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2019-03-18 Economy

NYC Bill Would Outlaw Unfair Terminations in the Fast Food Industry

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Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-18 10:32|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 "Should employers have the right to fire people for any reason, including the most trivial reasons?

Kind of the definition of at-will employment.
The harder you make it to dismiss a worker, the less likely an employer will be to take a gamble on hiring someone. We see that in Europe already.

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-18 11:04|| 2019-03-18 11:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Cuz every employer frequently wants a new employee with learning curve and training costs at low productivity for "no reason at all"

Posted by Frank G 2019-03-18 11:08|| 2019-03-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 so dont fire, just reduce hours and they will quit.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2019-03-18 11:11|| 2019-03-18 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Wut no price fixing?

Staying profitable ain't exactly a trivial reason.

Most people would say that's not a right people should have.

Most people don't attempt an enterprise, especially food service, where one bugwit employee can sink the whole effort. Remember salsa balls? Local entrepreneur attempts local alternative to grub hub, sunk by 30 year old soy boy trying to be internet famous for 15 minutes.

The harder you make it to dismiss a worker, the less likely an employer will be to take a gamble on hiring someone.

In the meantime, established business get ground between the millstones of higher payrolls and lower profit margins.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-18 11:15|| 2019-03-18 11:15|| Front Page Top

#5 "You can't fire people for spitting on cops' food..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-18 11:33|| 2019-03-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#6 We're gonna need a whole new bunch of bureaucrats to determine what is fair and what is unfair.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-18 11:47|| 2019-03-18 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 A business should have the right to fire someone if they are simply trying to cut costs. If you want a job for life run for Congress (sarc).

Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-18 12:40|| 2019-03-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Far better to have businesses competing to employ folk via a strong economy and stopping immigration subsidies than to preventing sackings (which will prevent hiring).

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-18 12:47|| 2019-03-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Atlas shrugged, the prophecy...

https://www.conservapedia.com/Directive_10-289

Posted by CrazyFool 2019-03-18 13:28|| 2019-03-18 13:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Caracas on the Hudson

Can't wait for the toilet paper decree

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-18 15:58|| 2019-03-18 15:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Other than the obvious 'What is a fast food restaurant?' I mean, are we talking food trucks, hot dog stands? Those walk-in deli sandwich shops? I know, eventually everybody, but who gets it first?

Here is a good one:
Employer finds out employee is an illegal.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-18 17:32|| 2019-03-18 17:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Here is a good one:

City finds out a business doesn't employ any illegals.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-18 18:25|| 2019-03-18 18:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Yeah, really.

OK, 'nother one:
Employee keeps coming to work drunk. He's rude, not up to the task, way too many bathroom breaks, maybe he is washing his hands. Fired.

Two weeks later owner gets a letter from city attorney - ends up employee is illegal and claims that is the reason for being let go. In sanctuary NYC that is not a good reason and business is in violation of the law.

Owner can go to court to prove their innocence, that is time money and damn sure better have documentation - or settle out of court. Boned either way.

Posted by swksvolFF 2019-03-18 18:49|| 2019-03-18 18:49|| Front Page Top

#14 ...so they do what New Yorkers have done for generations. You go to the 'family' and pay for 'unemployment insurance'. Problem disappears.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-18 21:22|| 2019-03-18 21:22|| Front Page Top

#15 This is from Atlas Shrugged. And not even the early bits, but from the middle, where things are really turning downhill and everything is, really, well and truly screwed. The only different here is that there are plenty of areas outside of NYC where this idiocy is absent.

Posted by Vernal Hatrack2366 2019-03-18 21:40|| 2019-03-18 21:40|| Front Page Top

#16 I like it.
Boost the minimum wage then lock in the slackers.
That'll show the capitalists!

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-18 22:41|| 2019-03-18 22:41|| Front Page Top

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