This is a case why temporary work should not exist, and that contractors largely shouldnt either. They represent a lack of trust for the workers, and this is a good case for such regulation to exist.
Make the costs for temporary work (of any type, including oncall) on par with FTE work. More levels of indirection or short contracts? Congratulations, you have to provide more benefits than an FTE worker would have received. Then have a part of it that states that raising the requirements is an illegal circumvention measure.
Get rid of all the ways business can fuck with a worker, and things get better.
While you're free to make an app with any payment system you want, using anything but Google's own results in you being cut off from nearly all of the Android audience.
If there's a clear example of "force by practicality", here is one front and center.
Ok, then I'll clarify it for you: If you need a PR firm that has a reputation for having despots as clients, you have failed very hard to clean up whatever it is that you had to clean up.
In this case, Foxconn not only couldn't fix their image problem, the company actively did things to further damage it.
My father contracted out to a number of contractors the company could never justify having full-time, to do specialist work, which is the whole point. For example - a guy who knew CCDs inside and out. Another specialized in PCB layout, generating boards my father (an EE for decades, no stranger to PCB layout) described as "art."
Your father and his company represent the problem of increased distrust in workers, as opposed to training them up. They (and all those that use contractors to get out of the proper FTE) deserve any legislation that makes contractors more expensive than making them a proper part of the company with full benefits.
All these guys were well compensated for their work and in some cases had more work than they could handle
Exception, not rule for very few people. The majority of people are not meant to be a contractor, where they do well when there is stability and security.
If you want to talk about inappropriate use of contractors
The inappropriate use of contractors is anywhere within any science/technology interest, especially the lower-level ones. Flexibility is code for disposability.
Raise the benefit & liability requirements to the same level as FTE. Once all parties except the worker share liability and benefit costs for temporary work, multiplied over the number of middlemen as well as being inversely proportional to the length of the work (with the option to reward lower skill level entry)** one can then kill that abuse.
** - i.e. it would reward people who go on directly hired, lifetime employment with one or a few employers over being a one-night-stand contractor.
The more that business sends that kind of work offshore, the less interested people will be in having the rug pulled out from under them in the Holy and Unquestionable name of Global Competitiveness.
You want to get people interested in science & engineering? Kill all the guest worker programs, prioritize citizens over internationals for university slots, and start working with business to guarantee long-term work to attract people back.
If some kids got in there it was probably a corrupt HR worker trying to get a gig for his nephews or something - and they've improved the screening process, requiring good government ID
Which, given China, is something that can easily be faked.
They lied, got caught lying, got caught trying to use a shill organization like the "Fair Labor Association", and stand to lose money trying to defend their own lies. Their own country's propaganda department is so incompetent that they could not contain it or explain it. Those billions are going to be spent on figuring out how to not fail any worse.
Unfortunately for you, I (along with many other reasonable people) don't have the idea that profitability should come at the cost of morality.
There can't be many PR companies which have had clients like the Argentinian military junta led by General Jorge Videla who helped 35,000 people to disappear. Burson-Marsteller looked after the image of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and Saudi Arabia after it was pointed out that most of the September 11 attackers were from that country.
With clients like these, Burson Marsteller might as well be a propaganda firm given how many despotic countries outside the US are on the list.
Anyway, Foxconn is telling us that it has strict recruitment regulations to ensure full compliance with worker age regulations and laws.
That presumes that the records are accurate and that nobody falsifies them - including the Chinese government.
"We have sufficient access to workers who are of legal age and there is no incentive for us to break our own strict policies and Chinese law on the matter. Let us be very clear, Foxconn does not employ, in any capacity, any underage workers," the spokesperson said.
When you have to make a lot of product in a short amount of time, there is huge incentive to break your policies. Never mind that Chinese law only gets enforced if you're from the wrong family or alignment of families.
"It is a clear sign that SACOM is not interested in seeing actions that bring real benefit to workers in China. As such, they do a disservice to those companies who do provide competitive wages and benefits," Foxconn said.
SACOM is interested in bringing benefit to workers in China, just that they would rather see workers have some freedom - especially if it means openly speaking out against the multinationals and government officials that only want a pliant workforce.
In a sideways swipe to SACOM, Foxconn is working with "credible outside organisations such as the Fair Labor Association" to "ensure that our over a million employees in China have a safe and positive working environment and compensation and benefits that are competitive to everyone else."
Foxconn's definition of credible is "as long as they say things we like".
Foxconn top brass Terry Gou has been quoted as saying: "Hungry people have especially clear minds".
If his definition means willing to comply just for the meager rations given, even if one sees unspeakable acts.
Terry Gou also allegedly said, speaking at a zoo in Taipei: "I have a headache how to manage one million animals."
He sure has a very low opinion of the people that work for Foxconn if that's so good of a place.
Foxconn has done plenty of wrong - consulting with this(or any) PR agency only affirms it. There's only one option that should be on the table - confess the truth no matter how bad it is, correct the wrongdoings of slave labor and mistreatment of their workers, and then make sure it never happens again.
It's kind of hard to justify your actions when people catch you doing not-so-good-stuff (to say it lightly) and then catch your lies as well. That, and it's even harder to do it when people keep on catching you do it.
All fine and well if you don't want updates that the manufacturer won't give you. There's a lot of cases where this comparison review lists software deficiencies, but firmware lockdowns make things worse.
Never mind the content issues that come along with these devices.
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This is a case why temporary work should not exist, and that contractors largely shouldnt either. They represent a lack of trust for the workers, and this is a good case for such regulation to exist.
Make the costs for temporary work (of any type, including oncall) on par with FTE work. More levels of indirection or short contracts? Congratulations, you have to provide more benefits than an FTE worker would have received. Then have a part of it that states that raising the requirements is an illegal circumvention measure.
Get rid of all the ways business can fuck with a worker, and things get better.
While you're free to make an app with any payment system you want, using anything but Google's own results in you being cut off from nearly all of the Android audience.
If there's a clear example of "force by practicality", here is one front and center.
Ok, then I'll clarify it for you:
If you need a PR firm that has a reputation for having despots as clients, you have failed very hard to clean up whatever it is that you had to clean up.
In this case, Foxconn not only couldn't fix their image problem, the company actively did things to further damage it.
why shouldn't globalization mean the third world is empowered to rise out of third world status?
Not if it comes at the cost of the First World.
You are making the false assumption that globalization means the developed world gutting itself. It doesn't.
Despite your claim to the contrary, the developed world is gutting itself to prop up a region that is amenable to slavery.
Whether or not globalization guts you is dependent on how [overused buzzword] you are on the [overused buzzword]
So freedom for workers is not a market-friendly value, evidenced by businesses
My father contracted out to a number of contractors the company could never justify having full-time, to do specialist work, which is the whole point. For example - a guy who knew CCDs inside and out. Another specialized in PCB layout, generating boards my father (an EE for decades, no stranger to PCB layout) described as "art."
Your father and his company represent the problem of increased distrust in workers, as opposed to training them up. They (and all those that use contractors to get out of the proper FTE) deserve any legislation that makes contractors more expensive than making them a proper part of the company with full benefits.
All these guys were well compensated for their work and in some cases had more work than they could handle
Exception, not rule for very few people. The majority of people are not meant to be a contractor, where they do well when there is stability and security.
If you want to talk about inappropriate use of contractors
The inappropriate use of contractors is anywhere within any science/technology interest, especially the lower-level ones. Flexibility is code for disposability.
Nothing says the US can use its top-of-the-world position to bring it back to a more manageable US/UK/Western EU/Australia alliance.
Why should globalization mean that the developed world guts itself, sending the bits that made the country developed to some hellhole?
Guest workers are used for knowledge transfer, where said workers go back to their home nation.
Not if all other avenues are closed to employers. What excuses the current employer-side interference anyway?
Raise the benefit & liability requirements to the same level as FTE. Once all parties except the worker share liability and benefit costs for temporary work, multiplied over the number of middlemen as well as being inversely proportional to the length of the work (with the option to reward lower skill level entry)** one can then kill that abuse.
** - i.e. it would reward people who go on directly hired, lifetime employment with one or a few employers over being a one-night-stand contractor.
The more that business sends that kind of work offshore, the less interested people will be in having the rug pulled out from under them in the Holy and Unquestionable name of Global Competitiveness.
You want to get people interested in science & engineering? Kill all the guest worker programs, prioritize citizens over internationals for university slots, and start working with business to guarantee long-term work to attract people back.
On Virgin's mission to the Mariana trench - will it be a gentle descent, or will they keep hammering the bottom?
If some kids got in there it was probably a corrupt HR worker trying to get a gig for his nephews or something - and they've improved the screening process, requiring good government ID
Which, given China, is something that can easily be faked.
I'd imagine there'd be a way to comply with the heavy-handed order while having a venue that is out of reach of the ASBO.
What China practices is not capitalism. It is simply a more multinational-friendly version of despotism.
They lied, got caught lying, got caught trying to use a shill organization like the "Fair Labor Association", and stand to lose money trying to defend their own lies. Their own country's propaganda department is so incompetent that they could not contain it or explain it. Those billions are going to be spent on figuring out how to not fail any worse.
Unfortunately for you, I (along with many other reasonable people) don't have the idea that profitability should come at the cost of morality.
Quitting presumes that alternatives exist and that the government wouldn't find some charge to hold them up on if they quit at the wrong time.
Walking away would get them in trouble with the local authorities, whether it be on an actual charge or not.
That, and they would not be able to find alternative work.
The problem is that Foxconn had to bring in a PR firm known for whitewashing despots.
Their regular PR agency, known as the PRC's propaganda arm, just wasn't cutting it.
There can't be many PR companies which have had clients like the Argentinian military junta led by General Jorge Videla who helped 35,000 people to disappear. Burson-Marsteller looked after the image of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu and Saudi Arabia after it was pointed out that most of the September 11 attackers were from that country.
With clients like these, Burson Marsteller might as well be a propaganda firm given how many despotic countries outside the US are on the list.
Anyway, Foxconn is telling us that it has strict recruitment regulations to ensure full compliance with worker age regulations and laws.
That presumes that the records are accurate and that nobody falsifies them - including the Chinese government.
"We have sufficient access to workers who are of legal age and there is no incentive for us to break our own strict policies and Chinese law on the matter. Let us be very clear, Foxconn does not employ, in any capacity, any underage workers," the spokesperson said.
When you have to make a lot of product in a short amount of time, there is huge incentive to break your policies. Never mind that Chinese law only gets enforced if you're from the wrong family or alignment of families.
"It is a clear sign that SACOM is not interested in seeing actions that bring real benefit to workers in China. As such, they do a disservice to those companies who do provide competitive wages and benefits," Foxconn said.
SACOM is interested in bringing benefit to workers in China, just that they would rather see workers have some freedom - especially if it means openly speaking out against the multinationals and government officials that only want a pliant workforce.
In a sideways swipe to SACOM, Foxconn is working with "credible outside organisations such as the Fair Labor Association" to "ensure that our over a million employees in China have a safe and positive working environment and compensation and benefits that are competitive to everyone else."
Foxconn's definition of credible is "as long as they say things we like".
Foxconn top brass Terry Gou has been quoted as saying: "Hungry people have especially clear minds".
If his definition means willing to comply just for the meager rations given, even if one sees unspeakable acts.
Terry Gou also allegedly said, speaking at a zoo in Taipei: "I have a headache how to manage one million animals."
He sure has a very low opinion of the people that work for Foxconn if that's so good of a place.
Foxconn has done plenty of wrong - consulting with this(or any) PR agency only affirms it. There's only one option that should be on the table - confess the truth no matter how bad it is, correct the wrongdoings of slave labor and mistreatment of their workers, and then make sure it never happens again.
It's kind of hard to justify your actions when people catch you doing not-so-good-stuff (to say it lightly) and then catch your lies as well. That, and it's even harder to do it when people keep on catching you do it.
We wouldn't be in this mess if we had price controls.
All fine and well if you don't want updates that the manufacturer won't give you. There's a lot of cases where this comparison review lists software deficiencies, but firmware lockdowns make things worse.
Never mind the content issues that come along with these devices.
So if they were to publish more to make up for a quota, wouldn't that'd lower the quality a bit?
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