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Re:Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for hara... by EdwardDiego on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @10:06PM (#20408534)
You said that they signed up to a shareholder value driven organisations, so should accept layoffs as part of such a company, but they didn't join a private company, they joined a public service that was later privatised.
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Re:Former top executives of France Télécom on trial for hara... by malandrew on Friday July 12, 2019 @07:51PM (#20425556)
Public vs private shouldn't matter here. Public institutions exist to provide services to taxpayers. Taxpayer money should be put to the highest and best use. If the job of some government employee is no longer the highest and best use of that taxpayer money, they should be let go. Taxpayers have no obligation to pay people indefinitely for labor that they no longer need or value.

taxpayers ~= shareholders

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