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Comment by matte_black | Hacker News Reader

It's like you can't even run a tech company anymore.

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? We've asked you several times. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to ban you.

If you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site as intended, we'd be grateful.

I'd say it's a good thing overall for employees to have more power, it means that supply and demand is favoring workers.

Look for big tech to push for more H1B Visas to shift things in their favor by saying there's a "talent shortage". The H1Bs don't have the luxury of protesting stuff like this because they can be deported if they get out of line plus it drives down wages

Or Google would just grow dev centers elsewhere. No need for H1Bs in that case.

Getting rid of company-handled arbitration sounds less work for the tech companies?

No? It's much faster and cheaper to deal with the arbitration yourself than to have all the dirty laundry aired out in public courts, which will almost certainly be a long, expensive process.

"Yourself"?

I am quite sure you are not aware of the issue here. We're talking about binding, or forced arbitration. Often times, people are unaware that they are being forced into arbitration, and when they are, it severely limits their legal recourse. There's little reason to support it, unless you're a huge company with liability concerns.

Here's a good source on the matter:

https://www.consumeradvocates.org/for-consumers/arbitration

Then don't force it. If it truly is best for both parties, both parties will opt for it. It doesn't need to be required.

If you don't want to have your "dirty laundry aired out in public courts", then don't have dirty laundry.

No one tries to have dirty laundry, and if you are a company of any significant size there’s going to be dirty laundry regardless.

I don't accept this statement. If employees attempting to seek redress over HR issues would hurt the image of a company than that company has some really toxic stuff going on.

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I am not sure what you are implkying here but most (95%+) men do not use women like object in western countries.

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