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Opinion
| 3/3/2010 10:00:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article | A Visit From Another Planet
At a time when Vermont businesses, large and small, are struggling to stay afloat, three lawmakers want to hang another expense around their necks. H-382, sponsored by Reps. Edwards of Brattleboro, Fisher of Lincoln, and Poirier of Barre City, all Democrats, would require employers of even one employee to provide 56 hours annually of paid leave to each employee to take care of his/her own health needs, from a headache to a blister on the foot. That's seven days of paid sick leave, or about a week and a half.
These guys must have departed their senses or have come from another planet where common sense is outlawed and lunacy is celebrated. Vermont has just been named the fourth hardest state in which to do business. Our Senate just crushed the promise of fixed, reliable, low-cost electricity by killing off Vermont Yankee. Shap Smith is doing his best to make the House do the same, and these three representatives think it's the right time to invent a brand-new and expensive business benefit and force our smallest, most beleaguered businesses to pay for it.
Where do these palookas live? Are they trying to sink below the three states that are worse to do business in than Vermont? Do they want to be the most anti-business state in the union? Have they any idea at all how insulting their attitudes are to potential new business arrivals or expansions in Vermont?
This kind of inane political action and the mindless arrogance behind it could make the most optimistic Pollyanna in the world despair. To the people of Brattleboro, Lincoln and Barre City: Run, don't walk, to the polls to vote these three out of office before they get lucky and pull off one of these lunacies.
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Reader Comments
Posted: Monday, March 08, 2010
Article comment by:
Laurie
I don't see why you find this bill wrong...have you ever had the flu..or have a sick kid and have to worry about being fired because you have to take off..most people would not abuse this and it is right in line with what most employers offer..I usually don't find much to agree with the Democrats on but this sounds like it is a good thing for the employees in VT. There will always be some that abuses the system but I think most people would appreciate just knowing if the needed to they could take off and not lose any pay or their job..JMHO
Posted: Thursday, March 04, 2010
Article comment by:
david austin
i think its about time vt does something for the workers. do you realize that businesses invt do not have to give breaks at all. the fed system does.
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