Re:Disney Blacklisted Replaced American Workers
by superuser2 on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @01:10AM
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Could be some (inhumane, but not outright evil) reasons for this.
- If you fire all your employees, then a month later have all the same people working for you as contractors, that can (and probably should) be a strong signal to regulators that you are abusing contractor status and ought to be paying for payroll taxes, healthcare, etc.
- Security. If you had just laid someone off, would you hand him root passwords for production infrastructure a week later? Once you've given someone a reason to hurt your company, probably best not to give them the keys back, at least until they've cooled down and found employment elsewhere (this could be the reason for the 1-year waiting period.)
- If you fire all your employees, then a month later have all the same people working for you as contractors, that can (and probably should) be a strong signal to regulators that you are abusing contractor status and ought to be paying for payroll taxes, healthcare, etc.
- Security. If you had just laid someone off, would you hand him root passwords for production infrastructure a week later? Once you've given someone a reason to hurt your company, probably best not to give them the keys back, at least until they've cooled down and found employment elsewhere (this could be the reason for the 1-year waiting period.)