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Originally posted by Agamemnon@Feb 9 2005, 05:09 PM
Seems pretty obvious. Companies get around labour rights and human rights in North America by going to places where those rights dont' exist. If you're hurt here, or die on the job, you're entitled to compensation. You're also protected from wrongful firing, like your boss hitting on you and then canning you. In fact, there are hundreds of little 'socialist benefits' that all of you (in N. America) are taking advantage of right now, whether you like it (or know it) or not.
I suppose if you think you're entitled to these benefits and protections, and other peoples in other places aren't, then there's no conscience issue here. For you.
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So what if those companies get around little socialist labour laws? Good on them. Protection against wrongful firing is a human right? It might be `a right` in Canada thanks to collectivist thinking but it has nothing to with individual rights that truly exist. No one has a right to work for me if I don’t want to employ him. Whatever terms of contract two parties (based on their respective property rights) agree upon is considered a valid contract. If both you and your employer agree you are entitled to compensation when you are hurt, then you have such entitlement. If you and your employer don’t agree on that then you don’t have such entitlement. End of story.