Thousands of workers petition Amazon for paid time off to vote

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Thousands of Amazon's tech workers have signed a petition calling for the e-commerce giant to provide paid time off to all of its employees to vote.
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Isn’t that a federal law?

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Paid? Not that I’m aware of. And in some places, it is literally hours in line.

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More info: State by State Laws on Voting Leave Policy | Workplace Fairness

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I missed the paid part.

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Even without the paid part, the law varies by state. You could be scheduled to work through the whole day and you’re screwed in some states.

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Most states have early voting and/or voting by mail. I’m pretty sure my workplace allows unpaid time off to vote if your work schedule wouldn’t allow for it.

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In 1992 in my part of Kansas I thought I would pop in to vote over my lunch hour. I left at 11 and got back to the office at 2. Shortly after that they started early voting. I was fortunate in that I was an exempt employee so I got paid. Nonexempt weren’t so lucky. What is somewhat surprising to me is that my county announced three additional early voting spots and we are a Republican county. I would have expected a push to stop early voting with some explanation that it enables fraud, but Republicans have been winning so it’s OK. But we have a Senate race coming up and the Democrat has a good shot
And becoming the first Democrat from Kansas in over 70 years. Should that happen I fully expect to see a push away from early voting

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