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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob

Can I just make an intervention here regarding workers rights.

You can have all the rights and guarantees you like and you can blather on and on about protecting them till you are blue in the gob and the cows come home. But if there are no jobs because employers see employees and their rights as an expense rather than an asset, what use are they?

No reasonable, rational person would deny that the principle of a fair days pay for a fair days work is part of the social contract. The days of rapacious mill owners compelling wokers to slave for all the hours that God sent and paying them coppers for the privilege are long gone.

Get over it and move on! Please. Before we all die of boredom.

If you make it so complex and expensive to employ people then businesses will, of course, not employ people. They will move to jurisdictions where business can be conducted at a profit, which is the point of engaging in business, rather than as a branch of Social Services.

From the excesses of the Victorian Mill owners the pendulum of workers rights has swung to the opposite extreme today. What we need to find is some mutually acceptable middle ground.

If nobody minds, I won't be holding my breath while I wait.

First class post Bob