House Bill 500 Takes Away Kentucky Workers’ Lunch and Rest Breaks and Cuts Their Pay   - Kentucky Center for Economic Policy
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HB 500 is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers.

HB 500 is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
    181·
    9 months ago

    I didn’t read it, but the bill eliminates the lunch breaks and cuts the pay of state representatives as well, right? /S

  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
    63·
    9 months ago

    Any company that trys this will lose a shit ton of employees to a competitor who will offer lunch and rest breaks. Hell thier is no federal law giving workers breaks now and my state doesn’t have it either. Yet every company offers lunch and some offer breaks. Fuck this bill but workers will still get those breaks or they will go work somewhere else.

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      18·
      9 months ago

      This assumes that:

      1. The people who want to work somewhere else actually have other jobs opportunities that they’re qualified for which offer similar pay - which may not be all that likely in Kansas.

      2. The companies won’t all change their break policies at the same time - which is unlikely in this corporate race to the bottom.

      3. The companies will care about losing employees - most of them don’t.