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- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Family Leave Bill
- Message-ID: <44048@zygot.ati.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:27:29 GMT
- References: <9301222329.AA29961@client.its.rpi.edu>
- Organization: Green Hills and Cows
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- In article <9301222329.AA29961@client.its.rpi.edu> buckmr@rpi.edu (Ron Buckmire) writes:
-
- > The family leave bill would establish a national policy for Millions
- >of working families. The bill... which would affect businesses with 50
- >employees or more... would allow a worker to take up to 12 weeks of
- >UNpaid leave per year for the birth or adoption of a child... or to
- >attend to a seriously ill family member.
- >
- >Does anyone know how this ``family member'' is defined?
-
- I have some real concerns about all of this. Does this open a new
- mechanism for a dual standard regarding GLB and "family" types? Is this
- going to end up a perk for Quayle-style family people and no one else
- need apply?
-
- And even beyond that, why do only people who work for large companies
- get to play? There are millions out there who work for small, Ma and Pa
- operations. Are they less needing of family leave? And if the size of
- the company is involved, why is this less of a problem for larger
- companies than smaller ones? Key people are key people; or is the
- premise that large companies are inherently overstocked with personel?
-
- At the risk of taking considerable heat, let me suggest that if a
- company can do without the services of someone for three months, paid
- or unpaid, there might be some question whether that person was
- necessary at all to begin with. A programmer or designer of a critical
- project could really hold a company up with this one, no?
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