Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

PmButtPics4ADrawing t1_jcpg94m wrote

Maybe try reading the article instead of just the headline. The bill wouldn't force companies to reduce hours, it just provides tax credits to those that do so without reducing pay or benefits. If your employer doesn't think they can cut hours without cutting pay they just won't participate.

>Three Democratic state lawmakers are hoping to make Pennsylvania a more appealing place to work. The trio has proposed a pilot program to supply tax credits to businesses that provide a four-day, 32-hour work week to commonwealth-based employees without reducing compensation or benefits packages.

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Allemaengel t1_jcpfq02 wrote

I work in forestry virtually at the original epicenter of SLF and they're virtually not seen anymore there. I've observed a huge number of native predators going after this virtually defenseless protein packs.

And their damage was very limited even at the height of their boom.

Reality is that the quarantine won't really do much just like the Emerald Ash Borer one didn't. In the end predators will emerge in the new areas SLF infests and control the numbers.

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Intrepid-Bear t1_jcpbzdg wrote

When I opened my own business, I decided I wasn’t working 40 hours a week anymore. I was working 50 when I was working for someone else and being a single mom hauling kids to different activities. I usually work 35 hours a week now and have more time for what matters. I don’t want to remember my life for how much I worked, but for the time I got to spend with my kids and significant other. My boyfriend has taken to the same philosophy and is currently working part time hours over night on the weekends so he can spend most of the week with his 100 year old grandfather.

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chaqalaqalaqa t1_jcp8t72 wrote

By passing legislation that does so. I don't know the exact wording or mechanics, but there's a lot of things that companies "wouldn't do" unless they were forced.

We still have a vast majority of people in this state and country who don't have sick time. My partner is currently sick with Covid and can't take off work without being written up. It's a dystopia.

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