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by hwstar 11y ago
This article is spot on. American businesses are not hanging by a thread, they are beating a horse drawing an overloaded cart, and don't care if the horse drops dead. They think they can just get another. In today's business envir
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Exactly. Adopting a world wide standard based on the European Working Time Directive would be a step in the right direction. They need to negotiate things like this in trade agreements. Labor standards need to be the similar worldwide and n
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Yes. The most business-friendly labor laws in the developed world. Employment-at-will is only practised in the US and a handful of third world countries.
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I suspect Alaska Airlines will not appeal this to SCOTUS, doing so is risky. It's just better to leave it localized to Washington State.
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There are those of us who worked under these A-player only regimes, and have had our fill of them. They'll have to recruit younger and/or more gullible or financially hungry candidates, who are willing to burn the candle at both e
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US companies have shown they can't police themselves on this matter. We should write our US Representatives and strongly suggest that the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 be reformed and be harmonized with the European Working Time Dir
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As I mentioned elsewhere, another way to resolve this is to reform the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and adopt rules similar to the EU Working Time Directive.
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by hwstar 11y ago
A lot of companies make you sign an agreement to arbitrate instead of going through the courts. That would mitigate the risk for them that they would get sued. Arbitrators don't use juries. Hopefully the California legislature passes A
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1. It gets amplified 10dB (power, not voltage) as it passes through each management level. 2. The amount of fear increases geometrically as you descend the management tree from the root. 3. The amount of bonus money for meeting profitabilit
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Boilerplate to use to write your senators and congresspersons: In light of the recent allegations of employee mistreatment at Amazon.com, maybe it is time to redefine what an exempt employee is under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. I
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You write your state assembly person, state senator, federal congressperson, and federal senators and state that you want labor law reform similar to the European Working Time Directive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wor
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Not insane at all. Those laws are rational, especially the Working Time Directive.
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Optimize for a balance of work-life balance and bank account balance. You need both.
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I followed this advice as well. Squirrelled away as much as possible, became financially independent. I'm 54 and I was laid off in November 2014 after 26 years at one company. I would like to go back work, but the engineering job marke
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Paywalled.
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No one is indispensable, including and up to the CEO. Even key employees can be replaced if properly managed. If they are a key employee, they bide their time, plan, and locate a suitable replacement candidate. Once the replacement is up to
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You may be killed. H2S is very toxic.
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It's more like we're too "wise" to work 80 hour weeks in perpetuity. Yes, we learned that moderation is keeps things in balance, and we are going to choose not to work in that kind of environment.
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The engineering job market is terrible in San Diego. It will probably get much worse once the Qualcomm layoffs hit. I suspect that it could be bad for a few years more. Most companies will not consider anyone unless they have a Master'
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If machines do take over, maybe we should have raised the minimum wage sooner. If robots can do the job better than humans, why did the restaurant owners drag their feet? Maybe they thought they could continue to exploit low wage workers, a
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by hwstar 11y ago
I think you have touched on the problem with At-will employment in general. Yes, at some callous employers you could face a "culture of fear". You won't be constantly under duress, but you could be miserable most of the time.
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Texas may be "Right to Work" but right to work has nothing to do with this. It has everything to do with the doctrine of "Employment-At-Will" of which 49 states follow. (Montana, I thank you for not following the employm
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Business and Professions Code 16600 http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&gr...
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In some states, sufficient consideration is continued employment, in other states, additional consideration must be offered. Here is a (rather old) state-by-state list: http://www.beckreedriden.com/wp-content/uploads&#x
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Say you choose not to sign and are terminated. I wonder if this would be treated by the state unemployment agency as "Termination with cause", or "Terminated without cause i.e. laid off"? If you are terminated with cause
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The solution is to not buy anything which is advertised, sold through cold-calling. We could learn something from developing countries and some developed countries. They have open markets where people go to buy stuff. Humans have been doing
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The IEEE and ACM are professional associations and for the most part steer clear from labor issues.
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At-will employment is more of an advantage for the employer than the employee. The employer is in a position of strength in and at-will arrangement. Yes, the employee can quit at any time, but the employee usually very dependent on getting
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Another way would be to have the people elect polititians to force the conversion of 'C' corporations to 'B' corporations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation .
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Everything needs to be balanced, and the pendulum is too far towards the capitalists at the moment. Counterpoint #1: Delighting customers is what makes a business successful. MBA's obsessed with extracting that last 5% of profit is wha

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