{"id":200617,"date":"2021-02-16T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/16\/of-course-they-are-5\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T20:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:21:00","slug":"of-course-they-are-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/16\/of-course-they-are-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Course They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Pandemic, despite the new variants spreading across the nation, despite the fact that sick workers coming into work further spread the disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyposter.com\/p\/republicans-fight-paid-sick-leave\">Republicans are still trying to kill paid sick leave<\/a>, because if your employer cannot exploit you, they want you dead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Pennsylvania state Rep. Seth Grove introduced legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/legiscan.com\/PA\/bill\/HB46\/2021\">last month<\/a> to block cities and municipalities from imposing paid sick leave requirements on businesses, even as COVID-19 cases are raging throughout his state and the country. Last week, local news media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkdispatch.com\/story\/news\/coronavirus\/2021\/02\/11\/seth-grove-quarantine-after-showing-covid-19-symptoms\/6724658002\/\">reported<\/a> that the Republican lawmaker was now quarantining after exhibiting coronavirus symptoms and awaiting test results.<\/p>\n<p>Grove\u2019s preemption bill is the latest salvo in an ongoing war over stripping worker protections that continues to be fought in statehouses and Congress, even as the coronavirus pandemic spirals out of control. With Democrats in Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/senate-paid-leave-budget-reconciliation_n_601b0ab0c5b67cdd1a7506e5\">preparing to drop<\/a> paid sick leave from President Joe Biden\u2019s first COVID relief bill, potentially leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/11\/29\/millions-of-workers-lose-paid-leave-coronavirus-440793\">87 million workers without protection<\/a>, the responsibility for providing the benefit to workers now falls squarely on states \u2014 the very place the war has been waged for the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>Paid sick leave statutes require businesses to provide employees with medical leave for ailments and injuries. Grove has been pushing for legislation to bar localities from imposing such requirements since 2013. His latest bill, reintroducing the measure, would be retroactive to 2015 \u2014 the year Democratic strongholds Philadelphia and Pittsburgh passed laws mandating paid sick leave.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;F%$# them, and the horse they rode in on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the Pandemic, despite the new variants spreading across the nation, despite the fact that sick workers coming into work further spread the disease, Republicans are still trying to kill paid sick leave, because if your employer cannot exploit you, they want you dead: Pennsylvania state Rep. Seth Grove introduced legislation last month to block &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[975,969,1023,1020,1285,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-evil","category-labor","category-legislation","category-pandemic","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}