Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by 7thaccount on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:33PM
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Because it's intentional. Can't have poor people voting in mass.
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Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by Blackthorn on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:38PM
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Election Day holiday wouldn't change that. Poor people work on holidays. Making election day a holiday would change little. Longer voting periods, absentee ballots for everyone like in COVID, these are things that would help.
Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by chongli on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:49PM
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Hey at least they’d get paid holiday overtime in that case!
Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by jacobyoder on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:59PM
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I never got 'overtime' when working on holidays during all my time in food service.
Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by hn8305823 on Monday February 12, 2024 @02:38PM
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A flaw in this theory is that poor people who have jobs often times still have to go to work on federal holidays because of where they work - retail and service jobs for example.
Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by danesparza on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:06PM
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Hell, in Georgia you can't even give poor people water when they are in a long line to vote.
Not kidding: https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/politics/georgia-voting-law-f...
Re:US Employers Brace for 16M Super Bowl Sick Days
by jstarfish on Monday February 12, 2024 @05:19PM
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That was so shitty it's unbelievable.
The law prohibits "gifts" and giving items out for free.
Republicans hate free shit and are all about commerce though. Selling the same items for $0.01 a pop does not appear to be illegal. Set up a "ghost kitchen" out of a car parked around the corner and pretend you're a DoorDasher.