Companies Make Push to Give Workers Time to Vote

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Hundreds of U.S. companies plan to give employees time off to vote in the presidential election as part of a business-led push to lift turnout

Hundreds of U.S. companies plan to give employees time off to vote in this year’s presidential election as part of a business-led push to lift the nation’s traditionally low voter turnout.

At least 383 companies, with more than two million workers in 50 states, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Target Corp., Best Buy Co. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., have signed on to the Time to Vote initiative. Organizers said they aim to enlist 1,000 companies by November, more than double the number that participated in a similar...

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LOL Most are lucky to get a bathroom break!LOL

About f****** time

Lets make presidential general election days, a federal holiday.

Shouldn't that be legally required?

The turnout will only benefit business if the employees vote Republican.

Time off to vote Something 3rd world countries have been doing for decades. Hey, never too late.

if they have Saturday as voting day then there wont be problems Never mind theJews They are just weird

If this country actually wanted citizens to vote it would be a holiday and there would be guaranteed early voting and poll stations guaranteed to be within 1/2 hour travel time for all citizens, but, yeah, the grifters in charge don’t actually want everyone voting.

Trump scares business too with his choice of who’s in and out.

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