Arguably, this is just another form of "legal" voter suppression.
An employer cannot legally fire a person for taking time off to vote, or to attend jury duty. That doesn't mean they don't, it just means they can't do so legally.
But if you are someone who depends on that job (such that you can't just go out and find another), losing that job because you voted is something you're going to weigh, and regardless of how you vote (though typically - at least historically, notwithstanding our last election - those on the lower-end of the economic scale vote for Democrats), you are more likely to want to keep your job to pay for rent and food, than to vote.
Furthermore, even if your principles matter more to you than your job, if you do get fired, you aren't likely to then go thru the process of taking your former employer to court for firing you (because that would mean more time and expense away from finding another job).
Heck - the employer may not even need to break any laws, just make implicit threats as to what will happen should an employee take time off without consent of the employer, while neglecting to tell the employee about their voting rights (and nobody reads those employee rights posters in the breakroom either). Even though such threats aren't arguably legal either, nobody is going to fight against them because again - that means loss of job and money to pay rent.
An employer cannot legally fire a person for taking time off to vote, or to attend jury duty. That doesn't mean they don't, it just means they can't do so legally.
But if you are someone who depends on that job (such that you can't just go out and find another), losing that job because you voted is something you're going to weigh, and regardless of how you vote (though typically - at least historically, notwithstanding our last election - those on the lower-end of the economic scale vote for Democrats), you are more likely to want to keep your job to pay for rent and food, than to vote.
Furthermore, even if your principles matter more to you than your job, if you do get fired, you aren't likely to then go thru the process of taking your former employer to court for firing you (because that would mean more time and expense away from finding another job).
Heck - the employer may not even need to break any laws, just make implicit threats as to what will happen should an employee take time off without consent of the employer, while neglecting to tell the employee about their voting rights (and nobody reads those employee rights posters in the breakroom either). Even though such threats aren't arguably legal either, nobody is going to fight against them because again - that means loss of job and money to pay rent.