Thom Hartmann: Paid sick leave on the chopping block now?

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 06:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1mZMrGKD4s   Posted on YouTube: October 21, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 77   Posted on DU: October 21, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 1047

 
Zaid Jilani, Think Progress.org, joins Thom Hartmann. So what is the shady corporate lobbyist group The American Legislative Exchange Council - or ALEC - up to now? There's a right wing think tank working hard to make sure you're putting in your 8 hours...even when you're sick as a dog! The possible "dying fate of paid sick leave in the work place is in the works.

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[applegrove]

1. The "organs" of corporate America are plentiful these days. They

truly are functioning like one entity... an uber governing entity to be exact. Totally undemocratic.

[Darkhawk32]

2. I've worked at the same company for almost 8 years and I've never

had paid sick leave ever. I have two weeks of vacation time, that's it. No personal days, no sick days.

If you get real sick, you need to apply for FMLA.

The company has implemented a 12-point system where if you miss a day, it's a point. No matter if you're sick, have to go to court, stranded in a blizzard, whatever.

It forces you NOT to use your vacation time just in a case something serious happens and you need to use the vacation days to cover up any possibility of accumulating points.

The points don't "fall off" for a full calendar year after you've acquired them.

Lovely how they care so much for their employees.

[fasttense]

3. There was a time when if a company didn't offer sick leave.

People wouldn't work there. The company would have a very difficult time hiring people so they usually only had young teenagers without degrees and perhaps illegals.

Now a days, you are just lucky to have job.

You know when your employer only pays you minimum wage and no benefits, he's saying if he could pay you less, he would.