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It seems that Western society is divided over the question as to whether or not employers have some broader duty of care to their employees beyond the economic
by spir 3y ago
It seems that Western society is divided over the question as to whether or not employers have some broader duty of care to their employees beyond the economic arrangement of employment.
If the CEO of a factory had to sell half their maintenance-hungry machines to balance the budget, do they owe it to the sold or retained machines to take a pay cut so they "share in the harm of the layoffs"?
The factory machine example is silly because they are machines and offensive because many people would agree that employees are very much not machines.
- klyrs 3y ago> If the CEO of a factory had to sell half their maintenance-hungry machines to balance the budget... ... then they're clearly in dire straits and the company should be looking at any cut they could make including the CEO's compensation. Payment in stock devalues the stock; payment in cash decreases the runway.
- rideontime 3y agoI agree, that is a very silly example.
- spir 3y agoI was hoping somebody would pick up what I was trying to put down, which is that there's a fuzzy spectrum between silly examples and a self-evident duty of care between employers and employees.