Here is a very interesting comparison between Europe and USA regarding employee protection, and whether big corporations are engaging in modern day slavery and/or worker exploitation. I have previously seen some individual reporting regarding these corporations, and how they are running afoul of European legislation.
Of the two big corporations mentioned (which each are bigger than all except the 16 biggest countries GDP in the world), one has already exited the European market because they are unwilling to stop the exploitation and slavery of their workers, while the other has received several very substantial fines though vehemently denies any wrong-doing. Though I will refrain from naming them, they are well known here in this community for holding the intellectual property of their clients hostage.
Check out the video Why US Workplace Surveillance is Banned in Europe by Type Ashton, who is presenting well researched comparisons between the USA and Germany/Europe every Sunday.
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Land of the free?
I am always staggered that a country that has the words “Land of the free and the home of the brave” allows their companies to treat people the way they do. I could probably cite numerous examples of terrible practice by American employers, but two that spring to mind are: Just giving employees Two weeks’ annual leave. Good luck getting away with that in Europe! And: “At-Will”. I have only recently learned that America has “At-Will” States where employers can fire employees without warning and without any good reason. How on earth do Americans allow this to happen?
Who?
If there is a public record of the company exiting Europe then why not link to that record?
Anyway, a modern form of slavery in business is the following:-
1) Interns are not being paid yet they are expected to work 80+ hours a week. Then the company makes it almost impossible to leave for a competitor via NDA's.
2) This applies to Indian IT companies operating in the West. I used to run a team and three of the members worked for an indian outsourcer like TATA (in my case, it wasn't TATA). Those workers had to pay a bond to their employer to ensure that they didn't jump ship during their contract. It was often difficult for those workers to get that bond returned at the end of the contract. Once I'd pointed that out to HR as it being illegal here, the company stopped working for us. This is indentured slavery.
Samantha