Comment on How does employing a rapist not constitute an unsafe work environment for female employees?

kirklennon@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• metaStatic@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  people don't think it be like it is but it do.

  anti-discrimination laws just mean employers can't give the real reason so they've gotten really good at making up legally acceptable reasons.

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  • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And in “right to work” states, not even that much.

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    • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re thinking of at-will employment states. Right to work is about joining unions and making that difficult.

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah right. Thank you for pointing that out.

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    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Right to work” means employees can work in a union shop and receive the benefits of such without having to join the union or pay dues. It’s a set of laws that have successfully destroyed unions.

      You’re thinking of “at will” employment laws, which means an employer can fire an employee for any reason or for no reason, but not for an illegal reason (which varies depending on state but includes the right to organize and rights against discrimination and retaliation).

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, of course. Thank you for pointing that out.

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    • BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You mean “at-will” states and that functionally means any state but Montana.

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Indeed.

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• BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Many US based companies also do pre-employment background checks. So either OP works for a company that doesn’t or they work for a “second chance” company that is OK with violent backgrounds. Either way the company is fine with his background and is very unlikely to fire him for something they likely knew about at hire.

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• Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the US you can be fired for any reason except for protected reasons (gender, sexuality, race, religion). Being a convicted sex offender is not a protected class.

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• Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  *in a right to work stste

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  • Xariphon@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In an at-will state, which I think is most or all of them.

    Right-to-work is different; it means you can't be required to join a union in order to take a job.

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  • tjhart85@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In a right to work stste

    Some cities and counties have additional protections, but at the state level, the only one that's not at-will is Montana and the entire population of that state would fit in a single decently sized city. So, I think that's a distinction that wasn't really necessary, but you do you.

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