Apple employees granted paid time off to vote in US election
Apple is offering retail and hourly employees time off to vote in the U.S. election in November, according to a report on Friday.
Apple SVP of retail and staff Deidre O'Brien announced the policy in a memo circulated this week, reports Bloomberg.
"For retail team members and hourly workers across the company, if you're scheduled to work this Election Day, we'll be providing up to four hours of paid time off if you need it to get to the polls," O'Brien said. "If they choose, our teams can also use this time to volunteer as an election worker at one of your local polling stations."
The company is allowing up to four hours of paid leave on Election Day, which falls on Nov. 3.
Apple joins a number of major tech companies including Lyft, Twitter and Uber to offer employees time off to vote. Like previous election seasons, big firms from a variety of U.S. industries are allowing workers to take time off to cast their ballots.
Apple SVP of retail and staff Deidre O'Brien announced the policy in a memo circulated this week, reports Bloomberg.
"For retail team members and hourly workers across the company, if you're scheduled to work this Election Day, we'll be providing up to four hours of paid time off if you need it to get to the polls," O'Brien said. "If they choose, our teams can also use this time to volunteer as an election worker at one of your local polling stations."
The company is allowing up to four hours of paid leave on Election Day, which falls on Nov. 3.
Apple joins a number of major tech companies including Lyft, Twitter and Uber to offer employees time off to vote. Like previous election seasons, big firms from a variety of U.S. industries are allowing workers to take time off to cast their ballots.
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You don't know that it is new.
Such freedoms are always in danger from those who think there know Brest for everyone.
Vote!
Since Apple is headquartered in California, it's important to know that the state already mandates up to two (2) hours of paid time to vote, with as much time as needed for workers to vote.
For information on your state, check out the link below:
What is the law in my state?
https://www.workplacefairness.org/voting-rights-time-off-work
Yes. They know their only chance of winning at this point is preventing people from voting.
I think it's unusual, and very pioneering for employees that are paid hourly. Yes, as a salaried employee, voting was always encouraged, and all my bosses were very flexible in providing the time that was necessary to do so.
Then maybe you should educate yourself about it instead of acting like it’s a joke. There are still plenty of places that aren’t offering the option to vote by mail, where polling places are shut down, where people have to wait in line all day long just to do their civic duty of voting.
I vote by fax as an American living outside the USA. Never had a problem. I assume my votes are properly counted, although my libertarian-leaning conservative votes don’t have much impact on a Blue CA ballot. I vote nonetheless.
I hope people can vote by the internet one day, having their SSN, drivers license, etc. verified by computer to ensure my vote can only be cast one time. The more convenient voting is, the more people will do it. If more Americans would vote, I think fraud and errors would become little more than statistical anomalies that have no impact.
P.S. Posting in this forum on an iPhone is hell. My request for the Desktop version is ignored in mobile Safari and the AI app is no better, so it’s impossible for me to get rid of this silly quoting. This forum needs to be more mobile friendly!
Waiting in line is not common in the "backward communities" of the South. We have had automation for longer than I can remember. Why the big places cannot automate better is beyond me. There are many things we are ahead of big cities.
We have almost instant drive up free virus testing in Health Departments. Some had the foresight to build permanent outside shelters a long time ago.
What we all need to do it to track politicians at all levels on their promises and call them out when they don't produce. Note, I did not say protest in a violent manner. People who steal from insurance companies and less educated people need to be exposed for what they are - white collar thieves. We would find out there are many liars in politics, as well as medicine, etc.
I would rather see people who make promises exposed than be given 4 hours to vote when we have early voting in most elections. The machines are locked up , guarded and both parties are allowed poll watchers to report errors. There is no valid reason for polls to be jammed on Election Day. If I don't know prior to Election Day who I want to vote for, I probably should not be voting on that line of the ballot.
Yes, even unqualified people vote - even those who cannot read or understand what is on the ballot. Never the less, if they are registered to vote, they are entitled to vote. Illegals are not citizens and should not vote. Any one who is a registered voter should not mind showing a proper Government Photo ID to validate who they are. I guess I don't understand the problems in big cities.
People seem to want paid time off to do everything . That is what personal leave is for - it is personal.
Whomever you vote for - please do take the time to vote - it’s an important right to exercise that people have fought for.
'A republic, Madison writes, is different from a democracy because its government is placed in the hands of delegates, and, as a result of this, it can be extended over a larger area. The idea is that, in a large republic, there will be more "fit characters" to choose from for each delegate.'