The bill offers employers flexibility in accruing sick leave. However, by the 200th day of employment, it should amount to five days.
This is not enough, but it’s a start I guess.
At my company we tried to negotiate for paid sick leave on top of our meager Paid Time Off (no current distinction) and corporate basically laughed at us. This shit needs to not be optional, and not just in California. Everybody gets sick and/or needs to take care of someone who’s sick. Ignoring that basic fact of life is absurd and inhumane.
Corporations are already upset about the push to pay existing workers more money. To have much more paid time off means they’d have to hire more workers to cover those (already run lean) shifts, AND pay them leave time too. Think of the profit loss!
Ha, you’re right, and isn’t it ironic that doing the better thing for everyone ends up being more profitable? It’s almost like they aren’t concerned with the actual value that’s lost, but more the difference between them and everyone else.
Back on Reddit I had a very old post reply saved from someone who through his work and connections had an inside view of the “wealthy”, and they broke down the change from money to power as one goes from “just” millionaire to higher up. When money becomes no longer a concern, or rather when obtaining “stuff” (as Carlin would say) is no longer a factor, how much power and influence becomes more of a way to compare one’s wealth to another. It may not even be important anymore on net value if one has a bigger leverage arm on things.
That’s spot on, and a lot their resistance to any sort of regulation is more out of distaste that the lessers put rules on them and it’s their right to abuse others and the environment
This is not enough, but it’s a start I guess.
At my company we tried to negotiate for paid sick leave on top of our meager Paid Time Off (no current distinction) and corporate basically laughed at us. This shit needs to not be optional, and not just in California. Everybody gets sick and/or needs to take care of someone who’s sick. Ignoring that basic fact of life is absurd and inhumane.
California should really learn from Midwestern Dems who is pushing fro 15 weeks of paid leave
https://www.stoppopulationdecline.org/gretchen-whitmer-pushes-for-needed-paid-leave-in-senate-bill-332/
Corporations are already upset about the push to pay existing workers more money. To have much more paid time off means they’d have to hire more workers to cover those (already run lean) shifts, AND pay them leave time too. Think of the profit loss!
You mean a decease in Profit Margins
There profits will increase because more people have more money to spend and time to spend that money
Ha, you’re right, and isn’t it ironic that doing the better thing for everyone ends up being more profitable? It’s almost like they aren’t concerned with the actual value that’s lost, but more the difference between them and everyone else.
Right!!!
It’s almost always about the abuse of power than the acquisition of wealth itself
Back on Reddit I had a very old post reply saved from someone who through his work and connections had an inside view of the “wealthy”, and they broke down the change from money to power as one goes from “just” millionaire to higher up. When money becomes no longer a concern, or rather when obtaining “stuff” (as Carlin would say) is no longer a factor, how much power and influence becomes more of a way to compare one’s wealth to another. It may not even be important anymore on net value if one has a bigger leverage arm on things.
That’s spot on, and a lot their resistance to any sort of regulation is more out of distaste that the lessers put rules on them and it’s their right to abuse others and the environment
Progress can’t be made without that understanding