These republicans in the US House of Representatives are at it again. Last week they passed a craftily worded bill to screw American Workers and to undo worker related rights that have been in existance for multiple decades. House members in Tenessee originated this bill, that narrowly passed the US house with mostly, but not entirely - Republican house members voting for it's passage. Here's more. The Working Families Flexibility Act would instead supposedly allow employees to choose compensatory time instead of overtime pay when they worked more than 40 hours a week. This means, of course, that it would apply only to workers who get paid by the hour — those at the bottom of the wage scale. They’re the least likely to have paid leave benefits. So the bill might seem a boon to them. But it isn’t — mainly because these workers wouldn’t really have the choice the bill seems to give them. Hypothetically, they could choose to continue getting overtime pay instead of opting for comp. time. We have to assume that many would, since $10.00 an hour — the average wage for workers without paid sick leave — is barely enough to lift a family of three above the federal poverty line. But, as Working America argues, employers would have the upper hand. They could give workers incentives to choose comp. time, e.g., a better shift. They could pressure them. True, the bill specifically prohibits employers from intimidating, threatening or coercing employees to accept comp. time instead of overtime pay. But, as the National Women’s Law Center notes, we have more than enough evidence that many employers pay no mind to provisions in our labor laws that are supposed to protect low-wage workers. Even workers who willingly chose comp. time couldn’t necessarily use it when they needed it. An employer could legally deny a request by saying it “unduly disrupts … operations” or grant it “within a reasonable period,” rather than for the particular day(s) or hour(s) requested.
So much for taking a day off when your kid is sick — or her school declares a snow day and there’s no one else to care for her. So much for knowing you can get a few hours off when you need to get legal protection from an abuser. The Working Families Flexibility Act has another implication for low-wage workers. It really is, as Working America says, a “job killer” because it enables employers to get all needed work done on the cheap. At this point, as the Fair Labor Standards Act intended, employers have a financial incentive to hire more workers — or offer some part-timers full-time jobs — when they need to get more work done because overtime is half again as costly as straight wage. Comp. time obviously does away with the incentive. So here you are, working mothers. You can’t be sure you’ll generally work only eight hours a day and thus have a little time to get to the grocery store, help your kids with their homework, etc.
You can’t be sure you’ll have time off when you need it — or enough time off for a major life event like childbirth because your employer can, at any time, convert all but 80 hours of your comp. time to pay.
You can’t work overtime to make ends meet. And if, like 7.6 million workers, you’ve got a part-time job, though you’d like full-time work, you’re probably stuck with the hours you’ve got.
If House Republicans hadn’t already made “flexibility” a suspect word, this bill would do it.
OJ Simpson was in that
Las Vegas court again and explained for the first time the circumstances of
that armed robbery. He was told by
friends insistently that “People are selling all your mother’s stuff. What are you going to do about it? You better come and see if you can salvage
anything that’s left”. OJ said he would be going to Los Angeles and couldn’t
make it to New York where his stuff was.
But they he was called back and informed that ALL of his stuff was in
Las Vegas. OJ said ‘I’ll be there”. But of course he took five of his buddies
along with him and they all had guns. OJ
now claims he had no idea. But there is
a tape of OJ making threatening remarks at the spot like “Nobody leave this
room”. OJ claims his attorney on the last
outing strongly advised him not to testify because “Their evidence is so weak
it will never stand up in court”. Now OJ
wants a new trial partially because “Those attorneys took an awful lot of money
right out of my pension- with little to show for it”. This event occurred six years ago and he’s
already served several years of his 33 year term, or whatever. Of course everyone is saying how “tired” and
beaten down OJ Simpson looks now. Some
expert in psychology and such advised that even if OJ should get a new trial
and win he’ll need extensive counseling because he doesn’t know how to live his
life and to “process information”. The
guy accused OJ of being a narcicist.
It’s the “Mrs Grenville” adage of “The courts may acquit you but society
never will”.
According to Mike Meloy - House member Michelle Bachman wants to move to Oregon because they have an anti gay marriage provision in their state Constitution. There is a running gag that husband Marcus Bachman is gay, and that she'll leave him behind in Minisota. Of course I hope Michelle knows that in Oregon they have legal physician assisted suicide. That's almost a worse provision than gay marriage. We'll just have to wait and see.
Various ethical problems are necessarily ignored with the Soap opera plot. For instance, I've noted that one person to Not Yet ever have a meeting with "Father Eric" is Will Horton. Since Salem is such a religious city shouldn't Will be a logical candidate as a good Catholic to talk to a Priest about his gayness. Eric might also say that God admires people of their word, too. People are trying to parse President's words when it comes to Bengazi saying that "terrorism" does not necessarily to Al Qaeda terrorism. For those who would plead the blood of the cross for their salvation - - if they take Jesus' words literally - - then if you are forgiven a large debt owed- - but think youre free as a now Clensed Agent- - to nit pick on the debts of others to you, you're in for a nasty surprise because Jesus concludes that in such a case "The lord of the house will cut that servant to pieces" or some such thing. And if we take Jesus at his Word, as I presume we are supposed to, then there are any number of people who Jesus didn't seem the least bit interested in forgiving. I like to nail down my facts before I go wagging accusatory fingers at anybody- - no matter the crime. Often there are other "reasonable explanations" for the same Events viewed in a different perspective. First of all Kate comes in and explodes at Stephano for murdering Raphael out of sheer possessive vengeance because he wants her all to himself. And then you have Elvis. He has two motives- like killing two birds with one stone. First he gets rid of Nick like his beloved wife to be asked him to do. Stephano Di Mira put Samantha in her place yesterday. But the other reason is that Elvis sees Raphael as a continuing threat to his own relation with Samantha and is in morbid fear he’ll go back to her. He had the new “FBI” shirt on him that Johnny wanted, because he had out-grown the other one Raphael gave him. And Johnny indicated he preferred living with Samantha and Raphael than here at the Mansion. But looking from Nick’s side of the thing - - Will Horton has broken his Word to him – twice. First he broke his Word saying he was the father of the baby. He didn’t have to do that. In fact if he’d kept silent - - all he would have done would be to make Chad look like a hysterical ranter, because he knew nothing. But - - how dense can Will be to not figure out that Nick wants Will and his mother off his case all the time. “Just let me and Gabriel form our own family without outside interference”. You really have to be pretty dense - - not to know that continuing to lobby threats of a verbal nature- - or for Samantha to threaten Nick with a gun - - this does not constitute “leaving us alone”. Now there is no reason why Nick shouldn’t just go to Roman and say “I hesitated to tell what I knew but my conscience was gnawing at me- - and I know that as a good citizen I owe it to society to report crimes. I had made a deal with Will but since he never kept up his end of the bargain, there is no reason on God’s green earth to keep up mine, especially when it’s wrong.”
Fire is a treacherous thing as we know all to well in California. Fire can spring up rapidly or suddenly change its mind, like a woman. And yet in all Fire does, it does it without a Will. It can be argued that in a sentense define what separates the Dead from the Living - - it could well be that the Living have a Will. They are sensient beings. Some people would extinguish the one thing in Man (or a major thing) that separates him from inaminate non living things. The difference between a Man and most other animals, is that other Animals arrive at "decisions as to what they are going to do in any given situation" a whole lot quicker than does a human being. Awareness for the most part is a linear thing. They say the human brain "technically" can only process one bit of information at any given Instant. It may be good as multi-tasking but still it has to take that split second to shift gears and move to the other topic. If one person were simotaniously aware of all possible time lines of the Universe at once- - it's questionable whether any notable Events - - would even stand out in the mind at all. So how is the Universe organized. Is one side of the mass continuoum labled Living - - and the other labeled Inimate Material? It would be really funny if the chemicals in a test tube being combined would "feel themselves coming into existance". Some will argue that God is Alive - AND also argue that God is none other than the Collective Consciousness of us all. That's an interesting theory.
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