It's really annoying when politicians buy votes with money that I have to pay. Their arguments about what employees 'deserve' have no connection with the fact that the only way we can pay employees is that employees are doing work which brings in the money. I know politicians can borrow without limit but we have to make ends meet -- and dare I say it .. make a profit? (I know that's evil, but only by being profitable can you survived down times).

Proposed Constitutional Amendment 28:

No candidate may run for President, Vice President, Senator, or Representative unless they can document that they have run a hot dog stand or fast food restaurant profitably for at least 1 year.

Whats next?
Bankruptcy for all the small businesses and collapsing sales due to higher prices for big businesses (passed along from higher costs.)
The US dollar will come crashing down like the Berlin Wall, and there will be NO middle class because there will be so few jobs.
What do you expect from letting an irrational looter run the biggest organization in the world?

I once had an employee go our on maternity leave. She swore she was coming back at the end. I stayed in touch with her over the period she was out because we all cared about her. We even let her continue the use of her company car and gas card while she was out. After her leave ended, she showed up the day she was to get back to work, handed us the keys to her company car, and resigned.
The law is set up to protect everyone except the producers. Just like in Atlas.

A couple of weeks ago one of my employees was called to jury duty. Luckily she only had to do one day, but she came back to inform me that the judge told them that their employers had to pay them because they should not be "punished" for jury duty.
Well, how the hell about me? How am I supposed to pay someone for an indefinite time for producing nothing? It made me furious. No worry- just "punish" the employer, and if the employer says she can't do it, in the words of Rand, "Oh, you'll find a way!"

It is the Saul Alinsky way..........overwhelm the system! It will never fly and if it does others will lose hours or their job. Hence, Liberalism is a Mental Disorder with no know cure.

to quote a famous ships captain "beam me up scotttie, there's no intelligent life here"

In their minds, capitalism represents theft of land, rape of the earth and subjucation of the conquered. Looting from capitalism and capitalists, then, represents turnaround and fair play.
And when they have reverted to living in caves and fighting for scraps of what once was, they will tell rich stories around glowing campfires of the glorious time when they defeated the rich.
If we let them.

Saltydog, I feel like I AM from another planet!,

I DEMAND PAID LEAVE. I had to sweat all day riding little kids around on ponies in the blazing sun! That's hard work and I should get time off, The boss should pay me for doing nothing for a while.

Wait a minute... I'm the boss. Oh well...

So this is why it pays to employ illegal aliens- they appreciate the opportunity to work and dont (yet) believe they have rights to get paid for not working. American workers are not good workers in the competitive worldwide economy now, and entitled minorities (like entitled blacks) are terrible workers. Small businesses simply cant afford all these socialist expenses, so they hire illegals and get as much as possible of the work done overseas.

In society, as with raising teenagers, you get what you tolerate.

It's all in who is going to pick up the tab.. Is the business owner required? If so, should they lower their wage just in case they're required to take leave? Should the "government" (I prefer taxpayers, personally) who can't even pay their bills as it is? Should the courts pay the lost salary instead of some paltry sum? I mean there are civic duties that are the costs of living in a free society. I personally think that the person who is on trial should be liable for the jurors to be paid minimum wage for their time. If they are on public assistance and not employed, that amount should be deducted from the benefits they receive. If the employer WANTS to compensate lost wages for jury duty, it should be their decision, but not compelled. If someone is retired or not working but not on "government assistance" they should be able to keep that money tax free. I also think that if you are found NOT guilty of the crime that you're tried for, that party should bear all costs of the jury. (Yes, I believe in Tort reform)

I have little patience for this. Unpaid leave, maybe. Paid leave, absolutely not. I am speaking as someone who would definitely qualify for paid family leave...now and many times throughout the last twentytwo years.

How do you know that they're not selling tickets presently? It would be categorized as a comedy-drama. Once again, Shakespeare's elf, Puck is quotable: "Lord, what fools these mortals be."

Sounds like Obama has been taking too many cues from Europe.

There is no "right" to paid leave. There is a right to leave - that's about it.

saltydog you can get paid to sit at home with your dogs, just sigh up for welfare.

The socialist presidebt's "O" up in a corner symbol explains all there is any need to know about what lurked behind clicking on to that link.
Well, it does to the average Gulcher.
There are voters who view Nancy Pelosi giddily grinning from ear-to-ear over any given topic as a good thing.