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Mandating is not a good idea because of action re action. Look at Obamacare and the law calling 30 hours full time and the huge spike in part time jobs. The mandate for sick leave would have the same results since there would have to be a cut off in what hours apply. I am sure the law is not going to mandate sick pay for someone who works just 10 hours a week.
I can see what my employer would do they would split vacation and holiday pay in half and shift those hours to sick leave. And thus be in compliance with the law and me no better off. Those type of mandates look good on paper and then there is reality.
Mandating is not a good idea because of action re action. Look at Obamacare and the law calling 30 hours full time and the huge spike in part time jobs. The mandate for sick leave would have the same results since there would have to be a cut off in what hours apply. I am sure the law is not going to mandate sick pay for someone who works just 10 hours a week.
I can see what my employer would do they would split vacation and holiday pay in half and shift those hours to sick leave. And thus be in compliance with the law and me no better off. Those type of mandates look good on paper and then there is reality.
Or they could mesh vacation and sick time in one big pot calling the new time "paid time off".
every time the government sets up a mandate for something that business has to do, it harms the business AND the employees of said business. mandating paid time off in any manner is expensive. if a business chooses to offer paid time off, that is their business, but the government has NO business forcing employers to give paid time off.
If business could be trusted to be responsible stewards of the power they implicitly have over their employee's lives, then government wouldn't be necessary. As long as business is operated as if employees are tissues to be sneezed into and then discarded, government has to bridge that gap, striking a moral balance between the needs of business and the needs of employees.
Or they could mesh vacation and sick time in one big pot calling the new time "paid time off".
Most employers do this now anayway.
Mine does. You get a week for every 1500 hrs of work accured.
In reality ,I only get 3 weeks of Pto every year.
Get sick? Oh well, use a Pto day.
So if you are sick a week,you just lost a week of potential vacation time.
I would rather have it broken down like my last job:
2 weeks vacation
10 sick days per year.
5 personal days a year.
You get more time with the above than you do with Pto.
Last edited by jerseygal4u; 08-21-2013 at 07:11 AM..
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