Our
View: Senate bill raises business liability
It's
hard to balance the complaints of businesses
to the joy of workers, especially in California
it seems. One group is happy, the other
despondent. And supposedly the give and
take should benefit the greater good, but
sometimes the businesses seem like a bunch
of babies, crying every time they have to
give something up. If there weren't still
profits they would have given up long ago.
According to them, they'll just leave the
state and then everything will be fine.
Now
Senate Bill 796 will allow disgruntled workers
to sue their bosses for violations of wage
and overtime law. Business leaders and representatives
are outraged. But if there weren't a bunch
of businesses in violation, they probably
wouldn't be so angry about it.
These
kind of empty arguments should be what wake
the public up to what's really going on.
The more the GOP and Californian Republicans
convince the everyday working man to defend
the businesses for them, the less they will
be accountable. Employers think that their
employees are so happy to have jobs that
they don't have to compensate them according
to California law. But businesses should
realize that by making an issue out of SB
796 they only reveal their guilt.
This
is yet another testament to the growing
need of protection for workers. As the businesses
and Republicans try to repeal the laws that
have been passed in the last hundred years
through their blood and sweat, everyday
workers struggle to afford subsistence level
expenses as the cost of living soars and
businesses want to pay less.
You
would think that employers would appreciate
this. You always here businessmen and the
fat cats' complaining about "the cost
of doing business," but the cost of
doing business always comes with a profit.
On the other hand the cost of living almost
always only comes with more and more expenses
and a cheap funeral at the end.
SB
796 isn't popular with businesses, which
must mean its good for the everyday person.
It's just too bad they have to be so diametrically
opposed all of the time.
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