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From the tone of the article it sounds like the government has made it too risky and expensive to hire unskilled employees(combination of lawsuits, expenses, hi

• lsc 16y ago
  the interesting bit here is that most of those things are really only risky for entities who have money; larger entities. You are going to have a pretty difficult time getting a lawyer to bring an employment lawsuit against, say, me- the problem is that I don't have enough money to make it worth the lawyer time. (I mean, yeah, if you really have it in for me, you could pay the lawyer yourself, or try to make it a criminal matter (usually a /much/ higher bar) and take me down... but few self-interested lawyers would take the case for a cut of the winnings, simply because the winnings would be so small.) and the problem of expensive mistakes is also mitigated; you can't make a mistake at a company that does worse than bankrupting the company and the owner personally; And, uh, I don't consider myself a low-skilled worker, but working for other people? I've made at least one mistake expensive enough to bankrupt my company and myself personally, had my company been liable. (the thing was, I didn't get fired... in fact, my review that year at that job was mildly positive and included a 4% raise. That was, apparently, a relatively minor mistake at that company? I mean, I felt pretty horrible about it, and took steps to prevent it from happening again, but there weren't the heavy consequences from above you'd expect from blowing many years of your salary.)