Democratic aides were alarmed by the changes, which were passed with no objections because House lawmakers are away from Washington. The changes weren’t shown to most lawmakers before the vote.
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Healthcare employers warned lawmakers and admin officials that the original bill could have led to a shortage of vital healthcare workers. The new House bill excludes those workers from paid family leave, and lets Labor Dept. exclude them from 2 wks paid sick-leave mandate, too.
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Section 3105 of the new bill establishes a special rule that says "an employer of an employee who is a health care provider or an emergency responder may elect to exclude such employee from" the FMLA provisions. The bill gives the Labor secretary authority to implement the rule.
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To clarify earlier tweet: Those employees are not automatically excluded. The Labor secretary has wide discretion to implement the rule (the legislation doesn't say, for example, who qualifies as a health care worker) and industries are pushing for broad interpretation.
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this bill defines ‘toothless’
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It’s terribly unethical that people helping the sick are denied sick leave. Loyalty goes both ways. Soldiers know if they’re wounded in battle, the Army will go all-out to save them. If Army was run by hospital lobbyists, they’d save money by shooting the wounded like lame horses
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#WALLSTREET NEEDS TO BE BROKEN UP
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Others would refer to it as a sellout
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The GOP was holding up the correction, is this the final compromise?
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