Remember "Right To Work" states, there are still plenty around...one of the benefits to employers was they could pretty much 'pick and choose' who they wanted, without having to deal with those dratted unions...
I was too stupid/naive to see how perfectly I was set up before I got fired. At that job, you were automatically in the union after a year (except for supervisors, who are not in the union). When they asked me to stop being the supervisor but to stay, they treated me like I was a "new employee" and made me repeat my probationary period (though I'd been there 15 years). In my paperwork they noted that the "reason" was I was probationary and could be terminated for no reason.
Like former GE CEO Jack Welsh. He spent so much time, and personal pride, cutting 10% of employees every year. Bragging about it in media interviews, too. Meanwhile, his own decisions on business expansion tanked GE stock. But, hey, he got to lord over all those employees.
Paying wages to employees that are so low that they need subsided housing & healthcare, and food stamps is exploitation of taxpayers. That’s how many ‘job creators’ operate.
People fired from the accounting department where I worked were marched out of the building by security immediately after they were told their services were no longer required. No notice at all. The company didn't fuck around with people who had access to the money. I imagine most places are like that.
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Where would they find these workers willing to work under those conditions?
Remember "Right To Work" states, there are still plenty around...one of the benefits to employers was they could pretty much 'pick and choose' who they wanted, without having to deal with those dratted unions...
"...would prohibit employers from terminating employees without just cause" or a bona fide economic reason..."
Firing someone for stealing from the company would generally be considered "for just cause" and might even be "a bona fide economic reason".
Not to mention a crime.
from the swelling ranks of the unemployed?
Plenty of employers would accuse employees of helping themselves to the till if they wanted to get rid of them.
why would you even contemplate giving a thief severance?
[ . . . but they did sever thieves hands a while ago, and in saudi arabia, and ... now ]
I think we might have located your real problem.
I was too stupid/naive to see how perfectly I was set up before I got fired. At that job, you were automatically in the union after a year (except for supervisors, who are not in the union). When they asked me to stop being the supervisor but to stay, they treated me like I was a "new employee" and made me repeat my probationary period (though I'd been there 15 years). In my paperwork they noted that the "reason" was I was probationary and could be terminated for no reason.
To me this seems like something their new mayor would veto. He just doesn't seem like the kind of guy sensitive to the troubles of the common person.
Like former GE CEO Jack Welsh. He spent so much time, and personal pride, cutting 10% of employees every year. Bragging about it in media interviews, too. Meanwhile, his own decisions on business expansion tanked GE stock. But, hey, he got to lord over all those employees.
Being an employer means you don't need a reason to fire an employee.
I was terminated because "the title of Senior Editor has been eliminated." Is that "just cause" or "economic imperative?" I think not.
I got over it.
plead their case to arbitrators...
does that mean what i think it means?
Paying wages to employees that are so low that they need subsided housing & healthcare, and food stamps is exploitation of taxpayers. That’s how many ‘job creators’ operate.
People fired from the accounting department where I worked were marched out of the building by security immediately after they were told their services were no longer required. No notice at all. The company didn't fuck around with people who had access to the money. I imagine most places are like that.