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> You are simply saying to your employer (or potential employer) that I have this need (healthcare, mothers' room, 4 day workweek, whatever), and that were they
by flukus 7y ago
> You are simply saying to your employer (or potential employer) that I have this need (healthcare, mothers' room, 4 day workweek, whatever), and that were they willing to provide that you are going to work there.
You are simply saying to your employer (or potential employer) that I have this need (disabled toilets, minimum wage, safe working conditions, whatever), and that were they willing to provide that you are going to work there.
Should we end government disability regulations and let workers negotiate it for themselves? Is it really too much too ask governments to provide a base regulation for prayer rooms like they do disabled toilets? Minimum working conditions have always been set by government, especially for people who lack job mobility, which is why I consider a privileged few campaigning to do it at there tech corp to be selfish.
- pas 7y agoThe problem with minimums is that they not necessarily make sense. Eg. if no one would use the prayer room, why provide it? But if one employee wants to go to the nearby mosque at specific times maybe let them agree on that, even if that's not guaranteed. The lack of diversity of workplaces and work structures is a very big problem. (It results in dumb congestion problems, like rush hours, high tuition and student debt because of the super popular signals, peer pressure for uniformization and conforming, etc.) Unions would just provide another very big hammer instead of incentivizing meaningful dialogue and custom agreements. I'm not saying they would be worse than the status quo though.