re: should a job give you back the days you missed due to the flooding?

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Sure, but none of what you quoted deals with lenders.

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I'm just saying that exceptions are usually made in times like these. I can't speak for all those different industries suspending repayment, but I'd imagine at least some of them do just that.

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I guess I don't see the problem with allowing an employee to use PTO. It's unscheduled, you still get paid, you still have a job, etc.

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And if they have no PTO, along with no vehicle or roof over their head? frick'em?

My wife's office doesn't even want to pay her to go up there and clean up after the flood

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Everyone expects gestures of good will from businesses. Why don't we expect it from employees as well?

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You're making them money and it would most certainly cost them more than you make to replace you

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What a fricking pathetically self entitled batch of pricks Americans have become.

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Excellent post. It bewilders me that anyone would just expect to get paid for not working. It's great if the business can do it, and I would encourage it, but it's CHARITY, plain and simple. Money for nothing, for those in need. God bless those who can afford to give.

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You're making them money

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No, in this case, you're asking to be paid for NOT making them money. Beyond what they already give you in PTO.

If they can and will do it, great, but you are certainly not entitled to it.

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Those folks I mentioned like insurances, leases and advertising are not "lenders"... They're vendors, aka businesses. If I don't pay them, they can't give their employees "the days they missed due to flooding".



You're aware that suspending repayment doesn't mean just never collecting it, right? Because following the logic of what I quoted leads me to believe you aren't.

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So, now you've taken this discussion of whether an employee is entitled to get paid for work not done to whether a business owner's lenders will suspend their debt? And a discussion of never repay or just delay it?

Am I supposed to interpolate this to mean that now you would like the biz owner to go back to the employee and ask for him to repay his hours later?

Again, people like insurers, landlords, and advertisers are not lenders. More likely, their the employers that you want free money from, that biz owners will do their best to pay, not "suspend" payment as you suggest.

These same vendors have employees to pay also. I realize this is complicated for you... hence your side of the argument.

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would you expect them

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I would not expect it because there is no rule or law that says they have to compensate you for the time you missed because of what happened, however; I think it is the appropriate thing to do.

In other words, expect the worst, hope for the best.

After Katrina, I know my cousin in New Orleans had her job with Harrah's....sh*t.. what DIDN'T they do for her. After everything they did, I became a lifelong customer of theirs.

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not mandatory, but it sure is nice. when Katrina hit, the company i worked for continued paying everyone 40hrs a week until they could come back to work. I was out for a month and never missed a paycheck

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The handouts are pretty nice when the shoe is on the other foot huh?

You are comparing people who have worked for decades for a company and made it successful to generations of families who never worked a day in their life. Nice.