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June 2009
Tell Congress to Oppose Mandates on You and Your Employees
Legislation Mandating Paid Sick
Leave Introduced in Congress
The
Healthy Families Act (HFA),
which was introduced in the
House (H.R.
2460) and Senate (S.
1152) in May, would mandate
employers to provide paid sick
time to all employees. A House
subcommittee is scheduled to
hold a hearing on H.R. 2460 on
June 11.
HFA
would require employers with 15
or more employees to offer a
one-size-fits-all paid sick
leave package. HFA would
mandate:
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All employees (full and part
time) be allowed to accrue
one hour of paid sick leave
for every 30 hours worked,
with a maximum or 56 hours
(7 days) accrued per year;
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Employees would be allowed
to take intermittent leave,
possibly in increments of
less than an hour;
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No requirement for a "reason
for the absence" for leave
of three consecutive days or
less;
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Unused leave may be carried
over from year to year.
At
a time when employers are
struggling to avoid layoffs and
business closures, imposing paid
leave mandates on employers is
unwise policy that threatens
jobs and the viability of many
of the nation's small
businesses.
IEC
opposes this unwarranted federal
mandate on YOUR business, and we
are encouraging our members to
do the same.
Please
click here to contact your
elected representatives and urge
them to oppose H.R. 2460/S.
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Independent
Electrical Contractors
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Alexandria, VA 22302
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getting involved in the fight against
the Employee Free Choice Act.
Now that the unions have helped elect our
next president and expanded their supportive
majority in the halls of Congress, they are
expecting payback. And merit shop contractors,
like you, can expect to pay for it. The number
one priority on the union legislative agenda is
passage of the Employee Free Choice Act
(EFCA).
What is
the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA)?
- Current federal law
gives employees the right to join, or not
join, a collective bargaining unit through a
government-supervised, secret-ballot
organizing election if at least 30% of
employees have signed union authorization
cards.
- EFCA would eliminate
the secret-ballot election in favor of a
card-check process, which would require an
employer to bargain with a union if a
majority of employees sign authorization
cards.
- EFCA would also
establish a compulsory, binding arbitration
process, following a successful card-check
campaign, if union and employer cannot reach
an agreement after 120 days.
How EFCA
will impact your business?
- EFCA will strip your
employees' right to a secret ballot, which
could expose them to coercion, harassment
and intimidation.
- EFCA will impose
compulsory, binding arbitration, which means
that employees might lose the ability to
approve the terms of their own contracts.
- EFCA will take away
your ability to take part, or even be aware
of, an organizing drive.
What can
you do?
Card-check campaigns and the Employee
Free Choice Act are a direct assault on the
merit shop industry and on YOUR business.
Please follow these three steps to help fight
EFCA:
1. Send the
attached sample letter to the editors of
your local newspaper(s).
2. Visit
http://www.iecvotes.com/ and use the "Take
Action" link to write a letter to your elected
representatives.
3. Support IEC efforts on the national level
by contributing to the
Political Education Fund.
For more information, please contact IEC
National at
govtaffairs@ieci.org or (800) 456-4324.
Independent Electrical Contractors
4401 Ford Avenue, Suite 1100, Alexandria, VA
22302
Phone (703) 549-7351 | Fax (703) 549-7448 |
Email
info@ieci.org | Web
www.ieci.org |
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