Obama was mandatory paid sick leave and family leave

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Just what we need to get the economy going. more mandatory costs for employers.

Lawmakers Push to Expand Paid Leave - WSJ.com

The Healthy Families Act, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D., Mass.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D., Conn.) and backed by the president-elect, would require employers with 15 or more workers to provide seven paid days for their own or a family member's illness.

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The president-elect also wants to expand the 1993 family-leave law. Currently, employees of companies with 50 or more workers can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to tend to newborn and adopted children, sick family members or the workers' own medical conditions. But under this law, about half the work force isn't eligible. Mr. Obama would extend the mandate to employers with 25 workers and cover more purposes, including children's school needs and the care of a wider range of family members.

The biggest political hot potato of all -- paid family leave -- would be passed to the states. The president-elect has proposed giving states $1.5 billion in incentives to start paid family-leave programs similar to California's, which uses the state's temporary-disability-insurance fund to provide up to six weeks' paid family leave
 
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Unreal . . . but you knew stuff like this was coming. For his sake and ours, I hope he doesn't try to "fix" everything immediately and kill what is left of the economy. The temptation is going to be there for him to ram legislation through in the first two years.
 
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i knew this was coming when they first came out with family leave bill. it is really bad. people will abuse this like nother else.
 
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tennessee law allow 16 weeks of leave. people would have 4 months of "vacation" for the most part. that would be amazingly bad
 
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joevol320 said:
i knew this was coming when they first came out with family leave bill. it is really bad. people will abuse this like nother else.
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As usual, you have no idea as to what you are talking about. You can't just say, "I am taking leave", and get it. Even right now, there has to be official documentation from the physician of record to take personal or family leave. There will be additional red tape associated with this type of leave.

This is just another item for you right wingers to pick at and spew fear, despite the facts of the matter.
 
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We are way smaller than the 50 for the FMLA, but we folow the FMLA as a matter of conscience.

And yes, I'd like my cookine now.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
that goes without saying. Have you not noticed the incredible transition team and smooth means by which the Obama team is taking charge?
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truly impressive. if only the racists in the country would finally lose their hate. then everyone would be behind our new president.
 
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lawgator1 said:
oof, cookie. As in, "You want a cookie?"
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that makes much more sense. I was trying to use the word cooking somehow and just couldn't make it work.

I'm not typically that slow in figuring it out, but given some of the off the wall things you post......
 
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BigPapaVol said:
that makes much more sense. I was trying to use the word cooking somehow and just couldn't make it work.

I'm not typically that slow in figuring it out, but given some of the off the wall things you post......
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Well, in fairness to you, given some of the off the wall things I post I can see how you would have been led down the primrose path of thinking I had somehow incorporated cooking into the politics thread.

Then again, you should have quickly realized I am not that clever. So shame on you.
 
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I'm still waiting to hear the first late night joke about Obama. They have made their living off of Bush and Clinton, now I wonder if they'll ever bash Obama.
 
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truefan said:
As usual, you have no idea as to what you are talking about. You can't just say, "I am taking leave", and get it. Even right now, there has to be official documentation from the physician of record to take personal or family leave. There will be additional red tape associated with this type of leave.

This is just another item for you right wingers to pick at and spew fear, despite the facts of the matter.
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not to mention an employer who is forced to pay an employee for not doing any work. Add to it the increased corporate taxes, increased capital gains taxes, and the Employee Free Choice act and you've a recipe that spells disaster for hundreds of medium sized companies.
 
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truefan said:
As usual, you have no idea as to what you are talking about. You can't just say, "I am taking leave", and get it. Even right now, there has to be official documentation from the physician of record to take personal or family leave. There will be additional red tape associated with this type of leave.

This is just another item for you right wingers to pick at and spew fear, despite the facts of the matter.
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The only situation in which I see the government justifying a claim for mandatory paid leave is in those instances where the employer becomes injured or ill in the line of duty.

I could care less about "official documentation from the physician" if the injury or illness occurred outside the line of duty.
 
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I've never understood how everyone having some protection in case a family member or their self gets sick is wrong.
 
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TENNFOLD1974 said:
I've never understood how everyone having some protection in case a family member or their self gets sick is wrong.
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it's not wrong, but why should an employer be forced to pay the wages of an employee they're not getting any production out of?
 
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There's a lot of compassion in this society and it's generally voluntary. Compassion at the barrel of the government's gun shouldn't be tolerated and that's all mandatory paid FMLA coverage is.
 
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