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If Mitt Romney is right and corporations are in fact people my friend, then they are definitely the kind you don’t want showing up at your parties.
The highest court in Texas decided that a company can legally lie to its employees if the bosses think the employees might bolt if they knew they were about to get screwed. Allow me to explain as you shake your head in disbelief.
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht ruled that a company can willfully mislead employees into thinking that they are going to continue being employed and still fire them whenever the company chooses. From a business angle, it makes sense: Employees that know they are on the verge of being laid off or sold out to a different company don’t work nearly as hard as the blissfully ignorant ones. From an ethical angle, these companies should probably do some soul searching and fast.
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Twisting the knife in the backs of the employees who filed the lawsuit, Hecht noted that it wasn’t really his fault that du Pont to screw them, it was the fact that employees in Texas are given hardly any protection from this sort of thing. By living in Texas, Hecht reasoned, these employees should have known better than to trust anything the people they worked for said or did because the legal system was certainly not going to help them out.
Mainstreet writes:
Writing for the court, Hecht noted that at-will employment in the state of Texas means that a worker can be fired “for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all.” While this is true to some degree in every state except Montana, many have carved out exceptions to limit employer abuse. Two of the most common are the requirements of good faith and fair dealing, and the implied contract exception (when your employer makes a promise even if it’s not in writing). Texas has specifically rejected both.
In Texas “good faith” and “fair dealing” do not apply to workers. Texas’ workers’ rights philosophy is “Hey, whatever keeps them slaving away. Right fellas?” Now, that extends to outright lying.
8211 Texas Court Decides Companies Can Legally Lie To Their Employees
If Mitt Romney is right and corporations are in fact people my friend, then they are definitely the kind you don’t want showing up at your parties.
The highest court in Texas decided that a company can legally lie to its employees if the bosses think the employees might bolt if they knew they were about to get screwed. Allow me to explain as you shake your head in disbelief.
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht ruled that a company can willfully mislead employees into thinking that they are going to continue being employed and still fire them whenever the company chooses. From a business angle, it makes sense: Employees that know they are on the verge of being laid off or sold out to a different company don’t work nearly as hard as the blissfully ignorant ones. From an ethical angle, these companies should probably do some soul searching and fast.
...
Twisting the knife in the backs of the employees who filed the lawsuit, Hecht noted that it wasn’t really his fault that du Pont to screw them, it was the fact that employees in Texas are given hardly any protection from this sort of thing. By living in Texas, Hecht reasoned, these employees should have known better than to trust anything the people they worked for said or did because the legal system was certainly not going to help them out.
Mainstreet writes:
Writing for the court, Hecht noted that at-will employment in the state of Texas means that a worker can be fired “for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all.” While this is true to some degree in every state except Montana, many have carved out exceptions to limit employer abuse. Two of the most common are the requirements of good faith and fair dealing, and the implied contract exception (when your employer makes a promise even if it’s not in writing). Texas has specifically rejected both.
In Texas “good faith” and “fair dealing” do not apply to workers. Texas’ workers’ rights philosophy is “Hey, whatever keeps them slaving away. Right fellas?” Now, that extends to outright lying.
Read the rest at the link. My bet is that RWs will be in favor of this because its just one more nail in coffin of worker's rights.
The right wants this country deep in the Dark Ages. They want the US to be a third world country and the poor dumb RWs are helping them.
8211 Texas Court Decides Companies Can Legally Lie To Their Employees
If Mitt Romney is right and corporations are in fact people my friend, then they are definitely the kind you don’t want showing up at your parties.
The highest court in Texas decided that a company can legally lie to its employees if the bosses think the employees might bolt if they knew they were about to get screwed. Allow me to explain as you shake your head in disbelief.
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht ruled that a company can willfully mislead employees into thinking that they are going to continue being employed and still fire them whenever the company chooses. From a business angle, it makes sense: Employees that know they are on the verge of being laid off or sold out to a different company don’t work nearly as hard as the blissfully ignorant ones. From an ethical angle, these companies should probably do some soul searching and fast.
...
Twisting the knife in the backs of the employees who filed the lawsuit, Hecht noted that it wasn’t really his fault that du Pont to screw them, it was the fact that employees in Texas are given hardly any protection from this sort of thing. By living in Texas, Hecht reasoned, these employees should have known better than to trust anything the people they worked for said or did because the legal system was certainly not going to help them out.
Mainstreet writes:
Writing for the court, Hecht noted that at-will employment in the state of Texas means that a worker can be fired “for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all.” While this is true to some degree in every state except Montana, many have carved out exceptions to limit employer abuse. Two of the most common are the requirements of good faith and fair dealing, and the implied contract exception (when your employer makes a promise even if it’s not in writing). Texas has specifically rejected both.
In Texas “good faith” and “fair dealing” do not apply to workers. Texas’ workers’ rights philosophy is “Hey, whatever keeps them slaving away. Right fellas?” Now, that extends to outright lying.
Read the rest at the link. My bet is that RWs will be in favor of this because its just one more nail in coffin of worker's rights.
Employees lie and steal from companies all the time, and even openly admit it.
Here's a thought...... if you want to claim the moral high ground, you have to actually live the moral high ground. Crazy thought, eh?
Ironically your own article refers to this.
"Employees that know they are on the verge of being laid off or sold out to a different company don’t work nearly as hard as the blissfully ignorant ones."
They don't work as hard? We have a term for that. It's called "milking the clock".
I had these nifty people in my life, called "parents". And they taught me that I should work the best I can, every day, regardless of anything. Why?
Because "milking the clock" is just a nice way of saying "Scum sucking thief".
And you want companies to be held to a higher standard than you yourself follow? That's called "hypocrisy".
Employees should worry about their own morality first. I wager more companies would be more decent with their employees, if more employees would stop milking the clock, stealing, and lying to their boss.
Post a link to the text of the ruling. Not somebody's opinion of the ruling.8211 Texas Court Decides Companies Can Legally Lie To Their Employees
If Mitt Romney is right and corporations are in fact people my friend, then they are definitely the kind you don’t want showing up at your parties.
The highest court in Texas decided that a company can legally lie to its employees if the bosses think the employees might bolt if they knew they were about to get screwed. Allow me to explain as you shake your head in disbelief.
Chief Justice Nathan Hecht ruled that a company can willfully mislead employees into thinking that they are going to continue being employed and still fire them whenever the company chooses. From a business angle, it makes sense: Employees that know they are on the verge of being laid off or sold out to a different company don’t work nearly as hard as the blissfully ignorant ones. From an ethical angle, these companies should probably do some soul searching and fast.
...
Twisting the knife in the backs of the employees who filed the lawsuit, Hecht noted that it wasn’t really his fault that du Pont to screw them, it was the fact that employees in Texas are given hardly any protection from this sort of thing. By living in Texas, Hecht reasoned, these employees should have known better than to trust anything the people they worked for said or did because the legal system was certainly not going to help them out.
Mainstreet writes:
Writing for the court, Hecht noted that at-will employment in the state of Texas means that a worker can be fired “for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all.” While this is true to some degree in every state except Montana, many have carved out exceptions to limit employer abuse. Two of the most common are the requirements of good faith and fair dealing, and the implied contract exception (when your employer makes a promise even if it’s not in writing). Texas has specifically rejected both.
In Texas “good faith” and “fair dealing” do not apply to workers. Texas’ workers’ rights philosophy is “Hey, whatever keeps them slaving away. Right fellas?” Now, that extends to outright lying.
Read the rest at the link. My bet is that RWs will be in favor of this because its just one more nail in coffin of worker's rights.
bingo...."Chief Justice Nathan Hecht ruled that a company can willfully mislead employees into thinking that they are going to continue being employed and still fire them whenever the company chooses."
And the employee can willfully mislead the employer that they love their job and like working there.. up until the day they quit and go to work for a competitor of the company. Fair is fair. Texas is one of the 'Right to Work' states. It works just fine. Especially when there are more jobs than there are available workers.
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THAT is your response. Use utter bullshit to impugn those who refuse to kowtow to your position?The right wants this country deep in the Dark Ages. They want the US to be a third world country and the poor dumb RWs are helping them.
Yep! That's why they're letting all those Illegal Aliens in to drive down wages.The right wants this country deep in the Dark Ages. They want the US to be a third world country and the poor dumb RWs are helping them.
Luddie is a typical liberal....Always complaining.Lud is like the antihero. Scouring the net for injustices. But instead of swooping in to right the perceived wrongs he just whines about them.
There is a big L on his cape I bet. Unlikely that it stands for lud tho
