{"id":15444,"date":"2017-06-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15444"},"modified":"2017-06-28T06:58:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T10:58:40","slug":"companies-are-giving-employees-time-off-to-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/companies-are-giving-employees-time-off-to-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies Are Giving Employees Time Off To Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062817_1056_CompaniesAr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Protesting used to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2017\/protesting-could-be-the-new-brunch\/\">the new brunch<\/a>. Now it&#8217;s a career perk wrote Claudia Cowan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies in America are increasingly giving employees days that they can take off to engage in &#8220;action&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>This time can be used to attend a rally, volunteer, or protest.<\/li>\n<li>Typically the only limit is that the time can&#8217;t be used to support a group that advocates violence.<\/li>\n<li>It can be risky \u2013 if employees support something controversial, the company itself could become a target of protesters, and sales could suffer.<\/li>\n<li>But, as one company noted, &#8220;Civic engagement is a foundation of\u2026democracy, and companies should encourage it&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/06\/27\/paying-workers-to-protest-controversial-trend-social-justice-benefits.html?cmpid=prn_msn\">Fox<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting used to be the new brunch. Now it&#8217;s a career perk wrote Claudia Cowan: Companies in America are increasingly giving employees days that they can take off to engage in &#8220;action&#8221;. This time can be used to attend a rally, volunteer, or protest. Typically the only limit is that the time can&#8217;t be used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062817_1056_CompaniesAr1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15447,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15444\/revisions\/15447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}