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Virginia's Error Is Worker's Gain
Too Bad They're Taking It Away
I usually limit myself to national politics, but I found something on CNN that I think everyone can relate to: time off from work.
It seems that the Virginia Legislature was trying to clean some house and clear some old, archaic laws off the books. One of those laws banned working on Sundays. For those lucky few of you who live in Virginia and are not managers at your jobs this means:
You are now entitled to a 24 hour consecutive rest period each week, and you may formally request in writing to take off either Saturday or Sunday as your day of worship. If the business you work for fails to let you have that day, they face a fine of $500 per violation and may have to pay you up to triple your normal wage.
However, Virginia's businesses aren't thrilled at all, the service, retail and manufacturing industries in particular. They thrive on cracking the whip over their workers as often as they can for as little as they can and the Virginia Legislature is falling all over itself to please them. They're trying to pass new laws that would put everything back the way it used to be.
God forbid someone get a regular day off to worship and spend time with their families. I mean, we all know the sky will fall if people are given 24 hours off in a row! Sure.
This was a great step closer to equalizing all workers and promoting lower stress on families and in the workplace. I don't see the CEO's working Sundays, do you? Even though I know it was an accident -imagine that, a legislature thinking of their constituents before big business! - it was a happy one. They should leave well enough alone and take the pat on the back for rejoining the human race, instead of passing more legislation that lets business take advatage of it's workers. Think spin, Virginia, think spin.
I usually limit myself to national politics, but I found something on CNN that I think everyone can relate to: time off from work.
It seems that the Virginia Legislature was trying to clean some house and clear some old, archaic laws off the books. One of those laws banned working on Sundays. For those lucky few of you who live in Virginia and are not managers at your jobs this means:
You are now entitled to a 24 hour consecutive rest period each week, and you may formally request in writing to take off either Saturday or Sunday as your day of worship. If the business you work for fails to let you have that day, they face a fine of $500 per violation and may have to pay you up to triple your normal wage.
However, Virginia's businesses aren't thrilled at all, the service, retail and manufacturing industries in particular. They thrive on cracking the whip over their workers as often as they can for as little as they can and the Virginia Legislature is falling all over itself to please them. They're trying to pass new laws that would put everything back the way it used to be.
God forbid someone get a regular day off to worship and spend time with their families. I mean, we all know the sky will fall if people are given 24 hours off in a row! Sure.
This was a great step closer to equalizing all workers and promoting lower stress on families and in the workplace. I don't see the CEO's working Sundays, do you? Even though I know it was an accident -imagine that, a legislature thinking of their constituents before big business! - it was a happy one. They should leave well enough alone and take the pat on the back for rejoining the human race, instead of passing more legislation that lets business take advatage of it's workers. Think spin, Virginia, think spin.
2 Comments:
This is bunk. Don't try and disguise your socialist rhetoric. this isn't about forcing workers to work seven days a week, its about taking an ancient and outdated law off the books. Unlike many i actually work for a living; my boss does everything he can to avoid me getting overtime. he won't let me work seven days a week.
this has nothing to do with equalizing workers and everything to do with modernizing. remember that a lot of us americans don't go to church and are happy to work on sundays. save your bullshit for the DNC.
people as humans deserve time off.
and you know what? workers will chose to NOT take time off because they are paid so crappily they need the money.
and of course the owners/managers want people to work all the time.
i say UPDATE the law and keep it.
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