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.

Right there with you.
I work 7 days a week for myself. Sometimes there's literally NO PAY if the job becomes too difficult, complicated or there are hidden problems that must be corrected in order to do a competent job.
Maybe it's time for us to work menial jobs for someone else?

Great way to make a point, Sneezy

That brings to mind the USPS. When they were arguing for a budget increase a few years ago, they warned us (Oh! The horror of it all!) that they would have to curtail Saturday postal delivery!

Here's a news flash...I get very little mail that isn't junk, and none of the important stuff is very time critical, so as far as I'm concerned, you can cut it down to once a week and just go ahead and burn anything that's not first class.

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...

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

My mistake for saying "in their minds" when I should have said, "According to their feelings..."

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)

Thank you, William. That's what I said! They paid her the princely sum of $20.

As it turns out, I dont have kids, but even if I did they would come visit me. I couldnt say here after shrugging like that, because I would be imprisoned for not showing sufficient respect for the "system".

Will your kids and their kids move too?

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.

Hire illegals- they appreciate the opportunity to work. Buy from China and other countries until they pass a law forbidding that. Then, just plan on moving out of the USA and "shrugging".

Hire illegal aliens, and forget about entitled americans. The watchword now is to FIRE whenever possible, not HIRE unless its the only way.

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.

Financial and moral bankruptcy "cures" liberalism just as cancer "cures" smoking.
Or, in the words of Ayn Rand: "We can evade reality but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."

This is my main gripe about liberals: I do not dispute their right to spend their money in any manner they desire. I do object to their voting to spend MY money that way. IF this were the one thing that was changed, a large number of government programs would just 'go away'...because they rely on 52% of 55% (average turnout) of the people voting 'someone else's money' to fund them.

Grrrrr.

Jan

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.

Pity that is true...

Jan

your civic responsibility, mama, as the bloated city and county administrations shut down the DMV and Clerk and Recorders offices on Friday due to "budget shortfall." gah!

Then the court system should pay them. It's the court system that is getting their service, you certainly aren't.

That would certainly be an improvement. The reason I pick a hot dog stand and allow a fast food restaurant as an option is that while some businesses can be profitable with a fair amount of sloppiness, or only use highly trained (and highly paid) people, these require discipline and an acute awareness of what things cost and how every penny you spend matters.

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.

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.

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