The act would require employers with more than 25 employees to give full-time workers seven paid sick days a year and to allow part-time workers to earn sick days on a pro-rated basis.It is being pushed by a union group and others who are gathering signatures to get the issue on the November general election ballot. Local experts predict they will succeed. Proponents of the proposal praise it for giving Ohio workers proper time off to address health issues. Critics say it unfairly burdens small businesses. Said Joan Pisanti, a spokesman for the Employers' Association of Toledo, "It looks good for employees on paper, but you might not have a job anymore" if employers suffer financially.
I have a question for the brain trust at Progress Ohio...
If this bill is so damn good for everyone, why are we exempting small businesses with fewer than 25 employees?
Seriously, why should Jane Doe get 7 paid sick days because her employer has 27 employees when her husband, who works just as hard, gets -0- because his employer only has 24 employees? Where's the fairness in that?
What is the deal with the labor unions in this state? Are they looking at Michigan and deciding that not having to work for no pay is better than actually having a job and receiving a paycheck? Do they have a secret love affair for states like North Carolina and Georgia who can't build businesses fast enough? Maybe the unions are run by Mexicans and they can't wait to return to Mexico, where all the great jobs will be soon!
If you don't think that Honda didn't see this one on the horizon when they decided to put that new plant in Greensburg IN, just outside of Ohio, you're smoking crack and/or just an imbecile.
An imbecile that would vote for this law.
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This is one of the many offerings by petitioners outside Columbus Metropolitan Library branches over the past several years. I politely tell the people "I don't support that cause -- I prefer to keep jobs in Ohio" and I get blank stares back from the petitioners.
The DON'T have a clue. Another example of a liberal cause that makes them feel good about themselves (we're getting more time off for those poor, hard-working single moms!), but destroying someone's life in the process (the small business owner, and ultimately, the hard-working single mom).
Actually the hard working mom will be hit harder than before, thanks to progressives. They are the responsible ones who pick up the workplace slack on superbowl Monday, left by the hungover deadbeats who now can abuse the system to an even greater degree. Progress.
To expand on your point Gordon. If 7 sick days is better than 3 sick days, then why isn't 14 days better than 7? Or 28 better than 14? What criteria is used by progressives to hold the line at 7?
Same with minimum wage for that matter. If a higher minimum wage is good, then let's make the minimum wage $1,000,000 an hour. Theoretically, everybody could work at McDonalds for 1 day, and then retire to the Riviera. The progressives would say that wouldn't make economic sense! I would ask why. Their answer would explain why *any* artificial constraint on wage or sick days makes no sense.
I have a client in the trucking business who already has an attendance problem during deer hunting season and that is sick days without pay.
I think these people seriously want to ruin Ohio as a state.
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