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Re:Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Thei... by krapp on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @06:40AM (#17399387)
>because in the framework of the law, we are not to deprive another person of rights or possessions without demonstrating they have done wrong.

Employment is not a right, and a job not the possession of the employee (it's rather the other way around,) and employers in the US can in most cases terminate an employee without demonstrating any cause at all. This isn't a "real" court and jury system, so the rules of that framework don't actually matter here.

The purpose of this is not to find fact and arbitrate fairly, it's to discourage employees from engaging in lawsuits against Amazon.

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Re:Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Thei... by DanBC on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @06:51AM (#17399441)
> Employment is not a right,

Article 23.

(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

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Re:Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Thei... by krapp on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @07:10AM (#17399519)
Fair enough. Employment at any specific business is not a right.
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Re:Amazon Workers Facing Firing Can Appeal to a Jury of Thei... by solidsnack9000 on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @10:31PM (#17413628)
One could use the more generic term "stuff" instead, in this case, because the key thing is, someone wants to deprive someone of something, using a judicial process. (If they didn't want to use a judicial process, it would be different, but Amazon is choosing to use one here.)
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