Companies start charging for employee training
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Bullshit. We have a labor shortage in the US and employer bargaining power is at an all-time low. Nobody is forcing you to take any job. No one is putting a gun to your head.
As the welfare state continues to grow, employer power will continue to diminish because people will be fine with leeching off of welfare instead of working.
Lemme guess: time for mass immigration?
"We need more visas, or else we might have to hire a white guy"
Is that not why companies are pulling shady shit like this?
They're completely out of legitimate options to retain staff - they can't afford to pay competitive wages, they've too much work on to be flexible. So, the remaining option - start punishing your staff if they leave.
That doesn't work, because you'd need to agree to a training reimbursement if you break your contract early when you sign your employment contract on hiring.
So if the company isn't willing to pay you "competitive wages", why would you agree? You wouldn't.
The real reason this is happening is that desirable employers are refusing to hire people without experience, so entry levels are forced to go to "undesirable" employers to get training, then promptly dump them and get a "better" job the minute they have enough experience. The employers who are getting used and exploited need to try to stop this exploitation and reduce turnover, so they very fairly say "your employment contract is X months, and we will eat the cost to train you if you complete your contract, but if you leave early, you need to partially reimburse us based on how long you stayed". It's not about "punishment", it's about the employer not being taken advantage of.
Don't give me this crap. As you well know, there are legal limits to what contracts can impose on parties. I cannot sell myself into slavery to you, even if you didn't put a gun to my head.
How exactly does 'welfare' relate to 'employers'.
Welfare is an alternative to employment. So the better welfare is, the more people will decide to go on welfare rather than work.
Hell, Trump and Biden paid me I think $1,250 per WEEK during COVID just because the courts closed even though I could still work. Literally just showered me and everyone else in California at that level. THAT'S $65,000 PER YEAR, MORE THAN THE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME. For doing NOTHING except signing up on some govt website for free shit.
A lot of people took that money and stopped working for a prolonged period, which caused both inflation and a recession.