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09-16-2009, 12:54 PM | #1 | |
To shreds, you say?
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How to pay for the bailout and cash for clunkers
all while making a big show of pissing away 50 tax dollars for every five you get...
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09-16-2009, 01:03 PM | #2 |
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We should definitely turn health care over to this type of organization. Think of the improvements we could have.
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09-16-2009, 06:54 PM | #3 | ||
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09-16-2009, 06:37 PM | #4 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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A healthcare equivalent of this issue is restrictions against volunteering for human experientation. There are specific instances where it may be a good idea to let people slide, and there may be poorly handled enforcement (one way or the other), but on the whole it is a good law.
If a company can get workers by calling them volunteers, and compensating them in a method that is cheaper than the minimum wage, and not get called on it, they will. And the mentioned "coercion" does happen (Blog link). I'm not speaking to the particulars of this case, which looks like it may well be a good candidate for an example of poor enforcement (especially calculating a years' worth of pay when the volunteer only worked part of the year). But there are enough bad actors who would use a setup like this to avoid worker protection laws that some informal handshake-type arrangements may no longer be possible.
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09-17-2009, 12:11 AM | #5 |
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How many of those claims should they have rejected?
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09-17-2009, 07:24 AM | #6 |
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How many "volunteer" hours should the co-op have paid?
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09-17-2009, 10:59 AM | #7 |
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That is a scary interpretation of the law. Most non-profits depend on volunteer labor. If these people are deemed employees because they get some personal benefit, whoa, we are in a whole world of bad place. I'm involved with about 5 non profits. one of which maybe will need a superfast rethink about their policies One already had one last year and resulted in a huge drop off in volunteers to the point where they had to hire more employees and reduced the $$ actually going to support the good cause.
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09-25-2009, 07:59 PM | #8 | |
“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
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Well there you have it. Someone had to say it.
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