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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Grotesque level of greed': Jeff Bezos' Whole Foods wants workers to pay
colleagues sick leave during coronavirus
Published 2 hours ago on March 13, 2020
By Common Dreams
Absolute bullsh*t. With the amount Jeff Bezos makes in one day, he could shut stores down and pay employees to stay safe.
When progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders say now is the time for solidarity amid the coronavirus outbreak, they likely do not mean that employees of Whole Foodsowned by the worlds richest man, Jeff Bezosshould be asked to give their own accrued paid sick days to their co-workers who have either contracted the deadly virus or been forced to take time out of work because of what is now a global pandemic.
But that is exactly what executives with the grocery chain are asking its employers to do, even though Bezos could effectively give them unlimited paid sick leave during the current national emergency without barely a scratch in his bank account.
In a letter sent to employees earlier this week, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey explained that one of the options available to workers was for them to donate their paid time off (pto) days to a pool that other workers could draw from.
Journalist Lauren Kaori Gurley, who broke the story with reporting for Motherboard, notes that as a subsidiary of Amazon, the worlds biggest company, Whole Foods could easily afford to pay its hourly employees for sick days taken during the coronavirus outbreak without breaking the bank. Instead, the company has put the onus back on workers, and theyre not happy about it.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/grotesque-level-of-greed-jeff-bezos-whole-foods-wants-workers-to-pay-colleagues-sick-leave-during-coronavirus/
And just remember his corporation paid nothing in fucking taxes.......................
elleng
(130,913 posts)That's what Federal employees did/do, at least when my husband and I worked there, in DC; we both contributed leave AND benefited, my husband did when he was very ill.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)before the FMLA came on the scene...................
jimfields33
(15,807 posts)Good luck if you dont have any accrued.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)How dare you propose such a thing at a time like this! Those workers may need that time back someday soon.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)they increase sick leave too for employees quarantined, etc.
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