Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately

• irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Right to Work” refers to the concept that companies don’t need a valid reason to fire someone without notice or severance benefits.

  It’s marketed as employees not needing a reason to quit or change jobs, but that’s not really true anyway considering most of the states allow binding non-compete agreements and your health insurance is tied to your employment and usually impossible to get at similar cost outside of the employer group market due to “stop loss” policies and other risk sharing plans.

  And there aren’t many laws anyway that prevent employees from leaving a job without a reason in non-binary"right to work" states, so the only real advantage is to companies.

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  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know what Right To Work is. I just thought literally almost all states had Right To Work legislation on the books

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    • irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A little over half have them. But several other states do have anti-union laws that are similar to that part of the right to work laws. So that’s not all that different across states anymore even though that’s what the laws were originally supposed to be for.

      The other smaller part of the laws that’s actually usually more impactful these days especially for bigger cities, is that local governments can’t make laws to limit firings and without unions to make agreements around what kind of things people can be fired for, it effectively allows businesses to fire people “with cause” (i.e. they can’t get unemployment) for things that wouldn’t be fireable offenses in many other places. This causes large cities to end up with having to support a lot more unemployed people when big companies use these kinds of tactics to fire a lot of people.

      For example, often “insubordination” doesn’t require that the thing you were told to do and didn’t do was in your employment contract. Like a salaried employee who’s contractually obligated to work a minimum of 35-40 hours refusing to work an 18hr day when they’ve already worked 18hr days all week is generally easier to fire someone for “insubordination” for than in some other states that treat employment contracts as actual contracts.

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