Everyday Heroes
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I've heard Trump mention them multiple times in his briefings.
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I hate to come over all Elizabeth Warren, but maybe, just maybe, they deserve to be paid a little better?
We have a friend who works in a supermarket as his main job, and it has to be said, he doesn't get treated brilliantly, either before or after Covid. They get sick, they don't get paid.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Everyday Heroes:
I hate to come over all Elizabeth Warren, but maybe, just maybe, they deserve to be paid a little better?
We have a friend who works in a supermarket as his main job, and it has to be said, he doesn't get treated brilliantly, either before or after Covid. They get sick, they don't get paid.
It's a cutthroat business, with razor thin margins. Hard to make a living in the grocery biz.
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If you don't pay people when they get sick, they will come into work when they're sick.
Just saying....
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I agree.
People will abuse it, though, so it has to be limited.
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My feeling is that talk is cheap, and politicians calling them heroes doesn't pay for groceries, although it does bring them some attention.
It would seem to me that if we're going to start increasingly subsidizing and protecting domestic industry, then the food supply industry would be a good place to start. Without food, nothing else matters.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Doctor-Phibes Subsidize so that those working can get either time and a half or double time, and those who are sick get 2/3.
I just pulled that out of my behind, but maybe something like that?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Everyday Heroes:
My feeling is that talk is cheap, and politicians calling them heroes doesn't pay for groceries, although it does bring them some attention.
+1
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Everyday Heroes:
@Doctor-Phibes Subsidize so that those working can get either time and a half or double time, and those who are sick get 2/3.
I just pulled that out of my behind, but maybe something like that?
I think what you do is what many places do, give them so many personal days per year, to be used as vacation or sick. Say, 10-14 days first year of hire, 15-21 days after 5 years, 22-28 days after 10 years.
Problem is, a lot of those guys are part-time, not full-time.
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In some cases they're encouraged to work part time, since that way their employer can avoid giving them as many benefits.
