Autumn Cyr
Mrs.Gallos
English III Honors
4.18.16
HB2: The Bad, The Worse, and The Not As Bad but Still Pretty Horrid
March 23, 2016, a bill that was passed in North Carolina that states itself as: “An act to provide for single-sex multiple occupancy bathroom and changing facilities in schools and public agencies and to create statewide consistency in regulations of employment and public accommodations.”(Public Facilities.) This bill was written with good intentions but the good intentions have dug up bad possibilities. With loop holes and dead ends, this bill limits and takes the rights of transgender individuals and impedes on the pay of workers. This bill affects us all. The big topic of conversation and controversy is the fact …show more content…
This makes it so if the state of North Carolina sets minimum wage at seven dollars an hour, a business or company can not choose to pay their workers over or under that seven dollar line. Although this may not seem like a big problem, it actually makes matters a lot more unjust. There will now be no rais- however small it is now- because wage can not be raised to be higher than $7.25 an hour. WNCN, a local news channel, interviewed a man Matthew Roberts recently. Roberts is working two minimum jobs just to keep food on the table and a roof over his family's head. “It doesn’t work out. You really can’t do it. No way that you can take care of your family off eight dollars an hour. It’s no way possible,” said Roberts.
HB2 bill also bans employees from filing a state cause of action if they think they were fired due to their ethnicity, age, or gender. Because of this, places of employment can now fire their employees at will for whatever reason. This is not only just to discriminate against transgender individuals, but now rides on the backs of every individual. Now, if an employer chooses, they can fire a person just for being a woman. There will be no questions asked, it will just go down that she was
Mrs.Gallos
English III Honors
4.18.16
HB2: The Bad, The Worse, and The Not As Bad but Still Pretty Horrid
March 23, 2016, a bill that was passed in North Carolina that states itself as: “An act to provide for single-sex multiple occupancy bathroom and changing facilities in schools and public agencies and to create statewide consistency in regulations of employment and public accommodations.”(Public Facilities.) This bill was written with good intentions but the good intentions have dug up bad possibilities. With loop holes and dead ends, this bill limits and takes the rights of transgender individuals and impedes on the pay of workers. This bill affects us all. The big topic of conversation and controversy is the fact …show more content…
This makes it so if the state of North Carolina sets minimum wage at seven dollars an hour, a business or company can not choose to pay their workers over or under that seven dollar line. Although this may not seem like a big problem, it actually makes matters a lot more unjust. There will now be no rais- however small it is now- because wage can not be raised to be higher than $7.25 an hour. WNCN, a local news channel, interviewed a man Matthew Roberts recently. Roberts is working two minimum jobs just to keep food on the table and a roof over his family's head. “It doesn’t work out. You really can’t do it. No way that you can take care of your family off eight dollars an hour. It’s no way possible,” said Roberts.
HB2 bill also bans employees from filing a state cause of action if they think they were fired due to their ethnicity, age, or gender. Because of this, places of employment can now fire their employees at will for whatever reason. This is not only just to discriminate against transgender individuals, but now rides on the backs of every individual. Now, if an employer chooses, they can fire a person just for being a woman. There will be no questions asked, it will just go down that she was