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Related: About this forumGlenn Grothman, Wisconsin GOP Senator, Fights For A Seven-Day Workweek
WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R) is attempting to roll back one of the state's progressive labor laws, arguing that workers should be allowed to work without a day off if they so choose.
"Right now in Wisconsin, you're not supposed to work seven days in a row, which is a little ridiculous because all sorts of people want to work seven days a week," he told The Huffington Post in an interview.
Wisconsin is one of the few states in the nation where businesses "must provide employees with at least one period consisting of 24 consecutive hours of rest in each calendar week." This doesn't mean that workers get to take off once every seven days; an employee could work for up to 12 consecutive days "if the days of rest fall on the first and last days of the 2 week period."
Grothman said he finds this law "a little goofy," and he argued that rolling it back is a matter of "freedom."
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The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)ewagner
(18,964 posts)it has extra, extra, extra long sleeves....
Scuba
(53,475 posts)ladym55
(2,577 posts)I don't know many people who CHOOSE to work 7 days in a row. Some have to ... because they are juggling multiple jobs to survive.
People need to stop voting for these idiots whose main goal is to make the lives of all working people living hell.
riversedge
(70,222 posts)several years. Mostly hate RW radio is all we have in large areas.
postulater
(5,075 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)Grothman should not be real.
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)that most Christians want on Sundays. Oh yeah, it is all about the Benjamins.
riversedge
(70,222 posts)and getting out of hand!!
riversedge
(70,222 posts)his bills get attention--and many get passed these last 2 years.
...Grothman said under his legislation, the employee would have to sign a document stating they are choosing to work seven days a week. When asked whether employers could force their employees to sign it, Grothman replied, "Well, they're not supposed to ... Maybe somebody will try to break the law."
"[Gov.] Scott Walker's legislative confederate, who wants to eliminate the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day holiday and voted to water down child labor laws, now has ending the weekend in his legislative crosshairs," said One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. "To do the bidding of their corporate donors, is restoration of indentured servitude coming next from the Walker Republicans?"
Grothman has argued in the past that government employees should have to work on MLK Day. He has taken a significant amount of heat from progressives for sponsoring other bills as well, including one repealing the state's Equal Pay Enforcement Act and another that would have considered single parenthood "a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.".........
CatholicEdHead
(9,740 posts)I also see that he has not been married or had kids. That would explain some of the stances, nobody to look out for but himself.
riversedge
(70,222 posts)I believe she passed on--don't know for sure.