Even as he cast ballots by mail himself and launched messaging campaigns encouraging his supporters to do the same, Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to eliminate mail-in voting altogether, baselessly casting doubt on the legitimacy of mail-in votes.
Now he appears to be calling for the end of all forms of early voting.
After publicly demanding the prosecution of his political enemies, Trump encouraged the Department of Justice to investigate the outcome of the 2020 presidential election with “gusto” — and signaled that the “biggest SCANDAL in American history” will “happen again” unless the government eliminates early voting.
In Canada, your employer must give you 5 hours to go vote on election day. So in most cases, you either start work after 12pm or finish before 4pm. They could also give you 5 hours mid-day, but that’s just tedious and not worth the trouble in most cases.
https://www.adp.com/spark/articles/2024/10/time-off-to-vote-8-facts-employers-should-know.aspx
Our patchwork of state laws makes it a clusterfuck. Also, even if employees should have protected time, it doesn’t prevent a shitty boss from using it as a pretext to fire you for something else that isn’t protected.
Nobody does this, in my experience.
I’ve never had an employer that didn’t, and I don’t know anyone who has.