Quote:I think there's a real fear from many people that if they own a business and have to hire help, that they will be either stuck with bad help or will go broke by being sued, whether the suit is successful or not. All because the person they hired is an activist for (pick anything). That person just has to accuse the employer of discriminating against that form of activism. It's that easy.

 

There are more and more signs of that happening all over the place today, so it's not just something founded in paranoia. It's very real these days, and it's a very real impediment to commerce.

 

The way around that is to have very robust hiring, firing and disciplinary procedures. If the expectations of an employee are explicitly clear it is easy to monitor and if someone is bad at their job in most cases and in most work places, it shouldn't be too hard to prove it.

 

I agree that of course we don't want a situation where employers have their bosses over a barrel the whole time but going the other way wont help either. We live in a country where the vast majority of people work for someone else and it's only right they are protected from going broke and losing everything if they are fired for no good reason.

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