[IP] more on French protests

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Nicholas Solntseff <n.solntseff@cogeco.ca>
Date: April 9, 2006 4:50:57 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on French protests

A note from Canada --

There are two (extreme) options for the supervisor of an employee
(whatever the age)

Option 1 -- be able to fire employee X without giving any reasons
                  (or cause) for the firing

and

Option 2 -- having kept careful records of employee X's performance
                  (whether required by law or not) to explain to X the
                  cause of the firing and, possibly if the employer  
is fair,
                  tell X what need to be done by him to avoid this  
in future
                  at other employment.

What the French students are protesting is the firing without reason
now part of French law.

nicholas SOlntseff.....

At 06:18 AM 09/04/2006, you wrote:


> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Russ Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
> Date: April 9, 2006 2:41:19 AM EDT
> To: Chris Beck <cbeck@pacanukeha.net>
> Cc: dave@farber.net, Steven Hertzberg <stevenstevensteven@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] more on French protests
>
> Chris Beck writes:
> > Rumour has it David Farber, on or about 08.Apr.2006 08:11, whispered:
> > > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > The effect of the bill will be to make it easier for young  
> > > workers to
> > > be fired.  But consider the current state of affairs.  Right now
> > > it is
> >
> > Surely there is a middle ground between guaranteed employment and
> > "Fire at will!"?
>
> Did you misread what I wrote as "guaranteed employment"?  I wrote
> "guaranteed unemployment."
>
> The "middle ground" you hope exists is a situation where some young
> workers have jobs they can't lose, and the rest of them are
> unemployed.  Perversely, that might actually be an optimum solution.
> You see, nobody has any fear or uncertainty.  The employed young
> workers know they won't lose their job, and the unemployed young
> workers also know they won't lose their job, because .... they don't
> have one to lose.
>
> If you're in the situation that France is in, with lots of young
> workers going without jobs, and you think that's a bad thing, you
> should remove all barriers to employment.  An inability to fire a
> worker is a barrier to employing them in the first place.
>
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