Re:Stop the Coronavirus Corporate Coup
by tomerico on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:25PM
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The UK proposal is a surprisingly effective way to handle this. By paying paying workers a percentage of their wage directly, you are protecting both the workers, and the companies that can now cut their costs by moving a large portion of their workforce to “unpaid” leave guilt free. This method is essentially designed to minimize damage and allow for a fast rebound once the restrictions are removed.
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This seems much more beneficial for at least small biz owners. They don’t want to lay off staff because they probably can’t get all the same people back after this is over, so have to train up all new employees at once. But currently for employees to get unemployment, they must be fired first
In some countries this approach is part of existing work laws.