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It's very rare for new rules to apply retroactively — why is this surprising? Google isn't a legislator but its policies do affect many people. For example, in
by esquivalience 8y ago
It's very rare for new rules to apply retroactively — why is this surprising?
Google isn't a legislator but its policies do affect many people. For example, in the context of laws, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law
"In the United States, Congress is prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 3 of Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constitution. The states are prohibited from passing ex post facto laws by clause 1 of Article I, Section 10. [...] Thomas Jefferson described them as "equally unjust in civil as in criminal cases"."
(To be fair, the article cites exceptions)
- starbeast 8y ago>It's very rare for new rules to apply retroactively — why is this surprising? Surely you would only be applying rules retroactively if you were engaged in reopening finished arbitration? Cancelling a current process that is still in open session, on the basis that you have already publicly agreed that employees being forced into that process is unfair, is not being retrospective.