Re: telephone switching system

On 28 Mar 2006 13:07:05 -0800, the renowned mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Spehro Pefhany wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:11:27 -0800, the renowned Tim Wescott
<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Tim Wescott wrote:

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*** Which are, on the whole, in my opinion, about right. Too lax and
you get sweatshops like the ones in the Phillipines, too strong and you
have a situation like you get in western Europe, where it's easier to
get divorced than it is to fire someone.


*All* of western Europe?

That I can't say for sure, particularly since I've never been involved
in firing anyone outside of the US, and I've never tried to get divorced
anywhere at all. Hopefully we'll get some input from western Europe,
and then we'll know. If their abortion rules are any indication it's
harder to get divorced in Ireland than other places, so maybe that'll
carry some weight...

AFAIK, it's easy to get rid of employees in the UK, just difficult to
do it cheaply (ie. for 'cause') except in the most extreme of
circumstances.

In some cases (management employees of quite long service, high level
of commitment such as relocation etc.), I think it might cost the
employer a year or two's worth of gross pay. Probably reasonable from
the employee's pov, but it would make one reluctant to hire..


This sounds an *awful lot* like Jim Thompson's communist arts professor
in ARIZONA, who was caught and had to be paid a lot of US $$$ since he
had tenure...

Jim... any comment?

Tenure is supposed to protect professors in particular... to grant
them academic freedom and make them relatively immune to political
pressure and summary dismissal for espousing ideas that happen to be
unpopular at the moment. The employment laws I'm talking about are for
everyone*. A salesman doesn't need academic freedom.

* well, excepting collective bargaining situations AFAIUI.


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