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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by module0000 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @10:40AM (#18354285)
I'm not trying to troll you, but it's a voluntary "denial of justice". No one compels or coerces people to seek employment there. They apply, go through several interviews, and then voluntarily agree to whatever it is they agree to before day #1 of work. As long as people are willing to work there under XYZ conditions, people will continue to work there under XYZ conditions.
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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by CydeWeys on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:31PM (#18356962)
By the same token, employees are allowed to advocate for change once they are working there.
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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by jimbokun on Thursday November 01, 2018 @10:42AM (#18354307)
People voluntarily entered into indentured servitude once upon a time, too.
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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by module0000 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @11:05AM (#18354559)
They didn't have options - every single Google employee(past and present) has options. They selected this one, voluntarily. Indentured servitude is not a valid analogy.
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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by madmax96 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @12:57PM (#18355995)
Most indentured servitude in the US was a voluntary agreement [1] although all such agreements are now illegal by the 13th amendment.

Also, there exist the concept of a so-called "unconscionable contract." I'm not saying this proposition is true, but I'm submitting for evaluation: is the act of submitting to private investigation processes that may be used as evidence against you in civil or criminal courts unconscionable?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude_in_the_...

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Re:Google staff walk out over women's treatment by jimbokun on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:28PM (#18357544)
They do not have any options where forced arbitration is not one of the conditions. Pretty much every corporation does this, so there are no realistic options for avoiding it.

There may be a very small number of cases where an employee successfully negotiated against this clause, but it probably requires the candidate to be a true outlier in terms of talent and skill set for the company to even consider it.

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