Virginia’s new law permits workers in companies with 10 or more employees to tap into a program to receive up to 80% of their pay while on leave. Though it will entail some initial state funding to set up, eventually the program would be jointly funded as most employers and employees pay into it over time.
While NoVA drives most of these progressive policies, and is why northern and southern yanks alike make distinctions between the South and “the South,” I still believe that once southerners burn out on their grandparents’ race and culture wars and rediscover the labor-centric politics of generations prior, the ever-troubled North American South East really will become a textbook example of what’s possible when workers unite.
While NoVA drives most of these progressive policies, and is why northern and southern yanks alike make distinctions between the South and “the South,” I still believe that once southerners burn out on their grandparents’ race and culture wars and rediscover the labor-centric politics of generations prior, the ever-troubled North American South East really will become a textbook example of what’s possible when workers unite.