Starbucks said Thursday it will give its 200,000 U.S. employees flexibility on Election Day, encouraging them to plan ahead with managers and schedule time to vote or volunteer at polling places. The Starbucks app will also help customers learn how to register to vote, the company said.
But this year, the idea is gaining steam. Six hundred companies, including Lyft, Airbnb and Paramount, have signed on to ElectionDay.org, which asks companies to give employees time off to vote or distribute information on voting, including how to obtain main-in ballots. It is not clear how many of those 600 are allowing time off versus distributing voting information.
“There is a groundswell of interest coming out for this,” said Nora Gilbert, director of partnerships for Vote.org. In a letter to employees, Starbucks President and CEO Kevin Johnson said the company’s voting pledge is part of a larger effort to promote racial equality and opportunity in the communities it serves.About half of U.S. states require employers to give workers at least a few hours off to vote inGilbert said advocates prefer a full-day holiday, since many voters face long lines at their polling places.
Jonathan Entin, a professor emeritus of law and adjunct professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University, said weekend voting would be difficult in the U.S. because of its religious diversity. Opponents of a federal holiday also usually cite the disruption to the economy, he said.Peter Paladjian, the CEO of Boston-based Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., said companies want to show that they are responsible and civic-minded.
Harvard University, Wayfair, Bank of America and the Boston Red Sox are among the 185 companies that have signed up, he said. Only a handful of companies he contacted said no. Once this election is over, Paladjian plans to advocate for a federal election holiday.
CocaCola Hides behind the bottling companies when they put out promotion slogans like this. They give the day off for their employees which is a very small group of executives. So it’s nice to hear they’re off but those out there lifting and throw in the cases. are not
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Make Election day a federal holiday and remove Christopher Columbus Day from the list. Two birds...one stone.
I thought this already a given in OSHA laws or something like that. . . People were allowed the time off to vote. Not the whole day but time to vote. Did I miss something or is this just like a California thing?
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Really ABC especially when 'millions' are still unemployed due to COVID19. Isis
It’s called record unemployment
That's very insulting; it implies that the workers are bad at time management.
Awesome
Republican wanna keep voter turnout down. They don’t want to hear people getting off to vote.
dont they do that anyways? pretty sure its against the law to not let an employee go vote...
Time off so they can mail a ballot?
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A growing number of U.S. companies are pledging to give workers time off to vote in the presidential eating contest this November.
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Why? Everybody is out of work. I got all day to vote!
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That’s already a rule. Giving employees time to vote.. why are they making it as if this is new news..
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