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by hwstar 11y ago
That coupled with American tax reporting requirements and FATCA, are designed to discourage Americans from living abroad and learning that the rest of the world's advanced democracies treat their citizens better.
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by hwstar 11y ago
No. Look what happened when Bush was president, and the democrats stalled the election of supreme court justices. The republicans control 53 senate seats, and can refuse to confirm any justice till they know the outcome of the presidential
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by hwstar 11y ago
Things are going to get very interesting with the pending court decisions coming at the end of June.
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by hwstar 11y ago
In some states that may be true. If anything labor law has been becoming more employee friendly in California. I must really be an outlier then. I was with the same company for 25+ years before being laid off. Because the job market for ele
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by hwstar 11y ago
Since the Great Recession, employers have gotten away with this because they could. That may be about to change...
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by hwstar 11y ago
Maybe people are just frustrated with what corporate America has to offer with regards to employment opportunities. At some point the burdens of being an employee in a corporate environment exceed the point where it is advantageous to run y
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Americans are stuck in a financial groundhog day(marketwatch.com)
8 points by hwstar 11y ago|0 comments
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Bill Aims to Restore Consumers’ Legal Rights(consumerist.com)
1 points by hwstar 11y ago|0 comments
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As noncompete agreement use expands, backlash grows(computerworld.com)
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by hwstar 11y ago
Someone has actually proposed a constitutional amendment to control rent-seeking: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2013/11/08/the-anti-rent-seeki... http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2013/11&#x2
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by hwstar 11y ago
It makes the corporate customers feel warm and fuzzy. All the resources used to support open source projects are redirected to the corporate users (i.e. the corporate users now have 100% of the attention of Github support)
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by hwstar 11y ago
I think the new management at Github is going to eventually alienate all of the users which have free open source accounts by introducing a monthly fee. They'll do this for 2 reasons. 1: To drive away the open source users so that the
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by hwstar 11y ago
As I allured to in the previous post, Trump may also not be nominated by the powers that be. Call me cynical, but the people nominated and presented to the voters, are preselected by the capitalist class.
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by hwstar 11y ago
You are correct, however there may not be a non-establishment democratic or republican candidate on the ballot for American voters once the nominations have taken place.
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by hwstar 11y ago
Just about every establishment candidate is going to be for more H1-B's. They have to; its the only way they can get the funding to get re-elected.
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by hwstar 11y ago
Thinning of the heard needed to happen. Now the more established companies (Alphabet and Facebook) will have their pick to buy some wounded unicorns at a steep discount.
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by hwstar 11y ago
The balance of power is tilted in the employer's favour, and therefore additional regulation is required to restore balance. The US employer has powers that businesses only dream of in other developed countries. It's time that US
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Why This H-1B Visa Thing Is Bulls**t(sputniknews.com)
20 points by hwstar 11y ago|8 comments
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by hwstar 11y ago
Landlord here. Rent control will be required in markets where there is a limited supply of low income housing, and the government is not providing enough low income housing to meet the demand. Society needs to have a way of housing low inco
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What Is “Economic Freedom,” and Who Is It For?(todaysworkplace.org)
4 points by hwstar 11y ago|2 comments
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Why performance reviews like Yahoo’s are out of favor(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by hwstar 11y ago|0 comments
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New bills target non-compete clauses in WA(geekwire.com)
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by hwstar 11y ago
They are bringing suit under the California WARN statues which really doesn't address the root of the issue: Employment at will. The US is the ONLY developed country which makes Employment at will public policy for non-union employees.
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by hwstar 11y ago
I've been doing something like this for years with Asterisk. When people call and I don't recognise their number, I ask them to enter a random 3 digit code to complete the call. This is highly effective at getting rid of telemarke
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California law could prohibit asking about prior salary information(siskiyoudaily.com)
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by hwstar 11y ago
Most companies these days force employees to sign binding arbitration clauses. When these are in place, the risk of being sued goes down dramatically. The general release of liability you mention is sometimes a one-way release. In that case
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by hwstar 11y ago
I agree 100% on your last sentence. As for making severance statutory in the US; that will be a uphill battle.
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by hwstar 11y ago
In my case I've seen executives do far, far worse. Shareholder apathy at its finest... How about having a string of continuous losses for over 6 years taking the valuation of a 250 million dollar company to practically worthless. Was m
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by hwstar 11y ago
It's really hard to tell without working there as employee. What most people do not realize, is that you need to be in a position to quit a job if you find it doesn't work for you. Too many people live paycheck to paycheck and are
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by hwstar 11y ago
The main reason why severance is offered is to keep people from portraying the company in a bad light. If anti-disparagement clauses were made illegal, fewer companies would offer severance.

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