Re:Amazon is using algorithms with little human intervention...
by woodruffw on Monday June 28, 2021 @02:02PM
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> From a legal point of view at-will employment seems like the default when it comes to buying a service (ie. labor).
I think this gets to the heart of the difference: Americans tend to think of their employment as a continuous exchange of dollars for their labor, whereas most of the world takes the concept of an employment contract to heart.
That contract, in turn, contains both legal and contractual stipulations that prevent firing without cause: employers must give you so-and-so many weeks of notice before beginning the process of firing you, must pay you for so-and-so many months if you present an argument to a labor board, &c. There's nothing informal about it: it's the difference between continuous billing for a service and a fixed-length contract.
Here's a random PDF I found that explains some of the difference between US and French labor contracts[1].
I think this gets to the heart of the difference: Americans tend to think of their employment as a continuous exchange of dollars for their labor, whereas most of the world takes the concept of an employment contract to heart.
That contract, in turn, contains both legal and contractual stipulations that prevent firing without cause: employers must give you so-and-so many weeks of notice before beginning the process of firing you, must pay you for so-and-so many months if you present an argument to a labor board, &c. There's nothing informal about it: it's the difference between continuous billing for a service and a fixed-length contract.
Here's a random PDF I found that explains some of the difference between US and French labor contracts[1].
[1]: https://www.bakermckenzie.com/-/media/files/insight/publicat...