Obama to ban Christmas Cards on Military Bases

[Campbell]

A business cannot blatantly fire you or lay you off if you are on your military duty. But it wouldn't surprise me if they have ways around that. I had a friend who worked for the city of San Jose as an engineer....he went to an interview for a higher paying position in the department. During the interview, one of the interviewers asked him if his reserve duty would adversely affect him doing his job. He smiled and asked when they wanted him to start work.......the question was illegal to ask and if they didn't hire him after that, he would sue..........and win.

When a person joins the military it is generally treated as a voluntary resignation from your position. Employers are not obligated to maintain your employment status while you are on military service. What actually happens is that members of the military generally have a right to re-employment after their service is completed, or (if in the Reserves or National Guard) after their deployment is over and they come back home. This is not automatic and the service member must comply with some minor stipulations; you must give advance notice to your employer that you are leaving for military service, your service must be honorable, you must be timely in reporting back to your former employer, and you must be separated from your former employer for no more than five years. In addition to the right to re-employment employers are prohibited from discriminating against employees on account of their military service, to including consideration for promotions or raises, or from taking adverse action against an individual, such as terminating someone on account of their impending departure for military service.

That being said, employers retain the right to make terminate employment for any other lawful reason. And where employers generally have a right to terminate an employee for no reason at all, the employer can still legally terminate the employee. The primary legal recourse for an employee who believes they have been terminated based on illegal discrimination would be to file a lawsuit, where the terminated employee would have the burden of proof to support the claim of discrimination. Employers can successfully defeat a discrimination claim, even if the reason for termination was in fact discriminatory, by progressing an employee through standard disciplinary/documentation measures for poor performance and/or misconduct.

Generally speaking, most employers can "trump up" adequate grounds to initiate disciplinary actions fairly easily. This can be something as simple as documenting an employee for being 5 minutes late. As long as the employer adheres to the company's standard policies for disciplinary action, and adequately covers itself from providing ammunition the employee can use to demonstrate or imply discrimination, it is extremely unlikely that an employee would be able to bring a successful claim.

That last paragraph describes the kind of crap that company management gets away with these days. I would have liked to see them try something like that back when we had unions and earned enough to call ourselves "Middle Class." You Know....back before Reagan and the Bushes:

..........................Total U S Debt...........................

09/30/2014 $17,824,071,380,733.82
09/30/2013 $16,738,183,526,697.32
09/30/2012 $16,066,241,407,385.89
09/30/2011 $14,790,340,328,557.15
09/30/2010 $13,561,623,030,891.79
09/30/2009 $11,909,829,003,511.75(80% Of All Debt Across 232 Years Borrowed By Reagan And Bushes)
09/30/2008 $10,024,724,896,912.49(Times Square Debt Clock Modified To Accommodate Tens of Trillions)
09/30/2007 $9,007,653,372,262.48
09/30/2006 $8,506,973,899,215.23
09/30/2005 $7,932,709,661,723.50
09/30/2004 $7,379,052,696,330.32
09/30/2003 $6,783,231,062,743.62(Second Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16
09/30/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06(First Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Using Reconciliation)
09/30/2000 $5,674,178,209,886.86(Administration And Congress Arguing About How To Use Surplus)
09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43(First Surplus Generated...On Track To Pay Off Debt By 2012)
09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1997 $5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73
09/29/1995 $4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32
09/30/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38(Bill Clinton Raised Top Marginal Tax Rates)
(Debt Quadrupled By Reagan/Bush41)
09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66
09/30/1991 $3,665,303,351,697.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25
09/29/1989 $2,857,430,960,187.32
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00
09/30/1986 $2,125,302,616,658.42
09/30/1985 $1,823,103,000,000.00
09/30/1984 $1,572,266,000,000.00
09/30/1983 $1,377,210,000,000.00
09/30/1982 $1,142,034,000,000.00(Total Debt Passes $1Trillion)(Reagan Slashed Tax Rates To Pre Depression Levels)
09/30/1981 $997,855,000,000.00

 

[SwimExpert]

That last paragraph describes the kind of crap that company management gets away with these days.

You're right, they get away with it. And who lets them get away with it? The very workers who agreed to take the job at a low price.

 

[Campbell]

That last paragraph describes the kind of crap that company management gets away with these days.

You're right, they get away with it. And who lets them get away with it? The very workers who agreed to take the job at a low price.

Yeah...because every time a work group decides to vote in a union the primary organizers are methodically fired. Goddam companies have gotten away with bloody murder for over thirty years. If I was fifty instead of 80 I'd begin a movement to organize workers all over the world and put a stop to what's going on. A global organized work force would put a stop to this bullshit. When adjusted for inflation the lower half of ordinary American workers are earning less than they were in the 1970's. That's Just Not Right. Notice the upper 1% line and where it was headed at the end of Clinton's two terms just before George W. Bush cut taxes in 2001 and 2003 and proceeded to borrow $6 trillion from foreign banks to cover his increased spending:

 

[Stephanie]

I just can wait for this bunch of Progressive PUKES to be gone from our lives and hope the people have has enough of them when it's time to vote in 2016

a bunch of American hating sickos running our country

 

[The VOR]

I just can wait for this bunch of Progressive PUKES to be gone from our lives and hope the people have has enough of them when it's time to vote in 2016

a bunch of American hating sickos running our country

You are totally clueless, LOL.

 

[PlainDarkSeadan]

I'd need some independent confirmation on this, and I very much hope the story is wrong.

FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

 

[PlainDarkSeadan]

False.
FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

 

[Seawytch]

I'd need some independent confirmation on this, and I very much hope the story is wrong.

FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

Snopes is a Soros plot.

 

[Mac1958]

I'd need some independent confirmation on this, and I very much hope the story is wrong.

FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

Why am I not shocked...
.

 

[mdk]

I'd need some independent confirmation on this, and I very much hope the story is wrong.

FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

But, but the Liberty Institute’s Director of Litigation, Hyman Stratcher, said otherwise. lol

 

[jillian]

I'd need some independent confirmation on this, and I very much hope the story is wrong.

FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

Why am I not shocked...
.

I don't know what you're shocked about... they didn't even give us a chance to bet on how early they would start the war on Christmas silliness. this must be a new record.

 

[playtime]

I just can wait for this bunch of Progressive PUKES to be gone from our lives and hope the people have has enough of them when it's time to vote in 2016

a bunch of American hating sickos running our country

silly you.

 

[bodecea]

I just can wait for this bunch of Progressive PUKES to be gone from our lives and hope the people have has enough of them when it's time to vote in 2016

a bunch of American hating sickos running our country

Stephanie hates the Middle Class and wants it completely destroyed.

 

[flacaltenn]

Appears this is an "Onion" type site who's whole purpose is to spoof FoxNews and make conservatives go crazy.

www.tdalliance.com

That "story" is right above THIS one..

Can't make HONEST attacks on Conservatives -- so the 3 leftists with a sense of humor stated a parody website..

 

[flacaltenn]

And Jillian -- For the Record -- THIS war on Christmas scuffle was started by "your side"..

At least the site is somewhat funny... No where near the Onion and with a venomous focused hate for FoxNews

 

[SwimExpert]

Yeah...because every time a work group decides to vote in a union the primary organizers are methodically fired.

What the Hell are you talking about? Did you, or did you not receive a job offer for your current position?

Did you, or did you not, agree to the job in exchange to a specific amount of pay?

If you want more money, learn to become a better negotiator.

 

[jillian]

And Jillian -- For the Record -- THIS war on Christmas scuffle was started by "your side"..

At least the site is somewhat funny... No where near the Onion and with a venomous focused hate for FoxNews

No. Bill o'Reilly starts it every year.

 

[SwimExpert]

And Jillian -- For the Record -- THIS war on Christmas scuffle was started by "your side"..

At least the site is somewhat funny... No where near the Onion and with a venomous focused hate for FoxNews

No. Bill o'Reilly starts it every year.

Is Bill O'Reilly anyone's side? He's more like the kid who got picked dead last in kickball, and just kinda floats around aimlessly in the outfield, running every which direction everyone else runs.

 

[bodecea]

I'd need some independent confirmation on this, and I very much hope the story is wrong.

FALSE: Obama Launches First Salvo in War on Christmas

Why am I not shocked...
.

I don't know what you're shocked about... they didn't even give us a chance to bet on how early they would start the war on Christmas silliness. this must be a new record.

I'm not impressed unless they parade out the War on Christmas BEFORE WalMart parades out their Christmas decorations.

 

[Campbell]

I just can wait for this bunch of Progressive PUKES to be gone from our lives and hope the people have has enough of them when it's time to vote in 2016

a bunch of American hating sickos running our country

I've gottcher progressive puke a schwanging. All in the world modern Republicans stand for is tax cuts for the wealthy. That damned Cruz is already talking about a flat tax. What a flat tax means in practice is a 10%-15% tax cut for the wealthy and adding taxes to the lowest earners in the country. Percentage wise the lowest earners in the country are already paying more taxes. Taxes they pay every day are totally insignificant to a rich person but to an average person added together all the taxes, fees, etc. add up to a much higher percentage of their income.