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Re:California is cracking down on the gig economy by barry-cotter on Saturday June 01, 2019 @05:00AM (#20068209)
German labour law and culture are utterly unlike the US. Under NLRB regulations the kind of long term, relatively collegial, give and take contract negotiation that is mundane in Germany is illegal. Volkswagen and other German car companies would like to have the same system in the US as in Germany. They don’t because it’s illegal.
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Re:California is cracking down on the gig economy by rightbyte on Saturday June 01, 2019 @05:30AM (#20068317)
Remember that the unions is in the VW board.

I don't think VW should want to want that even if they do.

Having 3 months mutual contract disbandment time favours the employer way more than the employee. It's huge being able to replace a person in an orderly manner.

Also I believe given big corps. inefficiencys and internal "politics" not being able to fire who you want at random but in predetermined order is also good for the corparations since you will automatically keep the employees with the most experience and not make stupid shortsighted savings or fireing people the bosses don't like.

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