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I wonder if a compromise between "French-style" and "American-style" would be the government taking over the layoff business. Need to cut headcount? Send the

by axus 3y ago

I wonder if a compromise between "French-style" and "American-style" would be the government taking over the layoff business. Need to cut headcount? Send the Department of Labor your payroll, and they'll tell you who to lay-off.

gruez 3y ago
I can't wait for the next layoff where my newly hired star performers get laid off because some bureaucrat thought tenure was more important than job performance or whether they were working on an important project or not.
- silenced_trope 3y ago
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  - banannaise 3y ago
    You posted that yourself. You're spamming the same comment over and over while trying to create the illusion that it's a popular opinion.
    - silenced_trope 3y ago
      I'm not at all "spamming" it, I posted it where it was relevant as an example of a problem I had with recent union activity? I don't understand the issue with that? It's just as relevant to this thread's conversation. I might be "double dipping" by using the same example? But I hardly consider a second post about the same topic to be spamming. So...sorry for not leaving to find a different example that I found relevant to the conversation? But it was pretty much the same conversation about the same issues people may have with unions.
mardifoufs 3y ago
French style would be to hire most of your employees as contractors to avoid stricter labor laws lol.
- axus 3y ago
  I have seen exactly what you are talking about. Some court cases in the US have said contractors with no autonomy get the same rights as employees, has anyone made that argument in France?
lost_tourist 3y ago
I guess that's a great thought experiment and would be interesting, but given the current stranglehold that corporate special interests have in washington I have my doubts about anything like that ever happening in our life times.

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I wonder if a compromise between "French-style" and "American-style" would be the government taking over the layoff business. Need to cut headcount? Send the

by axus 3y ago

gruez 3y ago
I can't wait for the next layoff where my newly hired star performers get laid off because some bureaucrat thought tenure was more important than job performance or whether they were working on an important project or not.
- silenced_trope 3y ago
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  - banannaise 3y ago
    You posted that yourself. You're spamming the same comment over and over while trying to create the illusion that it's a popular opinion.
    - silenced_trope 3y ago
      I'm not at all "spamming" it, I posted it where it was relevant as an example of a problem I had with recent union activity? I don't understand the issue with that? It's just as relevant to this thread's conversation. I might be "double dipping" by using the same example? But I hardly consider a second post about the same topic to be spamming. So...sorry for not leaving to find a different example that I found relevant to the conversation? But it was pretty much the same conversation about the same issues people may have with unions.
mardifoufs 3y ago
French style would be to hire most of your employees as contractors to avoid stricter labor laws lol.
- axus 3y ago
  I have seen exactly what you are talking about. Some court cases in the US have said contractors with no autonomy get the same rights as employees, has anyone made that argument in France?
lost_tourist 3y ago
I guess that's a great thought experiment and would be interesting, but given the current stranglehold that corporate special interests have in washington I have my doubts about anything like that ever happening in our life times.