The penalty and compensation for laying off need to be increased until companies can no longer get away with mass firing like this. Record profit and then mass layoff, it makes no sense
You could just do what other parts of the world do and prohibit firing without cause, and introduce some rules for how businesses are allowed to lay off when the need to reduce headcount arises. Last-in/first-out could be one such rule - it’s what we have in Sweden.
Exactly. This isn’t an unsolved problem. It’s just that labour power and unions are weak in the US. Businesses get the laws tailored to them, and workers get screwed.
It’s fine and normal if a business miscalculates and has to lay people off. But, when that happens it should be obvious to everyone that it wasn’t the worker who screwed up, and the worker should have the option to get their job back if things turn around.
What made this video so disgusting wasn’t the fact she was losing her job. It’s that they tried to pretend that she was being fired because her performance wasn’t up to par when that was an obvious lie.
The penalty and compensation for laying off need to be increased until companies can no longer get away with mass firing like this. Record profit and then mass layoff, it makes no sense
You could just do what other parts of the world do and prohibit firing without cause, and introduce some rules for how businesses are allowed to lay off when the need to reduce headcount arises. Last-in/first-out could be one such rule - it’s what we have in Sweden.
Exactly. This isn’t an unsolved problem. It’s just that labour power and unions are weak in the US. Businesses get the laws tailored to them, and workers get screwed.
It’s fine and normal if a business miscalculates and has to lay people off. But, when that happens it should be obvious to everyone that it wasn’t the worker who screwed up, and the worker should have the option to get their job back if things turn around.
What made this video so disgusting wasn’t the fact she was losing her job. It’s that they tried to pretend that she was being fired because her performance wasn’t up to par when that was an obvious lie.