Senator Gleason, under his constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of Senate Bill No. 615 and moved that the statement he made during the discussion of the bill be printed as his reasons for voting “no.”
The motion prevailed.
Senator Gleason’s statement is as follows:
Reading this bill over, I see that, once again, the sponsor of the bill has put all the preponderance of responsibility on the employee. I am trying to find in this legislation where it says that the employers themselves, who may be culpable to these misdeeds, would have the same obligations placed on them. But it seems like, once again, that it is singling out the Michigan workers, the recipients themselves, of this compassion to contribute to their family funds. I think we should be fair across the board and put the same responsibilities on those who are involved in paying into the fund as those who are collecting the compensation themselves. I do not see anywhere in this legislation where we have tried to do that, have accomplished that, or even have a suggestion of doing that. I will be voting “no” on this because, once again, it is putting the responsibility on the Michigan workers.