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Steve Baas, Lab Rats and Sacrificial Lambs

By Cory @ One Wisconsin Now - Nov 22nd, 2008 at 10:48 am EST

Also listed in: Corporate Watch | Making Work Pay | Wisconsin Women Matter

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting that a University of Chicago based researcher is enthusiastic about Milwaukee’s paid sick days ordinance. Inexplicably the business page reporter described it as “controversial.” A strange use of words since it was overwhelmingly passed by nearly 70 percent of Milwaukee voters. The only people that are creating a controversy are the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) and their mouthpiece Steve Baas.

The researcher referenced in the story is Susan Lambert, a professor in the School of Social Service Administration and an authority on the relationship between employment and the well-being of those that are employed. Lambert says that she thinks that Milwaukee’s Paid Sick Days ordinance is “great overall.” She went on to point out the following:

A key barrier to sustained employment is having the opportunity to take time off when you or your child is ill," said Lambert, who's speaking Sunday in Milwaukee as part of an annual lecture for alumni and friends of the University of Chicago. "That certainly is reported by workers, especially in low-level hourly jobs, as something that prevents them from sustained employment.

Lambert also went on to explain that such unnecessary turnover among this group of workers only leads to higher costs for employers in the form of additional recruiting, hiring and training. It seems reasonable to me that even those new employees could be vulnerable to the same forces and create what amounts to a revolving door of unnecessary costs to business. Read More »

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