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How do you have employees in Syria? It’s a violation of federal sanctions.

Edit: In the US, UK, and EU.

I love when people just assume that everyone in the world just live in the US. Hackernews users are international and he uses Slack.

This is like when you see an HN thread about labour conditions and everyone says W-2, H1B, and "at-will state" as if the world has only one country.

We're not a US company (I hope there are no sanctions in our own country. I somehow doubt it, but I'm not entirely sure to be honest, so I won't mention the country to avoid getting us in potential trouble... Anyone knows which other countries enforce similar sanctions on Syria??).

The US, UK, and EU.

I wound be careful of you or your company reside here. The company I used to work for was fined for continuing services in Syria.

I think your are in Germany and the EU might have lifted restrictions based on certain industries.

https://www.ajc.com/business/investigation-into-syria-accusa...

I'm not a lawyer, but I am not aware of any restrictions to employ people from Syria, unless they were involved in military or related to the government etc.

There's more countries in the world other than the US, you know.

Presumably the employer isn't based in the US? (Sorry, but that seems the obvious answer to your question.)

Which might mean American companies can't employ people in Syria, but what does that have to do with the rest of the world?

The EU and U.K. are not in the US last I checked.

last I checked there are no restrictions on employment of Syrian people in the EU/UK, unless they are related to the government or military etc.

You just said you didn’t know and now all of the sudden you do?

It seems the harder restrictions were lifted in 2014 in the EU due to member state disputes.

Why don't we go and look? We do have the internet.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/sanctions-on-syria

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/financial-sanctio...

Well, there is nothing about restricting general employment of Syrians in there.

I said that I'm not sure, but that I doubt it. I then spent some time checking, and couldn't find anything to support your claim. If you have any sources that EU countries are forbidden from employing "normal" Syrian people (now or even before 2014), I'd love to see them. Otherwise, it really feels like you're just trolling to be honest.

Yes I am wrong and will admit it. Certainly not a troll!

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