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DirkGently

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10. It should be a no-brainer right? -- Sick people stay home.

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 03:17 PM

Apr 2013

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The supposed objection is of course that people will game the system and take (gasp!) illicit days off. The flipside, though, is that healthcare, service, restaurant, and transportation workers are FORCED to come in sick. Here in FL, that means Disney workers (Disney's a big opponent of sick leave) Darden restaurant workers, and transportation like taxis and buses, as well as nursing home employees (imagine the destruction one flu-ridden elder care worker could unintentially inflict).

Not to mention the proven increase in workplace injuries when people are sick or doped up with an illness.

It's an easy call to make, but the level of screaming, skull-popping resistance here in Orange County has been amazing. These businesses and their gov't cronies don't just think they own the state -- they're certain of it.

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PLEASE HELP: Efforts to Deliver 'Kill Shot' to Paid Sick Leave Tied to ALEC -- HuffPo [View all] nashville_brook Apr 2013 OP

btw -- I understand that Alan Grayson is introducing sick time in the House nashville_brook Apr 2013 #1

Glad he's trying, but this effort to evicerate local government DirkGently Apr 2013 #13

Your friendly neighborhood GOP DirkGently Apr 2013 #2

ALEC sock puppets are out in force nashville_brook Apr 2013 #3

More slash and burn Newest Reality Apr 2013 #4

kochsterbation xtraxritical Apr 2013 #7

FL republicans are Kochsuckers. nashville_brook Apr 2013 #16

Thanks for posting this. lark Apr 2013 #5

thank you -- ! nashville_brook Apr 2013 #8

They do extrapolate, though ... DirkGently Apr 2013 #11

Press Release from Citizens for a Greater Orange County on HB 655 passing nashville_brook Apr 2013 #24

ALEC's 2011 annual conference in New Orleans KamaAina Apr 2013 #6

I work in a hospital. Not in Florida. SheilaT Apr 2013 #9

It should be a no-brainer right? -- Sick people stay home. DirkGently Apr 2013 #10

Do we even need to mention that SheilaT Apr 2013 #17

Jesus. I knew a fairly big-time lawyer whose DirkGently Apr 2013 #19

in Florida, workers in nursing homes have the fewest protectections nashville_brook Apr 2013 #15

K & R & AzDar Apr 2013 #12

being debated on House floor now -- watch here nashville_brook Apr 2013 #14

Is this a good issue for progressive candidates to run on? Generic Other Apr 2013 #18

here's a great piece from Salon | Paid sick leave: The next liberal litmus test? nashville_brook Apr 2013 #20

It s a no-brainer. There's no justifying making people work sick. DirkGently Apr 2013 #21

meme-bomb nashville_brook Apr 2013 #23

We simply can't afford for workers NOT to have sick leave. DirkGently Apr 2013 #25

+1 nashville_brook Apr 2013 #31

k&r nt steve2470 Apr 2013 #22

Florida is already a hell hole for workers.... Sekhmets Daughter Apr 2013 #26

the rethugs have flown under the radar here...at least in comparison to the WI fiasco nashville_brook Apr 2013 #27

They're terrified someone might make a mild improvement. DirkGently Apr 2013 #28

I am beyond even attempting Sekhmets Daughter Apr 2013 #29

they're making bank -- it's really that simple. nashville_brook Apr 2013 #30