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It’s an interesting story, though also tragic and frightening. I probably would’ve lead with reason five. It seems to me that abusing holes, in employee safety
by sidstling 8y ago
It’s an interesting story, though also tragic and frightening. I probably would’ve lead with reason five. It seems to me that abusing holes, in employee safety laws for disabled people, is one of the worse evils they commit.
I wonder how much of this goes around. Recently it was revealed that a local restaurant in Aarhus, Denmark, that put disabled and mentally ill to work on a type of welfare program where the municipality pays part of the wage for people who can’t work full hours, was also abusing their employees for profit. And that just another story in a long line of these.
- kermittd 8y agoO very interesting. At the particular store I worked there was a teenage “volunteer” working due to legally mandated community service.
- anfilt 8y agoWell generally one can choose where to put their community service hours. I knew someone when growing up who had to do community service and choose to do so at the local animal shelter. Although, I have heard of judges also specifying where. So they could have "voluntarily" chose good will instead of some where else. However, community service is not voluntarily done, and t must be completed. However, definitely not what one commonly thinks about word "volunteer".
- pythonslayer 8y agoMost people living under capitalism, especially workers, have an open-ended incentive to downplay their public concerns over employment abuse. Their future employment opportunities likely depend on it. I don’t know if that’s the case in the blog post, of course, but I wouldn’t be surprised. Tangentially, I wonder if this is the most harmful side effect of privacy concerns.