I remember many times when I coworker would come to work sick...like death warmed over sick...and I would tell them to go home. Nothing we were doing was important enough to come to work *that* sick and it sure didn't warrant getting me sick as well. That is what sick days are for, silly.
What? Florida is blocking actual sick days? As in you have to go to work sick? You have got to be kidding me. Are legislators (who happen to be Republican) so swayed by big business that they are willing to force sick people to go to work or stay at work for fear of losing their job otherwise? Apparently.
As attempts to dehumanize the workplace go, few could be more sadistic than forcing workers to come to work sick, but that's precisely what the Florida legislature and Governor Rick Scott recently did.
This throwback to the Satanic mills era of industrial relations came in response to a successful petition by 50,000 voters in Orange County, Florida, to place on the ballot an initiative to guarantee a certain number of paid sick days to all workers in the county. The state bill nullifies the ballot measure by blocking local governments from enacting any standards on sick leave, voter preferences be damned.
Governor Scott and the state legislature did this at the behest of some of Florida's largest employers, including Disney World, which might otherwise have suffered the inconvenience of employees being able to go to the doctor without losing their jobs. Ostensibly, legislators say it's to maintain "uniform regulatory standards" throughout the state. But Florida legislators have never been particularly devoted to uniformity in other legal matters.
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