So the traditional answer for these two groups (at least the ones in America) has always been "businesses have the right to fore any employee for any reason".
Now I get the sense that with the massive corporate abuse of power on free speech as well as this subject, opinions may be shifting.
But I am very interested in knowing what people think about this and why.
I actually agree with you pretty much completely, here, which is saying something…
Coming from an Australian perspective, what you have in Europe seems utterly admirable. We don’t have those protections here, though we are also not as, umm, extreme, as America (or indeed NZ)…
And I’ve been fired for a “no fault” situation (without going into detail - calling a supervisor out for bullying, who then proceeded to attempt to assault me, amusingly), so… To say I would’ve fucking loved those sorts of protections… Is putting it mildly.
Seeing some of the comments here (from Americans, presumably) genuinely alarms me, though I guess I shouldn’t be surprised…
I literally do not see the world in the same way as many people here do, which is… Let’s go with “interesting”.
Consevatives tend to forget that while people don't owe them anything on a personal level, the business is not their person.
Yup, I agree. The responses to this post, from some of our... "Regulars", are, uhh, enlightening, to say the least...
"Cultural differences" be damned, some of the responses here, specifically seemingly mostly from "Americans" are... Absolutely whack.
Does anyone really believe that some of this shit would ever fly? That a business which pays its workers $1 an hour would actually attract a LOCAL workforce, vis a vis cheap immigrant labour, which some people here also complain about, in the next paragraph..?
Come on, guys, that is not how economics works... facepalm
But yeah, anyway, you're right. It's just that some people here post the most bizarre, pseudo-intellectual shit, sometimes, as we can see from the post replies here...
Despite what people say, Mitt Romney, (former republican candidate for president and current senator aka, upper house of congress) said while campaigning. "Corporations are people."
Someone in the crowd told him "No, they're not."
Romney: "Yes they are, my friend, yes they are."
These kind of assholes honestly believe that their businesses are part of who they are on some metaphysical level instead of a just another part of the social contract.