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By keith sadler
September 10, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this
If you have any doubts as to whose side the democrats are really on this decision by teddy should clear it up. don’t let the people decide let politicians who have big business in their pockets too decide. I also liked how much of a fight the backers put up which included mainstream unions
By jsparrow
September 7, 2008 5:00 AM | Link to this
Listen you “No Government” people. Until the govt. passed child labor laws the business owner was happy to work 10yr. old’s in the factories and complained that it would wreck the economy if they couldn’t exploit the children. As for companies leaving Ohio. Go now! There are plenty of countries that will welcome you bastards. No EPA laws, no unions. Just drag some guy from his tin shack and pay him $1 a day. You’ll be rolling in the money you unpatriotic SOB’s!
By Jason
September 6, 2008 6:01 AM | Link to this
Many of you do not understand the true expense of doing business! Yes, you would have gotten your paid sick days, but you still would have paid for it. Whenever a business is presented with a new expense, it has to be passed on to the consumer. Prices would go up on everything from you cheeseburger at McDonald’s to your skyrocketing hospital bills. You may see this as a way of sticking it to the man, but you are only sticking it to yourself! You are too small minded to see the full picture!
By resident evil
September 5, 2008 10:20 PM | Link to this
I feel sick from reading these comments! I think I should take a day off. The last thing we need right now is to discourage any buisness from our state!
By Tom
September 5, 2008 1:41 PM | Link to this
NAFTA heard of it the gov.took care it, yeah we need their help with this too. They already hurt us with NAFTA and made it easier for companies to move over seas. What we need are real unions that stand up for the good people and tell the slackers sorry about your luck. Unions protect to many of the due paying slackers that abuse their fellow members. Unions need to start using the contracts work for the companies too. If a contract passes then make members live by it too.
By James
September 5, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this
If businesses would do the right thing on their own, then government wouldn’t get involved. If it were up to many business owners, we wouldn’t have a miniumum wage, overtime pay, minimum age requirements, or safety regulations. Sometimes government needs to step in to protect workers.
By OH Mom
September 5, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this
If businesses cared one iota about their employees, there would be no need to even discuss potential laws like this. But the truth of the matter is, business owners care only about their profits. They’ll screw their workers every chance they get. All of you against a law like this are unbelievable. Personally, I have a real problem with sick people making my food, or handling my groceries at the store. Paid sick leave should be guaranteed in some way.
By null
September 5, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this
Gov’t shouldn’t legislate it. 7 days will never be enough for some. Requiring a doctor’s note will generate complaints about having to spend $$ at the doctor, when they didn’t feel THAT bad. Let business owners run business. If they’re too generous w/benefits, they’ll be out of business due to costs. If they’re too stingy w/benefits, they’ll be out of business due to lack of workers. But, give business owners the opportunity to reap what they sow…it’s the free-market (and American) way!
By pop
September 5, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this
The honor system doesn’t work and neither does legislation when it comes to illness.There shouldn,t be a problemif an employee is sick and needs a day off. The secret is,does the boss know if you are honest or pulling his leg to get a day off. I have worked for various companies and when I was sick the boss knew it and had no problem with my absence. We all have to establish our own credibality.
By SnowMan
September 5, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this
Hey “Scratch” come by and get me, we’ll go together and get OUR DISABITILIE’S tell ya what! Let the the working sick worry about themselfs I ain’t gona.I went to work many time sick, Boss once told me when I said I was sick but I’m here, he said this to me .”They have a hospital for the sick, and a grave yard for the die,and this place AIN’T one of them”….We need more Government Protection for our DISABITILIES!!!! See at the food stamp line Ole Buddie…The SnowMan…
By Steve
September 5, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
I missed one day of work in nearly 10 years. I had to change jobs and now I have to wait a year to get 3 sick days which would be fine except for the threats I got at work yesterday when I went with a bad cold and people saying you better not make me sick. Maybe I can make my co-employees sick and everybody need to take off then.
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September 5, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:38 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this
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September 5, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
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By Julie
September 5, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this
Amazing…you can’t smoke in a bar in Ohio because you have to be concerned about the health of the employees and other customers….yet, you can work at McDonald’s while sick with pneumonia and that’s fine.
By concerned citizen
September 5, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this
Government needs to take care of just that … government! That’s why they were elected!!! They have no business trying to stick their nose into how people run their businesses. When you accept a job offer from any company, the benefit package is explained to you up front. So, if you don’t like it, get a job somewhere else. Get whatever training you need to improve your skills so that you can obtain employment from a better company! Stop depending on government and take responsibility!
By Tom
September 5, 2008 6:32 AM | Link to this
This issue what a joke. Pass it jobs will leave, employers using the excuse of the law to move their business over seas. Pass it, and your lousy employies use those days without doc. excuses and turn around and start with the doc. excuses afterwards. I’m a union man and people abuse the system no matter what, I went to work every day. Laws for the minorities have killed this country. Equal rights HUH!, There are bad employers and bad employies and the turmoil just kills the good peolpe.
By Tom
September 5, 2008 6:32 AM | Link to this
This issue what a joke. Pass it jobs will leave, employers using the excuse of the law to move their business over seas. Pass it, and your lousy employies use those days without doc. excuses and turn around and start with the doc. excuses afterwards. I’m a union man and people abuse the system no matter what, I went to work every day. Laws for the minorities have killed this country. Equal rights HUH!, There are bad employers and bad employies and the turmoil just kills the good peolpe.
By sickdays
September 5, 2008 4:36 AM | Link to this
I am always amazed at the rude comments people make on these sections. I don’t see were 5 sick days would hurt a business. People do get sick. Germs don’t discriminate. An illness getting passed around a business doesn’t just effect productivity, it will be taken home to family members. Then, the employee will have to call off work to take care of ill family members due to the EMPLOYER’S selfish attitude.
By john nully
September 5, 2008 1:39 AM | Link to this
Nothing wrong with sick days as long as you have a signed note from your doctor .
By tired nurse
September 4, 2008 11:51 PM | Link to this
I am thrilled! In healthcare, nurses and nursing assistants call off at a rate of once a month. I worked over 4 hours tonight because 3 people called off “sick”. At our co. all emp get 18 days a year,use it as vacation or sick time. Did you read the fine print? you can take your days in increments of hours with no prior notice needed and the boss can’t say no, so if all the nurses leave at noon on Fridays due to “illness”, I guess all you patients who voted for it to pass would understand
By gomolchak
September 4, 2008 11:13 PM | Link to this
To all you people against this, i have one question for you! What about the doctors and nurses in the hospital that take care of sick patients? Even with every precaution we take, hand washing, PPE ect… we will still at some point get sick. What about us the ER staff that care for pts who don’t know how to cover there mouth when they cough and hack all over us? I think that EVERYONE in Ohio deserves 7 paid days a year!!!
By Cait
September 4, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this
I’m glad it’s off the ballot. I’m not opposed to a federal mandate for 3-4 days a year (maybe one per quarter?). As far as jobs leaving the U.S., it is already happening. Some European countries have mandatory sick leave & vacation(4-6 weeks). The Chinas & Indias don’t, but any U.S. leave policy won’t change business going to those countries. It’s hard to compete against countries who use virtual slave labor. I’m for family values, so I think a few paid sick days is the right thing to do.
By VietVet
September 4, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this
Tough choice- deny working people when they are ill because they feel they’ll lose their jobs if they call off work OR, cancel the program to make Ohio more attractive to potential employers. Both sides have a point. On the surface, it would appear that the working person took the hit again and the ball dropped the employers way again. Starting in the Ronny Reagan years of the 80’s, the work place has gone downhill for the working person. This is one more nail in the old workers coffin.
By emjay
September 4, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this
This is good for Ohio. Plain and simple. Want a decent job with fair pay and benefits? You have to entice employers to come to our state in order to get them. Believe me, they’ll go elsewhere is there is a better deal. Ohio is already criticized for being a tough regulatory state in which to do business, we didn’t need another reason for new and existing businesses to take their jobs elsewhere.
By Concerned Taxpayer
September 4, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this
If you don’t like the sick day policy of your current employer, I see you have two options.
The gov’t has no business telling people how to run their business. Remember — according to Fred Thompson tuesday night, you aren’t affected by all these mandates to businesses unless you buy from a business, work for a business, or own a business…
By steve
September 4, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this
Johns comment reminds of my brother. He too was in a car accident trying to get to work when he should have been in bed. Nobody was killed, but he had to appear in court. He explianed that he was feeling ill the day of the accident. The judges ironic response, you should have called in and took a sick day. So out of touch with the real world
By Bobby Hall
September 4, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this
That’s great news! We are already the 47th state when it comes to businesses appeal in the U.S. This would surely put us to 50! It’s too bad that you guys writing these messages put yourself in a position that you would need a sick day. It’s not our fault you didn’t earn a higher degree and are living pay check to pay check. There’s no way this will pass at a regional level. If so, can you guys say “outsourcing?” Most of you probably not, just ask your managers at work. They’ll explain it.
By mary
September 4, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
I have read about people in Europe who have several days off from work paid and non paid. They are happy workers and don’t mind going to work, whereas here in the USA we have to go to work sick and pass whatever we have around. Maybe that is one way of getting rid of us a little at a time. The government has done enough bs for us we need to take a stand together somehow and quit bellyaching about it.
By steve
September 4, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this
By Opal
September 4, 2008 2:19 PM | Link to this
On Tuesday I came to work sick. I didn’t want to, but if I had called in I would have been charged: 1. Tuesday’s Pay, 2. Loss of Holiday Pay from Monday, 3. Loss of earned Personal Day for the Quarter. So there I was, stomachache and all. I don’t care how sick I was, it was not worth THREE days pay. This is the screwed up system that I believe needs changed. I don’t believe in the over-reaction of people to the impact of this on Ohio’s businesses. How about we consider the workers for a change?
By john
September 4, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this
I had a relative who tried to go to work a couple of years ago despite a severe headache and feeling lousy. On the highway he suffered a stroke, crossing the mediam, crashing into another car, killing himself, one person in the other car, critically injuring the other. If he could have taken a sick day it might not have saved his life, but wouldve saved another. I guess employers dont care about that.
By KAF
September 4, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this
This pulling of the paid sick day ballot measure has Ted Strickland’s fingerprints all over it. Enough signatures were collected and it almost certainly would have passed. He must have really had something good on the officials at the SEIU. Just another backward move by the governor, like many of his decisions. It will take years for any federal law to be enacted and you can bet it will be watered down to nothing. Gov. Strickland, please change your party affiliation to Republican so voters will know what they are getting.
WE NEED MORE GOVERNMENT PROTECTION FOR WORKERS
By Laurie
September 4, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this
Why should government be involved with sick day policies at all? How ‘bout LESS government!! Let the companies decide their sick leave policies. What a novel idea.
By Bill in Brookville
September 4, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
Republicans are always clammering we need less Government while privitizing everything the Government does, making their buddies rich and costing the citizens more. 20 years of Republican control of Ohio has taken our state from the top 10 in income to the bottom 15 of all 50 states at the same time making more millionares and taken away more and more workers rights. This state was stong when the middle class was strong. Now it almost doesn’t exist
By Julie
September 4, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this
Ahhhh…I see that this is the catalyst for the next pandemic flu. The 45 year old that was laid off from GM is now serving your burger and fries and he’s feverish and coughing up a lung, but he can’t take the day off and stay in bed because he will lose pay or be fired. Can you say “Bad for business?”.
By enough
September 4, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this
Vote a Democrate in office and now you see what you got in a govenor, protect Ohio and hurt the whole country even more. If a bill like this passes more jobs will head over seas, those people will work sick, they will be made to.
By musicalpenny
September 4, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this
It’s too bad anyone feels the need to pass laws requiring employers to have more consideration for their employees. But in terms of competing against outsourcing jobs to other countries. Well, that needs to be dealt with anyway. It’s about time we start thinking about the US before we think about other countries and how we can use their workers to benefit the corporate bottom line. If they want to make their products in other countries, let them sell the products in other countries.
By LB
September 4, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this
Money talks and BS walks! Whoever has the most money wins! Big businesses don’t want to pay their workers for being sick! They should leave this on the ballot and see what the people say!
By Roger
September 4, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
“Strickland said he favors a federal bill… Strickland has said an Ohio-only law would put the state at an economic disadvantage in competing with other states for jobs.”
So instead, he wants to put the whole country at an economic disadvantage in competing with other countries for jobs. I see now. That makes a lot more sense when you subject the whole country to a disadvantage. How could I have been so blind? I’m such an idiot!
By Steve
September 4, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this
This would have been unfair to ohio employers. We don’t need this at the local, state, or federal level. Keep government out of it. Mandatory paid sick days…give me a break! Just get yourself out of bed and get to work.
WE NEED LESS GOVERNMENT!
By Mike
September 4, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
I agree that the laws like these should be at the state level. The bad thing about this it mainly helped the guy who was making minimum or low wages. They cannot afford to take off without pay. Do you want sick people handling your meat and produce in grocery stores and restaurants, I don’t. Most well paying jobs have sick leave as part of their benefits.
By Mike
September 4, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this
I agree that the laws like these should be at the state level. The bad thing about this it mainly helped the guy who was making minimum or low wages. They cannot afford to take off without pay. Do you want sick people handling your meat and produce in grocery stores and restaurants, I don’t. Most well paying jobs have sick leave as part of their benefits.
By Bob
September 4, 2008 12:22 PM | Link to this
This would have been unfair to ohio employers. We don’t need this at the local, state, or federal level. Keep government out of it. Mandatory paid sick days…give me a break! Just get yourself out of bed and get to work.
WE NEED LESS GOVERNMENT!
By Kevin
September 4, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this
I guess to avoid making one group very unhappy, Ted has decided to pass the buck off to the federal Government. I can’t say I blame him. On one hand it would be nice for Ohio to be a Trailblazer in worker’s rights but on the other hand the last thing Ohio needs is more companies leaving the State for cheaper pastures. Make it a federal law and that way all states have to comply and companies that we still have left here in Ohio won’t be relocating for a better deal.
By Old Scratch
September 4, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this
Well, I’m not waiting for some damm lying umion organizer or politician I’m going on disability, section 8, food stamps, and get my government supplied dentures.
By Rob
September 4, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this
I wonder what they got in exchange for pulling this off the ballot? If they were concerned about Ohio citizens they would not have done this. People can you say B-R-I-B-E.
By Gergie
September 4, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this
It’s only partially good news. Now instead of Ohio jobs going to neighboring states the jobs will go to the BRIC’s (Brazil, India, China, Russia, etc, etc).
By dennis ferguson
September 4, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this
I am opposed to more Federal regulation of issues that in my opinion should be left to the States and even local governmental authorities. We have far too much federal regulation of local business decisions as it is.