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DICK’S Sporting Goods Will Not Say if It Will Offer $4K to Employees Who Refuse to Terminate Their Pregnancies
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/06/25/dicks-sporting-goods-will-not-say-if-it-will-offer-4k-employees-refuse-to-terminate-pregnancies/10
Jun 25 '22 edited Jun 25 '22
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u/milkeeway Jun 25 '22
Does Dicks employee a biologist at each location to assist in determining what a woman is? Lol
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u/Traditional-Part-761 Jun 25 '22
So I looked up the policies and pay rates for Dick’s. The starting wage is around $9 for entry level work. For maternity leave they offer 9 weeks paid and 4 weeks unpaid. The $4K would be a taxable income so no need to figure that deep into the equation. So if you’re in an entry level job, had a few pay raises and making $11/hr and working 40 hours a week, 9 weeks equals $3,960 before taxes. Now, an mother can expect to redeem this benefit once a year reasonably. How many times could someone expect a company to pay for abortion services? Sure, virtue signal about it now but how many times you gonna allow an employee to do this? I can see many company’s rolling back this policy or severely limiting its use in the immediate future. Prepare for the reeeeeeeeeeeesponse from leftists then.
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u/Sure_Guidance3128 Jun 25 '22
Great perspective. It may be weird, but I kind of want to see this play out just to see how they dance their way out of it. Remember the old days when companies would just keep their mouths shut? Those were the times!
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u/Traditional-Part-761 Jun 25 '22
The ESG implemented by investor groups like BlackRock and Vanguard make it impossible to stay neutral. Big box stores are really at these 2 investment management companies beck and call. Its corporate cronyism on a scale that really needs intervention.
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u/foot_slogger Strict Constructionalist Jun 25 '22
I know if I was a dicks employee, I would have about 1 abortion a week, and I am a 50+ year old man. Who are they to say you can't have one?
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u/DarkLordKefka Jun 25 '22
It has to be fair for everyone. And the weirdos tell us men can get pregnant now somehow, so I say roll with it.
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u/Aftermathemetician Jun 25 '22
Seems a bit too frequent for plausibility, every other month would be fine.
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u/justsayfaux Jun 26 '22
You realize you can only get pregnant once a month though, right?
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u/DarkRitualBear Jun 26 '22
I can identify as pregnant as often as I want
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u/justsayfaux Jun 26 '22
You sure can, but that won't get you paid maternity leave, or a reimbursement for a fake abortion
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u/Aftermathemetician Jun 25 '22
Can an employee take the abortion money for an out of state vacation and then also collect on maternity leave?
Anything for guys here or are they only creating a womens benefit?
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u/powpowbang Conservative Jun 26 '22
I met a girl one time who used the morning after pill as her go to. It didn't go anywhere for obvious reasons and that was the last I ever spoke to her. She was super proud to tell me also.
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u/AbominableDerp Jun 25 '22
Maybe if Dicks starts selling guns and ammo again I’ll give a shit.
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Jun 25 '22
Went in one the other day, felt more like a fashion store than anything else. Gone are the days of true sporting goods and outdoors stores!
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u/thatrightwinger WASP Conservative Jun 26 '22
If they're going to appeal to the woke audience, they're going to need to cater to the people who demand "fat acceptance." Telling those people to exercise is "oppression."
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u/stephenlc95 Jun 26 '22
Yeah, last time I was in one was about 3 years ago at the Field & Stream / Dicks just North of Atlanta getting some camping gear. Now that they don't sell guns and ammo and their prices on camping stuff is so expensive, pretty much no reason to ever go there.
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u/Malfrus Conservative Jun 26 '22
Last time for me was 2020 after the lockdowns ended because i needed to take a shit and the moronic leftists running the mall it is located decided to close all the bathrooms except the one in the food court for "Safety Reasons" and the Men's bathroom was closed to be cleaned.
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u/alnelon Conservative Jun 25 '22
Can’t wait to see the response when swamp donkeys try to access this “benefit” 5-7 times a year.
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u/glimmeringsea Sowell and Scruton Jun 26 '22
Why don't they give their employees $4K toward an HSA or maternity leave, I wonder?
I'm so glad I decided to stop shopping there years ago when they started smugly and idiotically flexing about guns.
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u/2Foxy4You Jun 26 '22
Maternity leave is literally money to stay home with your baby. 9 weeks, 40 hours at $11 an hour is $3960…. So yea it sounds like they take care of them.
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u/rigndkvn Jun 25 '22
I love when corporations put out statements like this because I can immediately stop spending my money there!
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u/ergoegthatis Jun 25 '22
Good point, this is discrimination. A pregnant woman deserves the 4K to take care of her child more than the pregnant woman who wants money to kill it.
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u/theplainsaregrains Jun 25 '22
$4000. Thats how much they calculated the cost for a dead baby over a mother having one. What a sick and perverse incentive.
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u/BillionCub Conservative Jun 25 '22
For the company, it's an investment to encourage your employees to not have kids. I'm sure it costs them more money and productivity to have employees with families. And of course, it scores political points at the same time.
Disgusting.
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u/02201970a Jun 25 '22
Huh? Didn't dicks say they will help with expenses for out of area abortions?
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u/BillionCub Conservative Jun 25 '22
I think the question posed to them was, are you also providing incentives to pregnant employees who plan on having their baby? Or do you only give bonuses to people who terminate their pregnancies?
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u/ladynoir19 Jun 26 '22
um it's not a bonus. they will cover travel expenses to up to 4000 dollars for employees who live in a state where abortion is illegal to go to a place where it isn't. any extra money will go right back to Dick's.
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u/BillionCub Conservative Jun 26 '22
Yes, they are paying out additional benefits to employees to get an abortion. The question is, you're offering additional cash to employees to cover abortion expenses, what sort of additional benefits are you offering to your employees who choose to have children?
It's a rhetorical question, because she answer is likely "nothing." It's an interesting incentive structure.
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u/SparkleFeather Jun 26 '22
My insurance plan offers $500 a year for acupuncture. If I don’t access acupuncture, I don’t get to access this benefit. Same with physio, counselling, etc. How is this any different?
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u/BillionCub Conservative Jun 26 '22
My understanding is that this is more like travel reimbursement rather than a covered service under the company's insurance plan. You turn in your travel receipts and they'll cut you a check. Kind of like traveling for a work assignment.
Your company would likely tell you to get lost if you asked for a cash reimbursement to travel to your preferred acupuncture facility.
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u/SparkleFeather Jun 26 '22
Travel is definitely covered if the specialist isn’t local: mileage and food allowance, hotel if it’s X distance away (not sure what that is). A coworker went through this when they needed to travel to get specialized care for their child with cancer. Again, I’m not seeing much difference…
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u/Wookie-Cookie-9 Jun 26 '22
Wouldn't maternity leave be qualified as the benefit being offered? It's a monetary incentive to have a child, and its only available to women who decide to keep the baby.
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u/BillionCub Conservative Jun 26 '22
Well, possibly. I'd be interested to see how Dick's administers maternity leave. Some companies will offer the time off but only pay for it when there is PTO/sick time available.
I'd be a little surprised if a company who admittedly pays many of its' employees so little, that they often can't afford to travel outside their own state when necessary, has a great maternity leave program.
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u/ladynoir19 Jun 27 '22
Well a benefit that DICK's offers to employees that do have a child is 6 to 8 weeks of paid maternity leave, which is offered exclusively to new parents.
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u/BillionCub Conservative Jun 27 '22
Is that utilizing the employee's banked PTO, sick, etc., time or is the company 100% covering maternity leave?
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u/swervin87 Financial Conservative Jun 26 '22
Can anyone claim that 4,000? Can a woman who plans on keeping the baby still get the 4,000 and say she changed her mind? My body, my choice, right? What if her choice was to have the baby?
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u/Expensive-Attempt-19 Combat Veteran Jun 25 '22
And again, the courts put the power back into the individual state on abortion issues. Dicks is just exploiting the issue into something it is not. Same as they have in many other political issues. But that's cool. It will only cost them more money and soon another company will float into the sea of debt.
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u/maizenbrew3 Jun 25 '22
Can't wait for the trans world to start calling for this. Trans man gets pregnant and asks for this... can't say no if you can't define who can get pregnant.
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u/cchris_39 Independent Conservative Jun 25 '22
They haven’t made any money off me in years and won’t now either.
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u/MerlynTrump Jun 26 '22
what happens if you tell them your having an abortion, travel, then tell them you decided to keep the baby, after they paid for the travel?
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u/awcheez Jun 26 '22
Their CEO explicitly said on her Linkedin page the company would be paying for their employees to travel to another state for abortions.
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u/MadRabbit86 Jun 26 '22
Well no. They’re doing this because it’s better for them than maternity leave.
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u/DiddlyBoBiddly Conservative Jun 26 '22
I stopped going there and I stopped selling ammunition and weapons. If they want to be all woke, go for it. Evolution and finance are very similar. Organisms that are not successful disappear. See ya', Dick.
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u/Redcole Jun 25 '22
….because there are already avenues for them to do that…?
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u/Expensive-Attempt-19 Combat Veteran Jun 25 '22
They have the choice to do either, and what are they in support of?
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u/Redcole Jun 25 '22
No. In many states there are not two choices for women any longer. Dick’s Sporting Goods is saying that they’re opening the opportunity for women to have two choices in certain states.
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u/Expensive-Attempt-19 Combat Veteran Jun 25 '22
By saying they won't admit supporting those who choose to give birth? Lol! Interesting!
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u/Redcole Jun 25 '22
They didn’t say they wouldn’t admit it. They’re just not letting people distract from the actual issue at hand. Because it’s not the fucking point and it’s a red herring.
No one is taking away the opportunity for women to choose birth
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u/GracenandGracen Jun 25 '22
lol imagine telling your boss at Dick's that you need to get an abortion