Admittedly, implementation and enforcement would be a challenge for this proposal. In that respect, it doesn't differ from existing labor standards legislation in principle -- only in magnitude. Another way to skin this cat would be with something akin to an EITC, which could be called an Earned Leisure Tax Credit. There you would introduce a kind of cross-check of employees filing for the credit and employers providing the data in the form of payroll receipts.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Max Sawicky <[email protected]> wrote: > How likely or how practical? How does the Gov find out how much time > off was granted? How does it check what information is provided? You > should ask these questions about every stimulus proposal. People > never do. > > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: >> good idea! how likely to be implemented? >> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Sandwichman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dean Baker has made this old Sandwichman very, very happy. Point seven >>> of Dean's "Yes, We Can Make the Stimulus more Stimulating</a>": >>> >>> http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/yes,-we-can-make-the-stimulus-more-stimulating/ >>> >>> 7) Pay for shorter workweeks and more vacations >>> >>> The United States lags the rest of world in that its workers are not >>> guaranteed any vacation time, sick leave, or family and parental >>> leave. In Europe, five or six weeks a year of paid vacation is >>> standard. Also, all Western European countries guarantee their workers >>> some amount of paid sick leave and paid parental leave. >>> >>> The stimulus gives us a great chance to catch up with the rest of the >>> world. The government could make up the pay for two years for any paid >>> cutback in hours, up to 10 percent of total hours worked in a year and >>> $3,000 per worker. This means that if a firm offered workers who >>> previously had no paid vacation five weeks of vacation a year, the >>> government would provide a tax credit to pick up the tab, up to $3,000 >>> per worker. Similarly, if they extended 10 days of paid sick leave, >>> the government would provide a tax credit for the amount actually >>> used. If employers of 70 million workers (half of the labor force) >>> received an average tax break of $2,500, the cost would be $170 >>> billion a year. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sandwichman >>> _______________________________________________ >>> pen-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own >> way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >> > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
