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Re:Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid... by Workaccount2 on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:13AM (#33831515)
The rail workers have 4? 5? weeks of paid leave already. The issue at hand is "sick days" i.e. days off on short or no notice.
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Re:Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid... by tomrod on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:16AM (#33831574)
The right systems term for this is system slack. There isn't enough system slack built into the PSR models to account for real life needs.
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Re:Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid... by thatfrenchguy on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:43AM (#33831991)
Yes, which are clearly important ones: you don’t want someone with an infectious disease to come to work because otherwise they couldn’t pay their mortgage.
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Re:Why America’s Railroads Refuse to Give Their Workers Paid... by orwin on Friday December 02, 2022 @11:09AM (#33832373)
They don't have weekends. They have 90 days off, while the average worker have 104, without paid leave.
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