#pto

[thatmemeguy89]

It’s not a request, I’m letting you know I’m not going to be there

#memesdaily #funny memes #spicy memes #meme lord #memedaddy #meme page #meme #dankest memes #memes #dank memes #work memes #PTO #work life #follow me #follow

[reasonsforhope]

"Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year.

Starting Jan. 1, 2024, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards.

Just Maine and Nevada mandate earned paid time time off and allot employees the freedom to decide how to use it, but Illinois’ law is further reaching, unencumbered by limits based on business size. Similarly structured regulations that require employers to offer paid sick leave exist in 14 states and Washington, D.C., but workers can only use that for health-related reasons.

Illinois employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, although the employer may offer more. Employees can start using the time once they have worked for 90 days. Seasonal workers will be exempt, as will federal employees or college students who work non-full-time, temporary jobs for their university.

Pritzker signed the bill Monday in downtown Chicago, saying: “Too many people can't afford to miss even a day's pay ... together we continue to build a state that truly serves as a beacon for families, and businesses, and good paying jobs.”

Proponents say paid leave is key to making sure workers, especially low-income workers who are more vulnerable, are able to take time off when needed without fear of reprisal from an employer.

Bill sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat, said the bill is the product of years of negotiations with businesses and labor groups.

“Everyone deserves the ability to take time off,” she said in a statement. “Whether it’s to deal with the illness of a family member, or take a step back for your mental health, enshrining paid leave rights is a step forward for our state."

“This is about bringing dignity to all workers," she said at the signing."

-via ABC News, 3/13/23

#illinois #jb pritzker #workers rights #labor rights #employment #paid leave #pto #sick leave #burnout #family leave #good news #hope

[talldarkandmurderous]

#phantom of the opera #pto #erik x christine #bookaccurate #icriedlaughing #thismemethoughwontleavemealone

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #pto #capitalism

[rollerman1]

#willys #jeep #cj3b #flat fender #tall hood #farm jeep #pto #4x4

[lookingforcactus]

Non-paywall version here.

"Shawna Freeman Lane, 34, continued to teach college-level business by laptop after she gave birth by C-section in 2017. Her husband, Eric Lane, was home with her in Fircrest, Wash., for three weeks. The same thing happened in 2018, when their second child was born—except this time, Mr. Lane only got two weeks at home.

Having to leave his still-healing wife in the lurch was hard for Mr. Lane, as was tracking his children’s development via text messages while at work. But when their third was born last May, things were different. In 2020, Washington state had passed a new law entitling working parents to 12 weeks of paid leave, to bond with their newborn.

“It felt like winning the lottery, honestly,” said Mr. Lane, who stayed home for six weeks after their son was born, then another six weeks when Ms. Freeman Lane went back to work.

They are part of an explosion in the number of workers taking parental leave. In the 12 months through February [2023], a monthly 406,000 workers were absent on average due to paid or unpaid parental leave, up 13.5% from 2021, according to Labor Department data. The 478,000 working parents absent in January was the most since records began in 1994.

One driver behind the upswing is likely the increase in births in the past two years versus the prepandemic trend. The pandemic itself may also be a factor, as lockdowns and Covid kept many workers home.

But the main factor appears to be government and employer policies. While the U.S. remains the only advanced economy without nationally mandated paid parental leave, the share of workers with access to leave is growing, to 25% in March last year versus 19% in 2019, according to the Labor Department. Seven states plus the District of Columbia now require employers to provide paid leave, up from four in 2018, while private employers are also expanding the benefit. Four more states will require paid parental leave by 2026.

“As the state laws have passed, there has been a culture change, and more awareness and support for mothers and—especially—fathers around taking leave,” said Jane Waldfogel, a public affairs professor at Columbia University.

A greater propensity by fathers to take leave is an important contributor. The number of men on parental leave tripled to an average of 76,500 in the six months ended in February [2023] from five years earlier, whereas the number of women rose 11% to 336,000, according to census data.

More parental leave-taking benefits the economy in the impact on families’ well-being, said Emily Oster, economics professor at Brown University—ranging from near-term outcomes such as infant mortality rates to longer-term measures, including child test scores and adult earnings. “In this sense, leave now is an investment in the economic future,” Ms. Oster said...

Leave policies are a small but increasingly key way that firms compete for workers, according to Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter. About 3% of currently active online job postings nationwide explicitly advertise parental leave, about a fivefold increase from before the pandemic, ZipRecruiter data show.

Industries seeing the biggest increase are retail, and transportation and warehousing, said Ms. Pollak—something she calls the “Amazon effect.” The e-commerce giant was at the forefront of offering parental-leave benefits, prompting competitors to do the same...

Parents are also taking longer leaves. The typical mother now takes 120 days of bonding leave, up from 110 in 2019, and the median father is out for 60 days, a 15-day increase, according to Sparrow, a leave-management platform. New York state family bonding claims data show a similar trend, with moms claiming 9.9 weeks in 2021, a three-week gain from 2018, and dads extending their average leave by 2.3 weeks, to 6.9...

“My son is so much fun now. He’s getting to the stage where he’s his own human,” [Jonathan Leslie, a 36-year-old software engineer] said. “Having the open-ended play with him—that opportunity won’t come again.”

-via The Wall Street Journal, 4/8/23. Non-paywall version via ProgramBusiness, 4/10/23.

#parental leave #labor rights #paid leave #pto #parenting #child development #infants and toddlers #united states #us politics #washington state #good news #hope

[fantoccios-husband]

The Fantoccio of the Theater is there~

Inside my mind~

Love the idea of being lured by him as Christine into the depths of his dark musical lair-

However I've always wanted to play as The Phantom myself.

I feel like we would switch up our roles between scenes depending on what tickled our fancy.

#fictional other #fantoccio #billie bust up #self ship #the muse draws #self shipping #phantom of the opera #pto

[would-u-like-ur-milk-in-a-bag]

#work #vacation #employees #employers #boss #pto

[floridaboiler]

#PTO #Hack

[secretly-a-catamount]

Something something about The Phantom of the Opera and The Nutcracker parallels.

#the phantom of the opera #the nutcracker #christine daae #The Phantom #erik #raoul de chagny #the rat king #clara #PTO #TPOTO #TN

[saltywylan]

Percy Jackson sent you 69 dollars for Yumm

Grover: Stop.

Percy Jackson sent you 69 dollars for Yumm

Annabeth: Seriously, how do you have enough money to keep doing this?

#percy jackson and the olympians #pto #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover underwood #incorrect quote #source: bec original bby

[nando161mando]

Simple math...

#Simple math... #simple math #mathematics #math #pto #vacation #2 weeks notice #2 weeks #two weeks notice #class war #antiwork #anti slavery #slavery #wage slavery #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #employment #employees #employers #capitalism #fascism #oppression

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #corporate culture #pto #fto #unlimited pto #flexible time off

[t3rr3nc3]

#just saying #PTO

[makerspacesystem]

Us: *jumps from alter to alter* PARKOUR!

My partner (another system): “that’s trauma not parkour”

Us: ….PARKOUR!

#makerspacesystem #did system #maker space system #PTO #PTO 🐉 #Arven #Arven 🥪 #shitpost #did memes

[casposters]

Title: Guadalcanal 1942–43: Japan's Bid to Knock Out Henderson Field and the Cactus Air Force Authors: Mark Stille & Jim Laurier

Attack on the “High-Speed Convoy” On October 15, the remnants of the attack aircraft from the Cactus Air Force attacked the Japanese “High-Speed Convoy” of six transports and eight destroyers. The transports arrived off Guadalcanal at midnight and immediately began to unload. When dawn broke, the Marines found the transports protected by Zeros from carriers Hiyo and Junyo and floatplanes from the R Area Air Force. Japanese bombardments of Henderson Field by battleships and cruisers the previous two nights left few American aircraft operational and little fuel. The fuel problem was solved when one of Geiger’s staff officers remembered the location of an emergency fuel reserve. As the Marines searched for fuel, the mechanics worked furiously to return damaged aircraft to flyable condition. Eventually, Geiger prepared a coordinated strike of 12 Dauntlesses escorted by eight Wildcats, three P-39s, and a single P-400. Geiger added his personal PBY-5A flying boat to the strike flown by his personal pilot Major Jack Cram. Using the slow and plodding PBY in daylight was considered suicidal, but the situation demanded every aircraft be committed. The PBY was fitted with two torpedoes and Cram was given his first-ever lesson on how to conduct a torpedo attack. The plan was for the Dauntlesses to attack first and draw attention away from the low-flying PBY. Cram put the aircraft into a dive and reached 240 knots, beyond the PBY’s safe speed. He succeeded in launching his two torpedoes at transport Sasago Maru. The ship was set afire, though it is not known if the cause was a Dauntless bomb or one of Cram’s torpedoes.

Wildcats and Zeros were exchanging fire behind the lumbering PBY. After delivering his attack, Cram turned left to regain the Marine perimeter. One Zero riddled the PBY and closed for the kill. A Wildcat got behind the Zero and brought it down on the edge of Henderson Field. Both Cram and his PBY survived this harrowing experience.

#PBY Catalina #PTO #USMC #WW2 #Aviation #Naval