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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2931 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Deeply Moving Message from Bernie Sanders - YouTube

FUN FACT: if you have less than 8 employees you aren't required to abide by really any of the workplace regs that we have anyway. So whatever safety net you might have with a big company, it's entirely f'n absent from a small one. Which makes sense: the regs we got are pretty damn onerous on a small company (you have three employees and they all need to be provided healthcare and 2 weeks paid vacation? Yeah, that's why you have one employee and always will). But also makes no goddamn sense - the regs we got are supposed to allow people to survive, not thrive, and if we're really about backing small business, it probably shouldn't be demonstrably perilous to work for one.