How A Giant Restaurant Conglomerate Teamed Up With Banks To Stiff Its Workers

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26. These fine folks also fought against healthcare and paid sick days for employees.

You know, because nothing spells freedom like a sick person forced to work in foodservice.


http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Darden_Restaurants
At this link, you'll also read about their other shabby behavior, including ALEC membership.

Darden has fought hard against new laws and regulations on paid sick days policies, which would allow workers to stay at home when sick without risking their paycheck or their job. In Florida, Darden helped write and pass a bill that would ban local governments from requiring paid sick days for workers. [23] [24] Forty percent of all workers do not have paid sick days; existing federal law covers only employees working 25 hours or more at businesses with at least 50 workers, applies only to serious and not routine illnesses, and is unpaid.[25]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/darden-medicaid-california_n_3466638.html

Darden Restaurants has run into an obstacle in its battle against Obamacare: the state of California.

On Tuesday, the Orlando Sentinel first reported that Clarence Otis, the CEO of the fast-casual chain that owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden, is fighting a bill that intends to prevent companies from cutting workers’ hours to avoid paying for insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

If the legislation is enacted, large employers will be forced to pay an average additional penalty of roughly $5,500 to the state for any employee who works full time and chooses Medicaid coverage, Jimmy Gomez (D), the bill’s sponsor and a California State Assembly member, told The Huffington Post. The penalty will be prorated depending on the average number of hours employees work during the year, he added.