Same in my home state. I guess it all comes down to choice. The thing with SD’s inconsistency, if that is their basis of decision, is that they think it’s not a choice to work at a place if you don’t want to breath smoke, but it is a choice to work there if you’re pregnant. It’s just so infuriating.
Edit: off topic for this post, but adding a bit to clarify my previous comment. I’m not advocating for or against the smoking thing. Point I’m trying to make is that i think we’d all be a bit better off if our laws had some consistent (and ideally benevolent) systematic logic guiding their formation. It’s akin to my frustration at having all these archaic, unenforceable laws on the books. I read one somewhere that it was illegal to be nude. In your home. Silly and unenforceable, but it ensures that if you want to catch someone out, you can. Everyone has broken some law at some point, if you want to dig. It leaves it up to enforcement to decide which laws to enforce, and usually upon whom. It’s a legal framework for discrimination and worse.
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The business owner is free to so refuse. There is no gun to their head, metaphorical, hyperbolic or otherwise, forcing them to stay in business.
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Other than the employer forcing the employee to either submit to their desires, or risk starvation on the street.
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No one is forcing anyone else to be a part of civilized society; if one doesn’t like the way society is set up, then one is “free to leave it, at any time.”
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Only if they refuse to compromise.
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South Dakota lawmaker blocks workplace protection for pregnant workers: “It’s not prison. You can quit.”
Lead by example, Rep. Steinhauer.
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In which case, in your apparent way of thinking, they are forced to accept the conditions the employer wants. As long as the employer can offer something that’s better than the alternative, without the intervention of the government they can get away with anything.
For that matter, if it weren’t for the government’s intervention, what would prevent the employer from making it impossible to leave? Is slavery preferable to the government’s “threat of violence”? Just how far are you willing to take this idea? At what point does this “force” from the government stop being a bad thing, in your eyes?
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Like your entire fallacious argument here?
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You’re two shakes away for advocating for slavery. You know that, right?
@Nonentity essentially beat me to it, but I’m leaving this here, because obvious things sometimes need to remain obvious.
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It just outright denied that slavery still exists.
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So it did. Maybe it lives in a basement. Or a cave. Or Mississippi.
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Anything is possible; from being an actual sociopath to just being a professional troll.
I honestly kinda hope it’s the latter; I can at least comprehend that particular motive for being so needlessly antisocial/inhumane.
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I don’t fear the actions of most individuals, I do fear the actions of individuals in large groups that are each convinced they bear no particular personal responsibility for the actions of their group. In my country, we refer to such groups as corporations.
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