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.
Republican voters: Does this affect the black, Asian, and Latino guy, too?
It does?
You got my vote.
Disproportionately.
That article doesn’t give NEAR enough info about the WHO that is bringing this to the floor.
… 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]
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?
