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Re:Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Thei... by inopinatus on Monday June 25, 2018 @03:53PM (#17395282)
In my country this procedure could be deemed a tribunal. Tribunals, like many legal objects, are duck typed and don't have to be created by legislation; any extrajudicial arbitration process that has the form of a tribunal may qualify.

Under such circumstances the rules of natural justice must still be observed: most significantly, a fair hearing with rights of reply, and an unbiased adjudicator.

Failure to adhere to those rules is the basis of an appeal to a real court.

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Re:Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Thei... by aerotwelve on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:06PM (#17396232)
If we had a similar setup in the United States, we'd have much fewer wrongful termination tort lawsuits. In the long term, it would be cheaper in almost every respect.

The problem with a system like Amazon's (or internal appeal processes other private companies use) is that they are often so blatantly biased towards management that their results would be legally meaningless in the context of a trial. It makes me wonder why they bother at all.

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