Re:Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short...
by vecplane on Sunday November 03, 2019 @04:55PM
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Competition goes both ways: employers that offer better benefits will attract more applicants, so they can higher higher quality employees.
Re:Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short...
by treetoppin on Sunday November 03, 2019 @05:04PM
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Which means that those employees not deemed higher quality will only get the minimum market rate of benefits.
Re:Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short...
by artificialLimbs on Sunday November 03, 2019 @08:30PM
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This is the essence of competition. Increasing demands on employers pushes people who want to/would be willing to work for less completely out of the market.
Re:Engineer Says Software Firm Cut Her Maternity Leave Short...
by perl4ever on Sunday November 03, 2019 @07:02PM
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People have to make decisions based on the most likely scenarios. Big companies can take advantage of the unlikely scenarios, for employees or for customers, because they average across large numbers of people. This is like a memory leak that defeats competition; it's not a flaw in the rationality of either party, but it is a real problem absent good regulation.
Because hypothetical employers who are actually benevolent are forced to compete with those who aren't, absent regulation? AKA a "race to the bottom".
When corporations send me stuff in writing every day saying that they can only do the minimum mandated by law in respect to any ethical matter, I have to wonder whose opinion it really represents to say that minimum standards aren't necessary.