President Joe Biden plans to sign executive orders boosting workers' rights and pushing for a $15 minimum wage for federal staff

President Joe Biden plans to sign two executive orders Friday focused on workers' rights.
One will ensure people can still claim employment benefits if they turn down a job that poses a risk to their health.
The other paves the way to further legislation on Biden's promise of a $15 hourly minimum wage.

President Joe Biden has planned a series of actions aimed at raising the minimum wage for federal staff to $15 and boosting workers' rights, Brian Deese, his National Economic Council director, told reporters Thursday.

This includes two executive orders Biden is set to sign Friday.

As part of the first order, the Department of Labor will be asked to clarify that people seeking employment can continue claiming benefits if they turn down a job because it puts them at substantial risk of catching COVID-19.

The order will provide workers "a federally guaranteed right to refuse employment that will jeopardize their health, and if they do so, they will still qualify for unemployment insurance," White House officials said, per The New York Times.

A second executive order Biden is expected to sign Friday focuses on rights for federal staff.

ing idiots, they aren't aware, or surely are that's why they're doing this

by increasing the minimal wage they're inevitably working for higher taxes down the road, the deep state always wins

another important notion that you won't hear on CNN is, that when you increase it, by doing so, you automatically destroy the small and medium businesses that can't keep up with the pace and aren't profitable enough to pay these salaries, thus the Big Technocratic Companies always win and Google, Amazon, Walmart etc. all end up buying these same companies

now you know, when politicians are "fighting for your rights", they're basically fighting for the wealthiest top elites

hope i made myself clear

I thought biden was not président
So who cares?

pin this GLP

Traitor Joe is a FRAUD, he was installed by the radical left by way of MASSIVE voter fraud and therefore is NOT the true president of the United States. Donald John Trump won the Electoral College in a landslide.

What federal employee is even making less than $15 per hour anyway? There can't be many.

He couldn't follow through with the Federally mandated $15 minimum wage that he promised, so he did it for Federal workers? Who by and large already make more money than that?

LMAO after signing nearly 50k people up for unemployment on his first day by revoking the permit for Keystone XL.


This is already shaping up to be a hilarious presidency.

There are small and medium sized Federal businesses?

OP is right generally speaking, goes for the Main Street and all the other Federal emoployees

that and they'll Jack up the prices on everything from water to toilet paper when this goes into effect..

those that have a hard time even supporting themselves as it is.. will be on the streets very soon..

if anything.. it should be given to those that have been with their employer for more than 2 years..

this is a bunch of load

Not only does it kill small businesses leaving us with only mega corporations, but it also hurts the most vulnerable workers.

What people don't understand is that minimum wage is not how much you get paid no matter how little you're worth. It's the minimum you need to be worth to get paid anything at all. It's a real insult, when you think about it. "You're not even worth $15 an hour, so you can take an internship or stay unemployed because you're literally worthless. "

Minimum wage makes it illegal to negotiate compensation any less than the government mandate. Don't need $15 an hour? Know you're not worth $15 an hour because you're a dumb high school kid trying to blow time during the summer? Well too bad, sugarpuff. The legal minimum pay must guarantee that you can support a family of 5 working at McDonald's. You'll need to live with your parents, watch tv and smoke weed until you magically become worth at least the bare minimum.

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FEDERAL STAFF??

I doubt the janitors that work in a government building make less than 15 an hour.. This shit is really starting to fucking stink.

It is a real shame that Dems fail to understand basic economics. "The greater good for the greater number" is only a tool for them to use when it buys the sucker's vote. Then, it changes to rape the sucker for the greater good for their pockets.
But, hey...if paying $7 for a gallon of milk is ok with everyone, so be it.

Was just gonna say same thing .. is there such a thing ?? ... even the lowest skilled federal worker makes a ton of money along with health packege .. 401k .. paid sick paid vacation... u know, all the stuff a reg American doesn’t get ...

15 hell ya

Who is President Joe Biden? Ah, I see. You mean China Joe?

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minimum wage for federal staff, but no private sector workers, that's ridiculous.

everything is about creating a special government worker privileged class that will be loyal to them, steal from the public and give it to them and implicate them in the theft

and with a bogus executive order no less, as if executive orders are somehow constitutional or legal.

whatever you let them get away with is legal , I guess

Someone show me a federal job paying less then $15/hr

Won't be much left. WalMart gonna squall when this wage hits their personnel offices.

This is why I hate the left. Always looking to
give the small guys a leg up.
The only people that matter are billionairs, I work so they can have an extra billion.

That's my president!!!


Trump would never do that!

ROFL FOR FEDERAL WORKERS ONLY
YOU DUMBASS LIBERALS!!!
ROFL you can not Make this up wow

They don’t get it. Those that clap about all of this have no understanding of economics. They think it’s free money this, free school that, free healthcare, etc, etc... but never consider the implications or sources. Trying to explain the money supply, inflation, and the morality of involuntary wealth redistribution is about equal to teaching a giraffe to fly a plane.

And they have done such a magnificent job in all the years they've been in office. NOT. Stay on their plantation. They like you there.

There needs to be online outrage over this! Stir those libtards up! Where is my $15 an hour for flipping a burger? Where is my stimulus money!

Well, AOC and the rest of the Bernies will start the fight for mandatory 15 dollars a hour for ALL.

Going to be some marches comin,... Uncle Joe.

I am unemployed and looking. 15 a hour in some super easy do nothing job with health benefits/paid vacation would be perfect.

Show us a federal job that pays less then $15 right now.
So Trump never had to do it shit bird

They virtue signaled in Commiefornia by raising the minimum wage in to 15 an hour going into effect by 2022

Then they turned right around and took it all back by raising Taxes on a whole slew of things that directly affect poor people the most.

The main thing was to raise taxes on gasoline because they want poor people riding the bus.

This goes with agenda 2021/2030 and pushing people out of their cars and onto mass transit.

Look for gas prices to increase under Biden's leftist green tyranny.

A kinder gentler kind of tyrant.

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... and aren't union pays in the civilian market then TWICE that? ...
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... juicy raise!!! ...
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