McConnell Demands Liability Protections for Business

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McConnell Demands Liability Protections for Business

April 27, 2020 at 4:35 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said “the next coronavirus relief legislation must include liability protections for business owners who reopen,” Bloomberg reports.

“As he reaffirmed the Senate will return May 4, McConnell said that without protection from lawsuits, business owners could end up with years of legal claims over their efforts to restart the economy.”

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"Says he wasn't reccommending bankruptcy for states" (behind paywall)

[mr_lebowski]

1. Dems better not acquiesce to this without significant concessions ...

To Whit: Nobody will be denied a UI claim, nor will any granted UI claim be withdrawn ... because an employee leaves, or declines to return to after a layoff or furlough, a non-essential position, due to a 'sincerely held' concern over CV-19 exposure.

And that's a bare fucking minimum. Anything less, and I will be royally PISSED.

[Delmette2.0]

4. Employer also must provide PPE for employees.

I'm thinking of barriers for cashiers, face masks and gloves.

Medical protection for employees if they get sick and long term care if this virus fucks up any vital bodily systems.

Always ask for more than you want so you can negotiate down to what you really want. So what else should be added to the list?

[mr_lebowski]

8. Those are excellent additional demands! (nt)

[Dustlawyer]

5. They want immunity from suits when their employees get sick, even if they refused to supply

employees with PPE. They force their politicians to re-open too soon and then want immunity when their employees get sick and/or die. By "force" I mean use their legal bribes (donations) or the threat of not donating, or worse, donating to their opponents.

[mr_lebowski]

7. You are dead-on right (nt)

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Bulls**t.

[angrychair]

3. ABSOLUTELY NOT

This is some serious bullshit. Republicans are trying to give nursing home owners, meatpackers and other businesses blanket immunity for gross negligence on top of creating an environment where employers can force employees back to work and not have to offer basic things like PPE and cleaning supplies because they are immune from all legal implications.

[Cattledog]

6. In Atlanta hair salons are requiring you sign a waiver before they cut or color your hair.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Repubs would like it if nobody could ever sue a busiiness

and the business owners could do whatever they wanted even if it meant killing customers and employees.

[MiniMe]

10. Fine, let them buy the insurance themselves