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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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The absolute absurdity of work without pay becomes blatantly obvious when you reverse the situation.
Imagine you going to your boss and asking them if they could pay you for 10 hours of work even though you only worked 8 today.
It'd be considered ridiculous. But it's the same thing.
In a employment relationship you got a contract stating the conditions in which you trade your time and skilled labor for money and benefits.
Neither side should feel entitled to free handouts on top.
The problem arises when one party of the contract has much more control over the other party in said contract.
How is PTO ridiculous, exactly?
PTO is a finite resource and the equivalent of being paid overtime. Demanding your employees work overtime without pay is an infinite resource, much like demanding your boss to pay you for an unscheduled day off or time you didn't work that doesn't get covered by PTO.
That would be part of the benefits he is referring to.
This is PTO.
PTO is necessary because life happens.
Overtime is only needed when the company isn't being managed properly.
You are still comparing something that a regular person can only have one of at a time, to a business which has multiple employees. Its like comparing 100% of time to <5% of a company.
You'd have a point if every single employee would take PTO at the same time. Then they would be paying and no work would get done.