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Busted! Hobby Lobby Doesn’t Offer Paid Maternity Leave
David Green who owns Hobby Lobby is worth more than $5 billion.
The Supreme Court is about to hand down a ruling on whether the privately owned “Christian” company Hobby Lobby can be exempt from the Obamacare mandate that employers must provide contraception to their employees. Hobby Lobby lawyers say providing contraception to employees goes against the company’s deeply held religious beliefs.
So, we wondered if Hobby Lobby’s deeply held religious beliefs also included providing paid maternity leave to its employees. After all, if you want your workers pregnant, certainly you’d be willing to join the rest of the industrialized world by paying for the mother’s eight or so weeks with her newborn. Certainly Hobby Lobby CEO and founder David Green whose net worth is north of $5 billion could afford to offer paid maternity leave.
Alas, Mr. Green’s Hobby Lobby doesn’t want to pay for maternity leave either. Here’s what we found from an anonymous Hobby Lobby employee who wrote four years ago…
Why does such a successful business not provide BETTER maternity leave for their employees than just the FMLA? I’ve been with this company for almost 8 years and work myself to the bone and take good pride in my job, but yet I’ll have to take my vacation that I have worked so hard for and my PTO time off in order to still be able to get paid when I do take maternity leave.
If all I took was just the FMLA I would lose my house and my bills wouldn’t get paid. If I were rich the FMLA wouldn’t bother me a bit, but I’m not and it does. I just feel that such a “Christian company” would look after their faithful employee’s alot better. I don’t feel that I’m asking for much, but some payment for maternity leave is better than nothing if it means that it will keep food on the table. Thank you for your time.
David Green should purchase this book to learn about where he’ll be spending eternity.
The FMLA she is referring to is the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act which only requires employers to provide unpaid leave for medical and family reasons. During this week’s Working Families Summit, President Obama drew attention to our nation’s dismal record on providing for newborns and their mothers by telling his audience…
“There is only one developed country in the world that does not offer paid maternity leave, and that is us… And that is not the list you want to be on — on your lonesome. It’s time to change that.”
The Supreme Court will rule on Hobby Lobby any moment now. Corporations we are told are people, so we’d like to think a company WHO calls itself Christian would behave like a good Christian. A good Christian would worry about the health of a mother and her newborn by providing maternity leave.
Watch: If Ralph Reed Were Muslim Instead of Christian The FBI Would Arrest Him For What He Just Said
Ralph Reed is the Born Again Christian with a boyish face who just missed going to jail a few years ago when investigations into Lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s Indian Casino scandal exposed Reed as an inveterate Washington insider whose lobbying efforts were just on the cusp illegal. They were certainly deceitful.
Reed got his start in the 80s as one of the prime shakers of the Christian Coalition breaking down the separation of Church and State. Here he is promising to “raze” the I.R.S. building in Washington D.C. at this week’s Faith And Freedom Conference. He talks of “killing” the I.R.S. and leaving the IRS building “in rubble” as a “monument to future generations” about the importance of liberty.
When asked if Jews should pay taxes Jesus said, “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Jesus believed in paying taxes, but apparently Ralph Reed knows better than Jesus.
Billow of smokes after a domestic terrorist flew his plane into an Austin, Texas IRS building in 2010.
Ralph is all smiles, but underneath it all Reed is sending out a dog whistle to his evangelical faithful to act against our government. Homeland Security should take note of this. We should all remember Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, of north Austin, Texas who flew his single-engine fixed-wing Piper PA-28-236 into an I.R.S. building in Austin, Texas killing himself as well as several other IRS employees back in February of 2010. Stack left behind a screed attacking the IRS, especially the tax code, and said he had been left with no choice but to use his plane to set things right. This was an act of domestic terrorism, incited by right wing charlatans like Ralph Reed who demonize the I.R.S. to score political points and money.
Whether Ralph Reed was serious about “razing” the I.R.S. building is not the point. This is about the rising tide of careless speech from right wing demagogues who are energizing their violent base. Cloaking yourself in religion while waving a lit flame in front of a pile of gas soaked gun toting rags, like the pile of vile rags listening to Reed at the Faith and Freedom Conference, will lead to something really, really bad.
Imams have been questioned by the FBI for suggesting far less. Flip the script: Had Ralph Reed been a Muslim leader, not a Christian leader, he’d be put on a watch list and brought in for questioning. Instead he makes millions as a lobbyist wandering the very halls of congress he so wantonly incites his followers to attack.
The ultra right is ultra dangerous. Take two minutes to watch this and decide whether or not Reed should be brought in for questioning:
Adorable: Baby Elephant’s First Swim
Via:Imgur
His eyes say it all. If there’s anything cuter than this we’ll probably show it to you.
Watch: Bill O’Reilly’s Plan To Militarize US Border With Mexico Leaves Brit Hume Speechless
As a longtime Fox News host and pontificate, Brit Hume has seen his fair and balanced share of right wing lunatics. But when Bill O’Reilly suggests America needs to build a wall along the Rio Grande with armed soldiers pointing weapons at children to keep them from coming in, it was all Hume could do not to look aghast. Well, any more aghast than Hume already looks.
Listen: Rush Limbaugh Says Secretaries in USA’s “Suits” Are Proof Positive Women Are Not Mistreated in The Workplace
Rush today insisted that women need no protection because they’re stronger than men on the fictional television show “Suits.” He says the secretaries on that program are always depicted as smarter than their bosses, stronger than their bosses and always telling their bosses to “grow a pair,” so that proves men are weak and women are strong. Yet he fails to notice that the stronger sex still works as secretaries while the weaker sex makes more money as their boss.