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These have been abused quite a bit. They often aren't enforceable but what worker can afford being sued. A blanket ban is a good thing.
There is a lot of low hanging fruit as to labor law reform.
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These have been abused quite a bit. They often aren't enforceable but what worker can afford being sued. A blanket ban is a good thing.
There is a lot of low hanging fruit as to labor law reform.
Beelzebuddy
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Low hanging fruit, but Brandon's reaching for it. Don't discourage him from doing the right thing, especially when it's also the smart political thing.
Employers do. Sorry, small business entrepreneurs and job creators. Why, here's the owner of a small diner in Methville, Flyover ready to cry to whichever news stations will listen about how letting his employees quit and put food on other peoples' plates takes it right off of his.
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wareyin
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I've had a family member get threatened to be taken to court over a non-compete agreement. The new job was over 600 miles away from the old job, but the small business owner still thought she could enforce it. Or at least use it to vindictively disrupt a job change from an employee who "jumped ship".
Non-competes are vastly over-used, and hard for an employee to fight. There should be a blanket ban unless there actually is some proprietary secret at play, and no sandwich shop has something like that. (Or a software training company as was the case I'm familiar with)
Non-competes are vastly over-used, and hard for an employee to fight. There should be a blanket ban unless there actually is some proprietary secret at play, and no sandwich shop has something like that. (Or a software training company as was the case I'm familiar with)
lobosrul5
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In my first quasi-real job after college I quit.. the owner put a piece of paper in my face that he wanted me to sign to collect my final check. It was a non-compete. Like this insanely broadly worded thing that would have essentially prohibited me from working on a computer (not just in the IT industry, like anything on a computer) for 10 years.
autumn1971
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How about “not a Regan Republican with a tad more social progressiveness.”
I hope you told him to stuff it. He owed you the money for work you already did.
TheGoldcountry
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I've seen a few business owners think they can make demands by holding back paychecks. It never ended well for them if they persisted.
lobosrul5
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Oh I did. He was just being vindictive, and there was no way it enforceable anyways. He lost a huge amount of money on this hairbrained idea he had.
autumn1971
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Why in the ever loving **** does one have to focus on a candidate with no hope of winning the nomination? Just pivot to the election you actually need to campaign for.
Every time asked why she won’t debate him or address his points she should have said “I agree with [] and disagree with some, but the opposition is objecting to the idea of Americans in general.”
Jesus, I really didn’t like Hilary’s policy positions, but how ******* difficult would my suggestion have been?
Skeptic Ginger
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Great, who did you have in mind?
I went to work for a nursing agency a couple decades ago. They were competing with hospitals that had previously had a monopoly on nurses wages. Our wages began to climb.
They had a 'no other jobs' paper to sign. It made some sense in they they were sending us to the same hospitals we might quit the agency to work for the hospital.
The problem was I could go work at those hospitals anytime I wanted without being sent their by the agency. And the agency did nothing as far as training/educating me. I said so and refused to sign. The recruiter got mad but they still hired me at the agency.
I've never heard of such a thing in the fast food industry. For computer tech and other jobs that might use proprietary stuff I get it. But the restaurant industry? Makes no sense to me.
wareyin
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Are you familiar with the oft-repeated claims that Hillary acted as though she were the presumptive candidate, 'my turn', the DNC put their thumb on the scales for her, etc? Do you think that Clinton deciding '**** it, I'm not going to campaign in any more of the primaries because Sanders has already mathematically lost' would have done anything other than multiply that by 10,000?
dudalb
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Last night just confirms my beleif that anybody who thinks a level of political violence amunting to a second civil war is not a real possiblity in the USA is llving in La La Land.
It makes it harder for an experienced cashier or burger flipper to walk across the street for a 50-cent raise. It makes plenty of sense to the people who run those places, however much it hurts the workers.
Stacyhs
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I remember one Trumper being interviewed by Jordan Klepper in 2020 who said he was doing better financially than he'd ever done before. He was making tons of money. When asked what he did, he said he had a debt collection agency.
autumn1971
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That wasn’t what you claimed. You claimed she was forced to engage and defend herself from Sanders, which prevented her from addressing the neo-fascists in the hen house.
She could have campaigned in primary states as the presumptive candidate and ignored “sniping from the left.”
They were using Nerf bullets.
autumn1971
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Seriously, time-frame please.
You have been bleating this in every US politics thread for over a decade.
I’m not even saying I think you’re wrong, just that the boy who cried wolf is telling you to back off the throttle
Delvo
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Better yet, why is this kind of campaign strategizing never applied to Republicans and/or the right? Answer: because the DP has been significantly more successful than the RP at tricking its own constituents into falling for such transparently counterproductive hogwash on strategy.
And if the DP were actually at all concerned about being called on their habit of rigging their own primaries for the right and making "running to the right" the key to winning their own primaries, then all they'd have to do is... quit rigging their own primaries for the right and making "running to the right" the key to winning their own primaries, & let their constituents have the candidates the DP knows they want.
It looks from that article that they had ceased that practice within a few years of 2014.
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Biden was on a roll when I turned it off but I could tell it was partially a campaign speech. "Ironworkers...manufacturing". Nuff said 
But he sounded good. The beginning of the speech seemed awkward and poorly written unless he ad-libbed parts. I'm glad I missed the drama from the Repubs, I can't actually watch most of them.
I've been too distracted by the Republicans and other disasters to consider an alternate candidate. I'd expect the Democrats to maybe mention a few themselves. They could have tried.
Is it strange that nobody stepped up? Did anyone?
I think a good strategy would be to announce later and possibly limit some of the Republican bullcrap flung at them due to time constraints. It's not too late. Technically.
My friend's Mom slipped into full on dementia within the past two years and she's mid 70s. So did my step-Mom. We're taking a risk putting all our eggs in the Biden basket.
But if it's Biden he has my vote. Any Democrat would though, as with 2020.
I see Harris is his running mate. Anyone know medically/statistically what the odds are that she will be our next interim-President?
The Repubs prophecy will come true, although a bit late . Hmm it could still happen this term though.
What happens if Joe falls ill before the election? Who runs?
Shaky stuff in my opinion.
But he sounded good. The beginning of the speech seemed awkward and poorly written unless he ad-libbed parts. I'm glad I missed the drama from the Repubs, I can't actually watch most of them.
I've been too distracted by the Republicans and other disasters to consider an alternate candidate. I'd expect the Democrats to maybe mention a few themselves. They could have tried.
Is it strange that nobody stepped up? Did anyone?
I think a good strategy would be to announce later and possibly limit some of the Republican bullcrap flung at them due to time constraints. It's not too late. Technically.
My friend's Mom slipped into full on dementia within the past two years and she's mid 70s. So did my step-Mom. We're taking a risk putting all our eggs in the Biden basket.
But if it's Biden he has my vote. Any Democrat would though, as with 2020.
I see Harris is his running mate. Anyone know medically/statistically what the odds are that she will be our next interim-President?
The Repubs prophecy will come true, although a bit late
. Hmm it could still happen this term though.What happens if Joe falls ill before the election? Who runs?
Shaky stuff in my opinion.
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