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Originally Posted by badgeguy
Just like chick fil a.....
I think the one day versus a six weeks of essentially paying two people is what one would think businesses would want...
I'm all for choices. Each individual has a choice. Business and government shouldn't interfere with those.
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The two scenarios aren't equivalent. Businesses that close one day a week every week are closed for what comes close to two months' time. That's a significant amount of profit to decide that you don't want to pursue. Its a business decision to be made, pure and simple.
American women aren't guaranteed paid maternity leave. In fact, only businesses that are large enough to fall under the provisions of the Family Medical Leave Act have to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. Do some companies choose to provide paid benefits? Sure, but talking about a retail operation like Hobby Lobby doing so for the vast majority of their hourly employees (who are the most impacted by the company's decision regarding birth control) is just not likely. My point is that if an hourly employee goes on maternity leave there, they're probably not paying two people.
To your second point, Hobby Lobby is not telling their employees that they can't decide to use any form of birth control. Just that they don't want to pay for it.
Does it make sense to pay for birth control as a business decision? Maybe. It depends on your business model.
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