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This is the problem with people who think others can afford their desires. Who is going to pay for this? People seem to think businesses were started to make the employee rich.......it is so you can have a job!
No, businesses were not started so people can have jobs.
The company I work for just upped their new hire starting vacation time from 2 weeks to 3. If they didn't offer any vacation time, its likely that I would have kept looking when I found this job long ago. That is how it works and how it should work. Competition works much better without any government intervention.
What a deceptive, useless article that is.
I would expect no less from "Marketwatch", hmm...
take a guess whose interests they represent ?
What the shill author doesn't tell his readers is a
most important fact he didn't include:
Those who "don't use" their vacation days move them
forward. In the public sector and highest-end private
sectors, employees (mostly union) are allowed to
carry forward their time off. This is a regular practice
among all public employees who are unionized. Also,
some of your high-end private employees choose to take
a monetary equivalent instead of time, because they don't
need a physical rest from their non-physical jobs.
I can assure you that nobody "throws away" vacation time.
The author should be berated for so grossly misrepresenting
the facts ! Don't listen to these people. They are liars.
Considering that the US has the least vacation time of any developed country in the world and the only country that doesnt guarantee workers at least some vacation time, do you support two weeks of mandatory vacation for all full-time workers in the US?
What a deceptive, useless article that is.
I would expect no less from "Marketwatch", hmm...
take a guess whose interests they represent ?
What the shill author doesn't tell his readers is a
most important fact he didn't include:
Those who "don't use" their vacation days move them
forward. In the public sector and highest-end private
sectors, employees (mostly union) are allowed to
carry forward their time off. This is a regular practice
among all public employees who are unionized. Also,
some of your high-end private employees choose to take
a monetary equivalent instead of time, because they don't
need a physical rest from their non-physical jobs.
I can assure you that nobody "throws away" vacation time.
The author should be berated for so grossly misrepresenting
the facts ! Don't listen to these people. They are liars.
It's not about the motives or the shill of an author (I didn't care about that, and don't necessarily believe that the biggest reason is fear)...the fact remains that for whatever reason, 55% of Americans are not taking their vacation time.
Considering that the US has the least vacation time of any developed country in the world and the only country that doesnt guarantee workers at least some vacation time, do you support two weeks of mandatory vacation for all full-time workers in the US?
I generally believe in strong labor laws, but we don't yet have mandated maternity and paternity leave, mandated sick leave, or acceptable laws on overtime pay for salaried employees. We also engage in trade agreements with nations that have lax labor laws.
I think vacation should be a lower priority than rectifying all those.
Passing laws is now considered an act of violence?
Why are you so sure that all workers voluntarily agree to certain terms and conditions in order to get a job? Many people need to work, even if that means working for a pittance.
I see now where the right wing is going with this, and it's disgusting.
First they want to strip any form of financial aid to people, and at the same time do away with the minimum wage, forcing people to work for peanuts, making slaves of us all, except of course for the wealthy elite.
Diabolical and evil.
Yes laws = violence
I don't know where the right is going but the left always goes to the same place and that is to use government violence to take from one person and give to another. Shame on you.
I'm pretty sure no cop is going to walk up to you and smack you on the head for jaywalking.
'Violence' is a bit dramatic.
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