Just Heard Thom Hartman Talk About Restaurants Not Offering Sick Days For Their Employees....

[SoCalDem]

5. Restaurant work has always been "marginal" employment for most

of their workers.. Family restaurants employ ONLY family and they all trade off when someone is sick.. Itls usually no biggie, since many of them are not even paid workers.

Other restaurants have always had a LOT of part-timers who rarely get even enough hours to live on (their pay usually is well-below min wage), and most have NO benefits.

This type of work ...along with MOST service jobs was never intended to be work that provided a living income or enough to support oneself..

There was always a steady stream of :

Moms looking for a little extra money while Dad watched the kids at night...or while kids were at school
teenagers after school & on weekends
struggling wannabee actors
retired folks looking for a little extra to supplement their pensions

Our "service economy" has now morphed those low wage service jobs into "family supporting jobs" and it will never work out for the ones who have only those jobs......

70% service economy for a country as large as ours is a LOSING proposition...