Work Reform

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A place to discuss positive changes that can make work more equitable, and to vent about current practices. We are NOT against work; we just want the fruits of our labor to be recognized better.

Our Philosophies:

All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
Income inequality is the main cause of lower living standards.
Workers must join together and fight back for what is rightfully theirs.
We must not be divided and conquered. Workers gain the most when they focus on unifying issues.

Our Goals

Higher wages for underpaid workers.
Better worker representation, including but not limited to unions.
Better and fewer working hours.
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
Organizing and supporting political causes and campaigns that put workers first.

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Petition to pass paid leave nationwide delivered to all members of congress (abcnews.go.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The United States is one of seven countries globally that does not have any guaranteed form of paid leave, the petition states.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago (1 children)

To which they all replied…. “Heh. That’s cute.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I may be uneducated because I've never taken advantage of it, but isn't FMLA a form of this? I had coworkers disappear for 3 - 6 months for roughly 2/3 their pay and they don't get fired because of FMLA.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Not really, where I am full-time employees are legally entitled to a minimum 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays at employer's discretion) and that's still low compared to some of the better European countries. My understanding is that the US does not require any paid time off and this petition is to fix that.

3-6 months maternity leave at 66% pay isn't necessarily great either, here we have 52 weeks maternity leave starting at 90% pay for 6 weeks then the lower of 90% pay or a fixed weekly amount for another 33 weeks. Returning to work in the first 6 months entitles you to the same job, in the second 6 months an equivalent job (equal pay, location, etc). There's also 1-2 weeks paternity leave for other involved adults (eg father or partner) and the option to share up to 50 weeks of the maternity leave entitlement with them. And those are just legal minimums, for instance my work offers much better paternity leave than just a couple of weeks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Idk, seems to me that the continuation of pay was your company being nice:

The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/fmla

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

FMLA has no pay guarantee. You can't lose your job due to a qualified event (for now, just wait until the supreme Court gets its hands on it, I guess)