Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI know what Right To Work is. I just thought literally almost all states had Right To Work legislation on the books
Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoI know what Right To Work is. I just thought literally almost all states had Right To Work legislation on the books
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 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.