Time off to vote question?

I don't know off the top of my head so I'm thinking out loud here

I would think if your state has early voting available the answer should be no.

We had two weeks of early voting available.

I think our policy is that an employee would be granted time off if their shift conflicted with voting hours.

It varies by state.

When Oregon went all vote-by-mail, we repealed the law that required employees to be granted time off to vote if they wanted.

Here are the laws for each state.

If anyone showed up for work with a "I voted" sticker, they got up to a free hour on their timecard. The majority of his co workers are local so I don't know if they'd give more time to dh or the other two that I know that have a 30-45 commute.

I just saw the map the other day! About half the states have required paid time off to go vote. Kansas requires employers to give up to 2 hours of paid time off to vote.

I've never heard of such a law in Michigan. I'm one of the lucky people because I have the entire day off to vote. I'm a UAW employee and we have had Election Day off with pay for as long as I can remember. Volunteering is encouraged so I am driving people who need rides to polls. That's why I'm peaing. My couple just went in to vote and I'm waiting to drive them back home.

I don't know about a time limit, but if you work on election day (regardless of early voting) your employer HAS to allow you time to leave in order to vote. I think the idea of not allowing time to leave when early voting exists is pretty bad. Some people want to be a part of the process in the thick of it ON election day and they shouldn't be forced into changing how they want to cast their vote just because early voting exists. In fact, I would be like that if I wasn't foolish enough to put my real phone number on my registration...I feel bullied into voting early because of the phone calls (and now texts, SMH) that I get trying to get me out to vote early.

Being that my husband works for a union (a highly politically active one) there is no way they'd stop him from exercising his right, in fact, they told anyone who wanted to leave today to vote if they hadn't voted early may do so whenever they want, just give a head's up before leaving. His office had a kick off event for early voting on October 22nd where all of the big state names and many NP candidates stopped in to talk and he's still voting today. He never votes on any other day and votes every election cycle. That's one of the upsides to working for a union, I guess. They even have very generous rules for jury duty. They get full pay without losing any PTO, but if they are there long enough to get paid to be there, since they are drawing their salary without any loss in leave time, they are required to turn over the pay to their employer.

I just dropped off my husband's ballot at the board of elections and literally 6 people in line and I was in and out in 5 minutes!

We got an email saying we would get paid for our time to go vote, but you had to clear the time you'd be gone with supervisors and be flexible.

In my state you are given two hours paid time to go vote but you have to clear it in advance. My company offers flexible hours so most people came in a little late today and will stay late.

I never realized that some states vote by mail or drop off only. Interesting! Here in Texas, we had 2 weeks of early voting including one weekend. My DH owns a business and there is no provision for paid time off for voting because they have ample time to vote early.

The polls in NY open at 6:30 am and close at 9:00 pm. The vast majority of people do not need to take time off work in order to vote.

Thank you.

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