The problem doesn’t go away, they just stop hearing about it. I hope lmg cares about their workplace culture, (it’s even good business sense) so they would want to fix the issues instead of silencing it.
Comment on Statement from Linus Tech Tips about Madison's accusations
bstix@feddit.dk 1 year agoYes HR is necessary, but they also need representatives for the employees, who can speak to HR and management freely on behalf of employees, so that any individual doesn’t have to address these kinds of problems personally.
The easiest solution for management is always to fire the one reporting problems, because then the problem goes away. That situation has to be dismantled before they can have an honest discussion of these sort of things. That can only be done by an employee representative.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
So a union?
bstix@feddit.dk 1 year ago
Yes it could be, but not necessarily. Depends on the country and what their laws are. Many countries have regulations of hazardous working environments (including psychological environment) which mandates companies having more than a few employees to facilitate employee representation, even if the company does not have a collective agreement. It’s a legal obligation rather than a voluntary union.
Other countries aren’t that progressive and only address physical working environments in the law, leaving anything else to the unions.
There’s usually some crossover between what the union and safety representatives do.
It would be nice if stuff like this was taught in schools, because there are a lot of misconceptions about it.