Re:The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe
by krageon on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:39AM
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If you've never seen any evidence of that, you've not looked very hard: This is what every supermarket does for their filler jobs, and to a lesser extent for their till and other store facing jobs as well. If you're over 18, you have to be very lucky to keep your job (or more realistically, to keep being given work) in such a situation.
Outside of supermarkets this sort of practice is also pretty entrenched in a lot of small-medium IT businesses: They have a sizeable portion of their workforce as trainees or whatever (they may be underpaid legally, so they almost always are) and don't hire them after their time is up (ever, as a rule). New trainees are then cycled into the slots that are now vacant.
Re:The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:03AM
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>without them, you'd make it uneconomic
Not uneconomic, but it would impact then in a way that might require reducing profits or flattening wage profiles.
That's not contrary to good management it's contrary to greed.
Re:The Unemployment Rate in Every Region of Europe
by k__ on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:07AM
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> it's uneconomic to take on staff who don't deliver enough value
This was the fear people had.
Somehow most people who were paid less that minimum wage delivered enough value.
Only a few companies needed to stop their service.
This does of course create a secondary risk of businesses laying off older staff in favour of young people and "apprentices", but I haven't seen any clear evidence that this is a widespread problem.