Denver voters could soon make a choice as to whether or not employees will be able to take a few days off to recover from the inevitable communicable illness without worrying about losing pay. Since the poor are getting poorer, and the businesses that will whine about this the most are the businesses that exploit the poor, let's do some generous quick math just to get a rough idear of what this would mean for the bottom line.
5 sick days = 1/50 of the working year or 2% of worker's income.
The average overhead percentage of labor is maybe 75%.
A potential increase of 2% in 75% of overhead is 1.5% of overall.
So here's Kelly Maher Republican bleach troll's, (no wait, this is the right link) apt and telling portrayal of a drunk ditz trying to make a point about how mandatory sick days can be abused by alcoholic white girls. Hers is a yarn of irresponsibility so note how she uses her token black friend as a prop so as to convey further irresponsibility (that racist BITCH!)? She gets hammered, and then calls in to work drunk and says "it's the law" that she get this day off paid:
[T]he point I'm trying to make . . . not that people shouldn't have sick days, but that when they're mandated by the government it's open for abuse and will decrease the competitiveness of Denver to other metro counties.
So, according to Kelly Maher on why you shouldn't support this, sick days can only be abused if they're mandated by the government?? WHAT??? Uh... KELLY MAHER: PUT DOWN THE BEER. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. THERE'S HELP
Kelly would rather bulemically regurgitate that old faithful, invisible and impossible Republican zombie mantra "government regulation interfere with wisdom of invisible hand... derrrrrrrrrp" which only helps to discredit anything she ever barfs up in the future.
Besides, I'd bet the farm that King Soopers, McDonald's, the cupcake shops, everything in Cherry Creek, all the trendy shops of Highlands, the Vietnamese and Mexican restaurants and grocers on Federal, janitorial services, construction, arborists, hair dressers, Starbucks, smaller coffee shops targeted by Starbucks, all of the East Colfax businesses that get HUGE tax breaks and offer shit-jobs, the offices of the skyrises downtown, psychics and palm readers, etc., are no longer going to find Denver a profitable place to do business OR they're all just gonna pick up and move shop because overhead is gonna slightly increase in the name of skyrocketing productivity? RIGHT.
Well, I tell ya what. If you're a small business owner (or a CEO of a major corp) and you're thinking about moving to Commerce City, Aurora, Lakewood or another suburb, because of a minor bump in overhead via this law, you just let me know. Because if you're even remotely savvy, you'll know that location is everything. If you can't get that through your thick skull, let me know the name of your business so I can know who to boycott and broadcast to the world that you don't care if your customers get sick from your sick employees.
Opponents of this measure will predictively bully voters and intelligent electeds by threatening to move away. Opponents ignore the fact that the rest of the civilized world has more paid sick days than what is being proposed to Denver voters. They ignore the fact that anyone who has worked with people who can't afford sick days (or "Untouchables" in Maher-speak), knows that a single communicable bug can take down the whole crew regardless of whether or not it's the busiest of seasons. Opponents also ignore the studies that have shown that paid sick days increase productivity.
