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Screaming Bean
Friday, November 03, 2006

Part of my job is to update volumes in the library. Sometimes boring, drudge work, I try to make it bit more interesting in glancing over the material as I update it in the books. Today I updated Labor Guides, and in particular state specific materials. Each state had its own little section on wage law, garnishment, hours, and holidays. It amazed me how many states do not have a minimum wage at all, but rather are reliant on whatever the federal standard is. Secondly, this "training wage" stuff sounds like a scam. If you're under 20, certain states allow an employer to pay even less than minumum wage for at least 90 days in most cases under the guise of training. What's to keep an employer to firing the person at the end of the period and get some other poor young schlub? And lastly, certain states have some damn strange holidays. Most states actually have election day as a legal holiday, including my own. Of course, the "legal holidays" only apply to state workers, as if they need an excuse for more days off. I say make it a holiday for everyone. And even stranger yet, some states include Saturday from 12:00pm to 12:00am Sunday as a holiday. Why? I'm not quite sure, but any excuse for some time off, right?

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