House Bill (HB) 500, which is to be heard in the House Small Business and Information Technology Committee Wednesday, would take away Kentucky workers’ rights to lunch and rest breaks at work and would eliminate pay protections, including for time spent traveling to and from a job site during work hours. It is an assault on longstanding basic rights and dignities on the job that will harm practically all Kentucky workers. Specifically, HB 500:
Repeals the requirement that employers provide a lunch break. Currently, businesses must provide a lunch break every three to five hours, but that right would be eliminated under HB 500. Instead, HB 500 says only that a worker required to keep working without a lunch break can’t be denied pay if they juggle eating something while on the job.
That article doesn’t give NEAR enough info about the WHO that is bringing this to the floor.
Here’s the bill
… sponsor by Representative Phillip Pratt [R]
Wait, whats this?
No…it can’t be he is a business owner that just wants to treat his workers like garbage, can it?
Maybe this is just a similarly named company with nothing to do with Representative Phillip Pratt [R]
Or maybe its undoubtedly the same Representative Phillip Pratt [R]
source
I wonder if his employees know he put forth this legislation and that their basic human needs are on the chopping block for this guy’s extra pocket money.
How much do you want to bet that he’s also hiring undocumented workers that couldn’t even vote against it if they knew?
I didn’t even realize it when I posted before, but he’s even wearing the same tie and what I’m guessing is his congressional pin in his company picture as he is on his government picture.
Give his company a call and let them know
The good news is, the company is getting flooded with one star reviews on Yelp because of this.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/pratts-lawn-and-landscape-georgetown
They responded to all of the reviews saying politics are not relevant and they are reporting the review to yelp. Even on an old review that said they never showed up What a piece of shit.
“Hurting our hard working employees is the exclusive privilege of our company owner and sponsor of the bill you’re complaining about, Representative Phillip Pratt [R]” /s
Asshole. He can’t do that to the Angie’s List reviews though.
That last one was kept on. One note on Yelp that I did find ironic:
Yelp apparently does not trust consumers to let them know of owners supporting inhumane working conditions.
there are now some totally real 5 star reviews coulden’t even be bothered to use a name other than evan s
edit: was gunna post a review but they are blocking reviews how convinient
Yelp is a mafia and anything on there website should not be trusted.
Oo, and I am finding some juicy reviews on Angie’s List. Definitely read the last one if you skip the other two:
https://www.angi.com/companylist/us/ky/georgetown/pratts-lawn-and-landscape-inc-reviews-463535.htm
There’s one super long one that I won’t paste.
Every republicunt is trying to fuck over every worker, and their notably poor as fuck and overworked constituents are lapping it up because they think it will only be used on labor.
I hate how bad those right wing shitstains have ruined our country, all while claiming to be patriots.