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Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business
Julie188 writes: As you probably heard by now, Linux company Mandriva has finally, officially gone out of business.
The CEO has opened up, telling his side of the story. He blames employee lawsuits after a layoff in 2013, the French labor laws and the courts. "Those court decisions forced the company to announce bankruptcy," he said.
The company was having trouble in 2013 so it laid off some employees without compensating them as required by French law
Had they compensated the employees correctly there would have been no lawsuits and no judgement to pay.
The employees who were laid off in 2013 sued and won
Where is the evidence that the lawsuits were filed after 2014. If they were filed before 2014 the fact that the company did better in 2014 is irrelevant.
Had the company had compensated the employees according to law it would not have had to pay lawyers and probably court costs and may have survived.
the company was by law required to provide a severance package when laying off employees, which they did not. the employees sued for the severance package, and won.
They had already gotten what they worked for. They were stamping their feet and demanding severance money from a company that didn't have the money, and not caring if they destroyed the company and the lives of the superior employees who still worked there. Nasty, stupid children acting just as expected.
They were demanding severance pay that was already owed them by the company and had not been paid. The financial condition of the company is of no consequence.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
They're typically defining "poverty" as less than 1/2 the median income. It's really a dumb way to compare poverty across countries.
The U.S median income for a household is much higher than in France, thus someone below the "poverty rate" in the Unites States can be much wealthier than someone above the "poverty rate" in France.
In France, even with purchasing power parity, the median household income is (depending on if you use Gallup or OECD numbers) 70-77% of what it is in the United States. Using Gallup numbers, the "poverty line" in the US would be $22K/year vs $16K/year in France. Remember, these number take into account purchasing power parity (PPP), so you can literally buy about the same things in each country.
To put that into perspective for variations within the United States, the median income in Maine or Hawaii is 65% of that of Virginia or Utah (adjusted for cost of living).
According to the OECD, the "poverty rate" in Mexico is about $2250, based on a PPP median income of $4500. By their measurement, a barely "poor" person in the U.S. ($22K) would be considered upper middle class in Mexico. I won't bring up the really poor countries in Africa and elsewhere, but the "poverty rate" they're talking about is virtually valueless across countries for comparison purposes.
Put another way, the median income and thus "poverty rate" of Mississippi is higher than that of France, so I know which country I'd rather live in...
The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.