Comments on: Republican Fast Food Pusher Andrew The Putz Puzder Not In Labor https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/republican-fast-food-pusher-andrew-the-putz-puzder-not-in-labor/ Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/republican-fast-food-pusher-andrew-the-putz-puzder-not-in-labor/#comment-457766 Thu, 16 Feb 2017 00:09:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23710#comment-457766 “Puzder is out because he hired an illegal immigrant. ”

Hardly a major issue – republicans love to complain about “those people” while hiring them. He did have problems paying here, not paying taxes, and being misleading about it.

He was also advertised as someone who had a history of fighting for workers, but in reality eliminated jobs at CKE and put his primary focus on overseas expansion (not necessarily bad, but not the same as working for jobs here, as advertised).

There have been wage and hour violations at over 60% of the restaurants operated by his company. There are still numerous lawsuits over employees being cheated of overtime, denied breaks that are mandated by law, and requiring workers to stay in the building after they clock out of their shift so that can do more work – off the clock.

He has claimed that he is not responsible for the types of violations at the restaurants of franchisees and action was taken when violations were discovered – but no evidence of those actions has been discovered in the lawsuits.

In addition to his personal hypocrisy over undocumented workers, a 2014 audit of Carl Jr and Hardee’s restaurants in the southwest and midwest found one in three of their employees were undocumented – 1200 in total were fired.

He has said his company’s restaurant chain, Hardees, hires the “worst of the worst” — “it’s kind of the bottom of the pool”. (From Bloomberg: his first memo to Hardee’s managers said “No more people behind the counter unless they have all their teeth.”)

Yeah, this isn’t just about him being a dishonest hypocrite in his personal behavior – he is especially scummy as a person. That’s probably his appeal to the modern right: as I said earlier, the amazing thing is that the scum we have in the White House found him so toxic they decided they couldn’t use him.

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/republican-fast-food-pusher-andrew-the-putz-puzder-not-in-labor/#comment-457765 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 23:49:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23710#comment-457765 Puzder is out because he hired an illegal immigrant. OMB director might survive that, but not for Labor(Linda Sanchez), Attorney General(Zoe Baird), or DHS(under W).

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2017/02/15/republican-fast-food-pusher-andrew-the-putz-puzder-not-in-labor/#comment-457764 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:40:40 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=23710#comment-457764 “But an attack by Oprah, armed with withering truth…”

That’s a rare, but welcome, move for her.

It is surprising to find that it is possible for a person to be so lacking in ethics and integrity that Trump and his people realize they are better off without him than with him. (It isn’t surprising that, given someone that bad exists, it is Puzder.)

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