LA City Council should drop the one-day work week – Latest News
Work is for the little people who pay taxes — not for the members of the Los Angeles City Council.
The “city slackers” have voted 12-0 to put a measure on the November poll that may alter LA’s constitution to permit for fewer council conferences — as few as one assembly per week.
You’ve obtained at hand it to them: A one-day work week is actually an innovation. Especially for elected officers incomes a quarter of a million {dollars} per yr.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez speaks at a May metropolis council assembly. Jonathan Alcorn for CA Post
Some nations, like Iceland, are experimenting with the four-day work week, shaving a day without work the conventional five-day week. But subsequent to the LA City Council, they’re all amateurs in the slacking division.
One might even make the grander declare that the LA City Council has efficiently inverted the Bible: In Genesis, it says that God labored for six days and rested on the seventh. The LA City Council needs to relaxation for six days and work on the seventh, as a substitute.
Of course, the distinction is that God really created one thing.
With all of the issues going through the metropolis — crumbling streets, homeless encampments, fire rebuilding and more — plus the pressing process of planning for the 2028 Olympics, one would suppose the members of the LA City Council might carve out a little more time than in the future a week.
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Oh, sure — they inform us that they’re doing more work outdoors of conferences than inside.
Meeting with constituents, going to neighborhood block events, issues like that.
Let’s ask them to fill out timesheets, then.
Working exhausting — or hardly working?
Perhaps the “constituent services” excuse would possibly fly for a few members of the council.
With all of the issues going through the metropolis — like homelessness — one would suppose councilmembers might carve out a little more time than in the future a week. Ringo Chiu
Hernandez and Katy Yaroslavsky (proper) are behind the coverage proposal. CA Post
But one take a look at MacArthur Park on an bizarre weekday is all the proof you need that the native councilmember just isn’t precisely on prime of issues.
Eunisses Hernandez is behind this coverage. So is Katy Yaroslavsky, who apparently complained that she was already working too exhausting, even at home.
Well, no one compelled you to run for metropolis council — and there are lots of people who would wish to compete for that job.
Does it matter that another cities have additionally decreased their council conferences? Only in case you imagine that fewer conferences imply much less mischief.
Voters are already getting shockingly poor service from the metropolis — simply ask victims of the Palisades Fire.
Like non-citizen voting, the metropolis council should withdraw this proposal.
And show up for work.
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