for the California Federation of LaborThugs, Cheats and Thiefs, cites the Forbes poll as evidence that things aren't as bad as business executives say.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[OldFriend]

One thing is for sure, he'd best not consider New York or New Jersey for his business.

[rudypoot]

"But Art Pulaski, spokesman for the California Federation of Labor, cites the Forbes poll as evidence that things aren't as bad as business executives say." Who would you rather believe in this case? A government spokesman with a poll or the business executives?

[NathanR]

ExpressAir Delivery Systems, Costa Mesa

When the Legislature this year approved paid family leave, an ExpressAir employee walked into owner Bruce Ross' office asking to be paid for her recent maternity leave.

"I said it wasn't retroactive and doesn't take effect until 2004," Ross recalled. "She said she'd have to time her next pregnancy to take advantage of it. Everyone will take it. Why would they not?"

ExpressAir has specialized in same-day delivery of parcels and documents in Southern California for 12 years. Two years ago, the firm had 20 workers. Now it has five. Ross now contracts out most of the driving because of workers' comp rates that increased 36 percent in the past two years and will leap as much as 50 percent Jan. 1.

Ross did save $160 per truck when the state cut the vehicle license fee, but then it introduced a $1,700 user fee on commercial trucks.

After the Legislature restored overtime pay after eight hours in a day instead of after 40 hours in a week, Ross stopped allowing workers to take off for appointments or school events and make up the time later.

"It doesn't hurt me, it hurts my workers," he said.

(This is a from a different article in the same Register.)

[BfloGuy]

He notes companies are still moving here. For example, Kohl's Department Stores is opening 28 stores and bringing 2,800 jobs to Southern California next year.

When someone's reduced to touting retail stores as evidence of economic growth, then he's out of ammo.

Retail stores have to be located near their customers. And when there's no growth overall, then those 2800 new jobs replace the 2800 old jobs that will be lost.

New York State's got tons of retail stores.

No economic growth -- but tons of retail stores.

[snopercod]

I wish some of these companies would consider Western North Carolina.

We are desperate for industry here, wages are low, regulation is low, and the scenery is beautiful. There aren't many places in the US where a humble factory worker can afford a home overlooking a waterfall like one can here.

[Lancey Howard]

But Art Pulaski, spokesman for the California Federation of Labor

"Federation of Labor"? So this guy is a socialist scumbag union thug? Democrat operative? Both?

The funny thing is, one GOP leader recently said that the Republicans are going to be a whole lot more concerned with making sure individual families don't get socked with new taxes than they will be with protecting businesses, because so many of California's businesses helped fund scumbag Democrat campaigns. LOFL!! "Revenge is a dish best served cold." See what that does to California's ranking with business.