Is it true that GOP are trying to pass an law that would make it illegal for workers to get sick leave?

Question

and the law also bans future attempts to raise the minimum wage, prohibit employers from firing workers because they are gay, or protecting women from sexual harassment from their superiors.

It is called the Enumerated Powers Act of 2013.

Answer 1

Yes.



Cons are always imagining ways to promote their war on the Middle Class.

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Answer 2

"The same law was just used by Governor Rick Scott of Florida to do it. he signed, a pre-emptive law making it illegal to pass legislation to provide paid sick leave to employees."



No state law can prohibit another state law from being passed. Any law passed by a state can be repealed by the state. Only constitutional amendments can prohibit laws. Federal laws can override some state laws.



In Florida, that state law overrides munincipal laws, all in accordance with the powers granted by the state's constitution to the state legislature. The state is prohibiting local governments from being forced to give sick leave. Large metropolitan areas usually consist of one large city surrounded by several smaller cities, and when one city's laws deviate from state law requiring benefits provided by private businesses, it creates a snarl that profits mainly the lawyers and accountants. City A cannot mandate what benefits a business located in City B provides.



This article appeared in Yahoo news in July :



http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/want-help-poor-eliminate-minimum-wage-says-american-201617141.html

Want to help the poor? Eliminate minimum wage, American billionaire says

By Andy Radia | Canada Politics – Fri, 12 Jul, 2013



Here is one excellent comment (and there are many) :



Yes...I'm sure that the trip from poverty to prosperity will happen (right). First, upon getting rid of the minimum wage, we'll see plenty of low-skill jobs go to people desperate enough to make $2/hour - or less. These people will be unable to make the rent or to afford transportation, and will quickly become homeless...because the end of the first month of no minimum wage is going to come far sooner than house and rental prices fall in response to the shifting buyers' market. But that's okay if millions of people are suddenly shoved from lower middle class into crisis - there are always more desperate people willing to take their jobs. Entrepreneurs, he mentions? They need a MARKET for their products and services - if the majority of people around them don't have the money for essentials, they sure won't be buying extras. The idea that LABOUR should be fluid and flexible is great - unless you are labour. Fluid and flexible are euphemisms for desperate and beaten. Peasants. Which will allow Koch and his ilk to get richer. That's the problem with supply-side economics - it's great for the people who already have money, not so much for those struggling to survive.

And don't think Mr. Koch got where he is without relying on some of that "cronyism" he objects to so much.

Answer 3

http://www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ContentRecord_id=e6bb76fa-b40a-40e2-a43c-2c8ebc005b5b&ContentType_id=d741b7a7-7863-4223-9904-8cb9378aa03a



The Enumerated Powers Act of 2013 does the following:



1) Requires each Act of Congress, bill, resolution, conference report and amendment to “contain a concise explanation of the specific authority in the Constitution” that is the basis for its enactment.



2) States any legislation that abolishes a Federal activity, spending or overall power may cite the 9th or 10th Amendments to the Constitution.



3) Prohibits the use of the Commerce Clause, except for “the regulation of the buying and selling of goods or services, or the transporting for those purposes, across boundaries with foreign nations, across State lines, or with Indian tribes…”



4) Allows a point of order to be raised in either House of Congress for bills that fail to cite constitutional authority.



5) Cites the constitutional authority to enact the Enumerated Powers Act, which falls under Article I, Section 5, Clause 2 of the Constitution, allowing each House to determine the rules of its proceedings.



No idea where you got your information but it is false unless it is unconstitutional to raise the minimum wage, make laws about firing gays, or protect women from sexual harassment. Those kinds of laws should be at the state level, not federal. There are way, way, way too many federal laws. It is not the purpose of federal government to govern the states. The constitution limits the power of the federal government but that notion has been largely eliminated by the Democrats and likely Republicans as well. This Act would simply r.estore the constitution as it relates to legislation. Now they need to limit the powers of the agencies.



Those who understand the constitution realize that it shouldn't be legal to tell private enterprise how or what they must pay their employees. That was never meant to be a function of government. They aren't preventing private businesses from paying sick time. They are saying the government has no right to force them to do so.

Answer 4

That is partly true, though not entirely. The GOP is actively lobbying for laws to allow employers to fire workers for sexual orientation (or to preserve their right to do so in states like Arkansas). As for making it illegal to get sick leave, no that's not true, nor is it true that the GOP is trying to put a cap on minimum wage. However, they are also trying to make it much harder to claim sexual harassment in the workplace.

Answer 5

Better then the Democrats who are trying to establish a national gun registry so that they can take all your guns. Don't tell me that isn't true either, because you know I can find a BS article that proves this is true just the same. After all we aren't worrying about the TRUTH here.

Answer 6

I haven't heard of that but it wouldn't surprise me.