• Travis Skaalgard@lemmy.ml
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    The following are legal where I live but should not be:

    1. Firing employees for any reason, or without a reason, without notice and at any time.
    2. Forcing employees to work any number of hours or days without breaks or days off
    3. Working employees 31 hours weekly so you don’t have to provide benefits to them
    4. Being a health insurance company
    5. Marrying as young as 13, with parental consent (gross)
    6. Holocaust denial
    7. Being a nazi

    EDIT: I noticed a downvote. Which of these things should be legal?

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      EDIT: I noticed a downvote.

      what’s funny to me is that the post has a downvote. a lot of posts on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml have one downvote. i’m imagining this cranky killjoy downvoting everything they see for no reason and it’s really funny to me

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      Forcing employees to work any number of hours

      Full stop. What is the point of all this automation if it doesn’t make our lives better? 40 hours 5 days a week is no way to live life.

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      how do you tell if someone is a nazi though. it’s just a label. what do you call a pro-ccp person then? I assure you the amount of people which will hail anything for bullshit semi-selfish reasons never goes weak.

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        When I say “nazi” I don’t mean “person I disagree with,” which ironically seems to be your defintion. Nazis belong to a very specific extreme right-wing ideology. Why are you here instead of making Winnie the Pooh memes on Reddit, though?

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      Didn’t downvote you, but 1. seemed odd. Are you saying that if somebody hires somebody, they cannot get rid of that person no matter how they behave and work? Perhaps I didn’t understand the phrasing correctly — perhaps the stress was on “without notice”.

      Others are more or less agreeable, although possibly hard to enforce.

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        Other developed countries handle this fine. If someone is shit, you put them on a performance improvement plan, a formal step that shows the company is trying everything they can to up your performance and that also provides notice to the employee that they aren’t doing good enough. After a series of meetings over a period of time if the employee isn’t improving and the company can show they tried to bring them up to scratch then the employee can be let go. If you need to drop staff due to being overstaffed there are processes for this as well.

        This is far different than the current US situation, where you can lose your job today because your boss doesn’t like your shoes.

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          Or if you’re a type of person they don’t like. “We didn’t fire him because he was black, we fired him for no reason at all, so it’s perfectly legal!”

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        Please read it again. They can FIRE you for any reason or without a reason, without notice. You can get fired here just because the boss doesn’t like you on a personal level, and it’s perfectly legal.

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        4 years ago

        i beg to differ, guns help to prevent dictatorships and being forcibly occupied by one.

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          Let me know when you use your gun to stop the current dictatorship

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            ahhh yes the dictatorship of a new dictartor every 4 years. in duckduckgo theres a feature to get a defination. type “define dictatorship” and see the difference between dictatorship and democracy.

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              the US isnt a democracy elections are decided by superPACs and 43 presidents have had european royal anscestry. its the exact same power structure, rich landowning fucks at the top. they literally dictate everything, as an oligarchy