Family Leave for Pets
RUSH: I warned everybody this was gonna happen. I'm only mentioning this now. It has nothing to do with the campaign. It just another one of these, "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah," See, I Told You So's. Way back when the whole family leave idea came up, the first iteration of family leave was we need something like... It had nothing to do with maternity leave. This was separate. Family leave. It was maybe six weeks for people to deal with family disruptions and the illness of a spouse and the illness of a child and the illness of an elderly family member so forth.
There was, "Oh, yeah, wonderful idea! Make the boss pay for it! The boss should have to go out and hire replacements! Make the boss pay family leave. These bosses have piles of money they're not using. Sure! Just ladle that expense on 'em." And I warned everybody: "This not gonna work, because you can't take six weeks off and not earn any money." Most people can't. We had the survey last week that a majority of Americans, if they had to, could not come up with $400. If they had a $400 emergency, they have to sell something.
So you're telling people, "Hey, guess what? Democrats got you family leave! Yeah, six weeks, eight weeks." "Uh, do I get paid?" "No, you don't." Of course, that was easy to predict, that paid family leave would soon follow, which it did. But I said, "It's not gonna end there. Paid family leave is gonna include your pet at some more down the line," and we have arrived at that day. New York Post: "Pet Owners Deserve Family Leave, Too -- Bringing my adopted cat, Jameson, home with me in 2014 was one of the happiest days of my life," writes whoever wrote this.
"Having to go back to work two days later was one of the worst." She had to leave her new adopted cat at home to go to work. "While the rest of the country is hung up on the necessity of maternity leave -- or even the newly coined 'meternity' -- one group continues to be overlooked when it comes to paid time off from work: new pet owners. 'Paw-ternity' leave is already a reality in the UK -- the US pet-insurance provider Petplan found that nearly 5% of new pet owners in the UK were offered time off to care for their four-legged kids.
"(Not surprisingly, the UK is also light-years ahead of the US when it comes to maternity leave, offering up to 39 weeks of paid leave for new mothers.) ... While my co-workers with kids walk out the door at 6 p.m., no one seems to care that I also have a child at home waiting for dinner." She's talking about her pet cat. So there we have it: Paid family leave for the animals, for the pets, and that's gonna come next. You just watch. If it's already reality in the UK it's not that far off.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/pet-owners-deserve-family-leave-too/
RUSH: I warned everybody this was gonna happen. I'm only mentioning this now. It has nothing to do with the campaign. It just another one of these, "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah," See, I Told You So's. Way back when the whole family leave idea came up, the first iteration of family leave was we need something like... It had nothing to do with maternity leave. This was separate. Family leave. It was maybe six weeks for people to deal with family disruptions and the illness of a spouse and the illness of a child and the illness of an elderly family member so forth.
There was, "Oh, yeah, wonderful idea! Make the boss pay for it! The boss should have to go out and hire replacements! Make the boss pay family leave. These bosses have piles of money they're not using. Sure! Just ladle that expense on 'em." And I warned everybody: "This not gonna work, because you can't take six weeks off and not earn any money." Most people can't. We had the survey last week that a majority of Americans, if they had to, could not come up with $400. If they had a $400 emergency, they have to sell something.
So you're telling people, "Hey, guess what? Democrats got you family leave! Yeah, six weeks, eight weeks." "Uh, do I get paid?" "No, you don't." Of course, that was easy to predict, that paid family leave would soon follow, which it did. But I said, "It's not gonna end there. Paid family leave is gonna include your pet at some more down the line," and we have arrived at that day. New York Post: "Pet Owners Deserve Family Leave, Too -- Bringing my adopted cat, Jameson, home with me in 2014 was one of the happiest days of my life," writes whoever wrote this.
"Having to go back to work two days later was one of the worst." She had to leave her new adopted cat at home to go to work. "While the rest of the country is hung up on the necessity of maternity leave -- or even the newly coined 'meternity' -- one group continues to be overlooked when it comes to paid time off from work: new pet owners. 'Paw-ternity' leave is already a reality in the UK -- the US pet-insurance provider Petplan found that nearly 5% of new pet owners in the UK were offered time off to care for their four-legged kids.
"(Not surprisingly, the UK is also light-years ahead of the US when it comes to maternity leave, offering up to 39 weeks of paid leave for new mothers.) ... While my co-workers with kids walk out the door at 6 p.m., no one seems to care that I also have a child at home waiting for dinner." She's talking about her pet cat. So there we have it: Paid family leave for the animals, for the pets, and that's gonna come next. You just watch. If it's already reality in the UK it's not that far off.
http://nypost.com/2016/05/02/pet-owners-deserve-family-leave-too/