I am all for paid sick leave, I have it at my workplace. That is one of the reasons I work there, the benefits are great. Hover like most things in life, there is a trade off. I could make twice the wages I receive now working for a start up tech company or VAR but I've been down that road before. Great money, 60+ hours a week, out of town four nights a week, 5:50 am flights, sleeping through most of weekend, enough stress to make bomb squad technician break down and cry and very little time with my family. No thank you, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt.
If you don't receive paid sick leave at your job, find one that does if it's that important to you. You may have a longer commute, you may have to take a cut in pay, you might have to work in another field. My point is, if an employer is mandated by the government to give you paid sick leave he is going to cut his cost somewhere else. It's called capitalism.
Now that Democrats have won control of Congress, Mr. Kennedy, the incoming chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, is more optimistic.Hey Ted, ask these same people if they would like the keys to your multi-million dollar estate in Massachusetts for a month, I bet they say, heck yea, how bout the keys to your Mercedes while your at it?
"It has a wildfire of support across the country," he said. "When you talk to workers, this is, besides an increase in the minimum wage, the most important issue for these families. This is a families issue. This is a values issue."
Why don't you give these hard working folks your keys Ted? It's a values issue after all, right? Ted?
Ted?
The reason Ted doesn't offer a free time share and hold an open bar with these hard working people is it would cost Ted money, his money.
I don't want to sound like a blow hard, round em' up and ship em' back in box cars to Mexico alarmist, but I swear you could go along way to solving many of our labor problems by securing the border. The huge, and I mean huge amount of skilled and semi-skilled worked that are here illegally are driving down wages benefits by good old supply and demand. Lots of workers willing to do your job at lower wages equates to you loose bargaining power with your employer.
Raising the minimum wage is going to happen, with the illegal immigration problem we have today, the free market doesn't work correctly. I can live with that, but when you start mandating guaranteed sick leave you are mandating a cut in worker productivity. That is not good for American companies in general. Once the democrats get paid sick leave through, how long until HillaryCare is back on the table. Oh, joy, socialized medicine. Maybe we can wait for two years for an MRI or eight months to see a doctor. That will be fun.
Do you ever wonder why the large hospitals right over the boarder from Canada are so busy? It's the Canadians paying cash for medical care they cannot get from their Utopian goverment run heath care system.
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Employer benefits are now entitlements anyway. And the "more is never enough" theory will only be mandated by the government.
....and the hospitals north of the Mexican border are going broke, because illegal immigrants are paying NOTHING for medical care they cannot get south of the border, because there is none.
Maybe we could get the Canadians to pay for the Mexicans?
Meanwhile, Ted and the other big shots who use the illegal labor pressure our government leaders not to enforce the laws, and because they make the biggest campaign donations they have more influence than all the millions of Americans who want the border secured.
Now you know why I resigned from the Republican party.
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