Companies That Were Involved In Atrocities

[The Comrade]

you are not yet ready, young one.

[Dylan]

[PoS]

[Spider]

[exploited]

That makes sense until you realize that the US and Canada have basically the weakest labour and anti-discrimination laws in the Western world.

Then it stops making sense.

[Spider]

Weaker in the sense of benefits, absolutely. Things like vacation, paid maternity leave, etc. We suck with that, but thats a political thing as much as anything else, where there are ideological pressures against people getting paid when they aren't working. Which is an arguable point, really. (Disclaimer: No, I don't agree with it, but I get where its coming from.)

When it comes to discrimination....does the rest of the developed world protect against discrimination against gay and transgendered people? Or fat people? (obese people in particular are extremely badly treated by potential employers) Because we mostly don't. But the usual race, religion, gender, age, national origin, disability, bankruptcy, citizenship, etc., are specifically protected groups under law.

I'm just having flashbacks to when our little firm first incorporated and the enormous pile of employment legalese was being worked through. Its almost to the point where if you are the kind of place with any amount of serious turnover you need to retain legal services just to avoid being obliterated by coincidence. We haven't hired anyone but painters in about 4 years, so its been no problem for us. Other (much larger) places almost give the impression of having to have a full time legal aegis to defend against any perceived violations.

[exploited]

Yeah, and Russia has laws preventing assault but look what happens to the gays.

They are weaker because the enforcement mechanisms are drastically underfunded and are extremely limited in scope.

Lawsuits are not practical for the most affected by discrimination.

[Spider]

Well, I added to my post. But I'd have to ask why the disadvantaged are the ones falling victim to this everywhere if the weakness of it limited to this lovely continent. Its the same story in France. Same story in the UK. You can look it up. Not sure where this perception comes from. Over there you get the same economically depressed areas full of immigrants and minorities who face discrimination and barriers to upward mobility. This is not an American thing. Its a human thing.

[PoS]

[The Dharma Bum]