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
March of the Billionaires
MARCH OF THE BILLIONAIRES by the band Cracker is ten years old but even truer today.
Great video, with footage from weird old Soviet Russia propaganda cartoon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTl00248Z48
~hugs, Veronica
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And for them who don't want to click the link
(even tho' it's just youtube) here's the lyrics:
Get into line
Stop talking back
Meet the new boss
We'll take what you got
We'll sell it all back to you
Get into line
Your poverty brings us all progress
Stop talking back
We're richer and smarter than you
Give up your rights
Your most private thoughts
Don't make us label you some kind of Luddites
It's better for us
Therefore it's better for you
Isn't this the same old shit they tell you
as they march us to the rice fields?
Isn't this the same old shit
A bright and better future
for the robber barons?
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na
Life's good for the billionaires
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na
Three cheers for the billionaires
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na
Damn it feels good to be a billionaire
Na na na na, na na na na, na na na
Don't you wish you were a billionaire?
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
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