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FORCING EMPLOYERS TO PAY

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Neal Boortz
@ November 4, 2009 8:36 AM Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBacks (0)

The Democrats are up to it again ... using the imperial federal government to tell private companies how to run their businesses. California Rep. George Miller has proposed new federal legislation that would force employers to provide paid time off for any workers that are told to stay home when they are sick. The excuse at hand is the Swine Flu. The real excuse? Labor unions ... and power.

Do you think that there is any way that our founding fathers .. the men who wrote our Constitution ... would have been able to conceive of a government powerful enough to force a private sector employer to pay someone for not working?

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  • comment
    Out of curiousity. Does Neal get paid days off when sick (i.e. sick time)? If so this little rant sounds like hypocrisy.
    By Steve Odoms @ 11/04/09 02:04:39 PMreport abuse
  • Some Founding Fathers owned slaves...
    so I doubt they thought that the government should force a private slave owner to pay the slave if they didn't work when sick. I could be wrong.

    Times were very different then. I'm sure they never imagined a Slave Union either.
    By Patriot til' Death @ 11/04/09 12:30:21 PMreport abuse
  • Do you think that there is any way that our founding fathers .. the men who wrote our Constitution ... would have been able to conceive of a government powerful enough to force a private sector employer to pay someone for not working?
    I'm not saying we should force businesses to pay workers for not working, but our government has set the terrible pressident by paying farmers not to plant.
    By unstable @ 11/04/09 12:23:42 PMreport abuse
  • Michael's comment
    Rich. Michael (obviously never self employed) doesn't understand. If you have one employee sick and they decide to work the odds of making EVERYONE sick greatly increases. If you suddenly have 5 (instead of 1) employees sick then you have a real manpower issue.
    SO, there you go Michael- you are the one costing your employer money. You should not be paid for NOT working. You should stay at your home with your sickness so you don't cost your employer any more money.
    If I had an employee that had your attitude you would be fired for any reason reasonable.
    By Kirk @ 11/04/09 11:43:02 AMreport abuse
  • Re: Twistedsaint “Comparing Brian Fantana to any one of the founding fathers is like comparing a braindead dung beetle to Einstein. “
    Hey,hey,hey! There's a lot of braindead dung beetle's that would be insulted by that comparison!

    After all, they've figured out how to roll dung.
    It's questionable that BF has figured anything out yet – maybe throw dung?
    By ACE @ 11/04/09 11:20:57 AMreport abuse
  • Really Brian?
    Comparing Brian Fantana to any one of the founding fathers is like comparing a braindead dung beetle to Einstein.
    By Twistedsaint @ 11/04/09 10:47:09 AMreport abuse
  • @Brian Fantana
    Brian,you have a car,vacuum and DVD? You lucky son of a bitch!
    By J Cooper @ 11/04/09 10:36:42 AMreport abuse
  • Will the last private employer in the state of California please turn off the lights when you leave.
    John Galt has left the Building.
    By ACE @ 11/04/09 10:18:54 AMreport abuse
  • FORCING EMPLOYERS TO PAY
    It would appear to me that if an employer "tells an employee to stay home when they are sick" even though the employee wants to come in and produce, that employee should be paid. This is a different situation from an employee who calls in sick as an excuse to get a day off, that employee should not be paid unless his employment agreement calls for it.
    In the first instance, the employer is making a business decision to have his employee take the day off. The employer has assigned where the employee is to spend his shift, and, in many cases, may allow the employee to take home work, or will at least expect that employee to catch up on his work when he/she is well.
    By Michael @ 11/04/09 09:47:12 AMreport abuse
  • who is going to pay me
    Who is going to pay me the small business owner? It is going to come out of my pocket. Not much left there.
    By Mark @ 11/04/09 09:46:28 AMreport abuse
  • Founding Fathers
    Do you think there is any chance the founding fathers could work a car, a vacuum, or a DVD player? HAHAH I am smarter than the founding fathers
    By Brian Fantana @ 11/04/09 09:38:03 AMreport abuse
  • Do you think that there is any way that our founding fathers .. the men who wrote our Constitution ... would have been able to conceive of a government powerful enough to force a private sector employer to pay someone for not working?
    The Sociocrats will probably answer with, "Well, California wasn't even part of the nation when the founders were alive"
    By Randy @ 11/04/09 09:29:20 AMreport abuse
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