Why Major Companies Are Paying Employees To Skip Work On Election Day

With Republicans working overtime to suppress Democratic voters - it's a really nice gesture that many companies are trying to make it financially easier for employees to vote.
Telling that it’s the private sector stepping up – where it’s the role and responsibility of the states to safeguard citizens’ right to vote.

And many states have by enacting early voting and voting by mail – thus addressing the ‘first Tuesday’ anachronism.

But Republican-controlled states have clearly failed the voters – by opposing early voting, voting over an extended number of days, and closing voting venues in minority communities.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
If they're encouraging people to vote in person then good.

 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.

Employers have been doing this a long time, why is it news now?
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.

Interesting, every company I've worked for over the last 40 years always gave time off to vote.

What color are you? Many black and brown voters aren't so lucky.


Racist....
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
Which states don’t have early voting? Or vote by mail?
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
It’s not patriotic voting for dumb Don or dumb Joe. It’s dumb.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
It’s not patriotic voting for dumb Don or dumb Joe. It’s dumb.
It's going to be one or the other so might as well have your voice heard and choose the least worst.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
It’s not patriotic voting for dumb Don or dumb Joe. It’s dumb.
It's going to be one or the other so might as well have your voice heard and choose the least worst.
If you can prove which one is worse beyond all doubt, I might consider it.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.

Interesting, every company I've worked for over the last 40 years always gave time off to vote.

What color are you? Many black and brown voters aren't so lucky.

Please explain.
 
Funny, I've never had trouble finding time to vote. I guess moron Democrats are too stupid to figure it out though.

Yup. I vote early and have no trouble at all. Before I voted early I'd stop by after work. Again, no trouble at all. Of course it was crowded so that's when I decided Early voting was the way to go. You can vote on weekends with early voting. No problem.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.

Interesting, every company I've worked for over the last 40 years always gave time off to vote.
Here in Ohio it's the law.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.


I don't think pussygrabber or his "sucker and losers" cult followers are going to like that, they are going to claim it is fraud...


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First off, your post is disgusting. Why gross people out?

And Secondly, working class tends to be Trump supporters. (Even unions in private industries are leaning more toward trump) .
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
Great idea since most of the people working will vote republican!
 
I don't know where you people live, but it's never taken me more than 15 minutes to vote and I've voted in every single election since 1972.
 
I don't know where you people live, but it's never taken me more than 15 minutes to vote and I've voted in every single election since 1972.

But I'm sure you read the stories of people standing in line for hours to vote in other places.
 
Funny, I've never had trouble finding time to vote. I guess moron Democrats are too stupid to figure it out though.

Yup. I vote early and have no trouble at all. Before I voted early I'd stop by after work. Again, no trouble at all. Of course it was crowded so that's when I decided Early voting was the way to go. You can vote on weekends with early voting. No problem.

I always wait until the last 15 minutes before the place closes to vote. Usually I'm the only one there or very few other people.
 
And the outdated reason we’re still voting on a Tuesday in the year 2020.

To clear the path to the polls this November — and to bump the country’s abysmal voter turnout rates — hundreds of companies including Coca-Cola, Nike, PayPal and Uber are offering employees a paid day off (or other benefits) to encourage voting.

“There’s a recognition that you’ve got to make it easier for people to vote, or at least make sure that they’re not facing an impossible choice,” says Franz Paasche, senior vice president of corporate affairs at PayPal. “We want to make sure that we give people the flexibility so that they don’t have to make a choice between being able to earn a paycheck that day or being able to vote.”

PayPal employees can take four hours of paid time off to go the polls on Election Day, and the company is also encouraging them to volunteer as poll workers.

Along with executives at Patagonia and Levi Strauss & Co., PayPal’s Paasche was one of the organizers of a corporate campaign called Time to Vote, launched ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. Now with over 700 member companies — all offering some form of encouragement for their more than 6 million employees to participate in the upcoming election — the non-partisan effort is raising awareness around the importance of elections and citizen participation.


Sounds great. Hopefully even more employers will participate in this patriotic endeavor. People who want to vote should not have to choose between voting and losing pay. And having election day on a Tuesday should definitely be changed.
It’s not patriotic voting for dumb Don or dumb Joe. It’s dumb.

What's dumb is when people bitch about their politicians, and they never went out to vote for them or their opponent. Don't vote--don't bitch is what I always say.
 

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