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You can do it, Home Depot doesn't want to pay
We've all seen the day laborers who congregate outside stores like Home Depot to wait for work. Some local governments have been requiring those businesses to provide facilities such as restrooms and security staff — and Home Depot has had enough. The home improvement giant has been lobbying for help from Washington, hoping to insert language into the looming federal immigration bill that would prohibit local governments from mandating that businesses accommodate the day laborers. Cities have argued that certain businesses bring certain land-use costs with them and it's not fair to taxpayers to have to pick up the tab.
Posted on June 27, 2007 4:28 AM PT | Permalink
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So you're telling me that if a bunch of people start loitering outside my house or office every day, I have to let them use my bathrooms and make sure they don't get hurt? What's wrong with this picture? Unless local governments can prove that having day laborers hang out at their facilities is part of Home Depot's business plan and it helps Home Depot's bottom line, municipalities should accept responsibility for the problems that their communities have and be prepared to suck up the costs for public bathrooms, added police protection and other services themselves.
Posted by Dave Oldham | June 27, 2007 7:08 AM PT
HD must have a desperate cash flow problem if management is going to such lengths to avoid providing toilets and drinking water to day laborers. Most businesses do as much for their employees. Historically, gasoline stations have provided America's public toilets and drinking water to motorists and for good reasons. Has HD management should considered the effect on customers if they don't offer such minimal facilities and day laborers just use the bushes...assuming HD provides bushes?
Posted by Tom Shillock | June 28, 2007 12:00 PM PT
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