Mr. John Douglas:

Frankly, this has not nothing to do with employers' flexibility. I have been in retail now for 37 years. The least offenders are small employers in the retail sector. The big players are the ones with the fancy scheduling machines and computers that have the employees up and down. They know when a customer is going to come in any given week. They will have the employee in for a half an hour. When that customer goes, they tell the employee to come back in for another half an hour next week. These are mass employers and profitable companies that have passed on their responsibility to provide decent jobs and that pay dividends to their massive shareholders wherever they are. That is the reality of it. Let us call a spade a spade.