Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Jul 18 2022 10:17:14

 Ar> Long story short: in Spain, the biggest source of employment are small
 Ar> to VERY small
 Ar> companies. Think of familiar business.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The problem is that with the current regulations, and employee gets more
 Ar> rights than
 Ar> the employer actually has himself. If you have a small bar in a corner
 Ar> that you run
 Ar> with your wife, it kind of sucks to hire somebody who is gonna get more
 Ar> revenue than
 Ar> what your actual equivalent salary would be.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Biggest issue right now is that throwing out a worker who is not doing a
 Ar> good job is
 Ar> getting so hard and expensive that it is often more economically
 Ar> efficient to keep him
 Ar> in. Basically, if a guy is greatly underperforming, you will either have
 Ar> to pay him a
 Ar> ton of money to leave of go to court and demonstrate he is a burden. This
 Ar> results in
 Ar> managers deciding not to fire dead weight - in fact I have seen small
 Ar> clinics reuse to
 Ar> sack employess involved in incidents with falsified documentation and
 Ar> dead people. How
 Ar> fucked up is that?
 Ar> 
 Ar> ALso they made temporary contracting so messed up that you cannot really
 Ar> hire somebody
 Ar> for a seasonal activity (ie. serving beer in peak season) and then send
 Ar> him his merry
 Ar> way. As a result, the companies that can use subcontractors - you
 Ar> subcontract a firm
 Ar> to give you a waiter for three motnhs, but that waiter works for the
 Ar> subcontractor, so
 Ar> you are not placing anybody under a legal payroll.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Most big companies don't give a damn and can absorb these issues. If
 Ar> they have to pay
 Ar> extra social security per employee, they will charge their end customers
 Ar> or outsource
 Ar> manpower from a foreign agency. If someboyd they hired does not work
 Ar> well they will
 Ar> hire more people and put the useless employees somewhere they can do no
 Ar> harm. It is
 Ar> the small business that can't afford to face these problems, and since
 Ar> they are the
 Ar> biggest generators of employment, in Spain, employment suffers.
 Ar> 
 Ar> --

We have better rights in Australia than in the US, and we have low unemployment here, very low.  Don't buy into the US Capitalist propaganda. 

Our minimum was is a little over $12 US per hour.  It didn't end our economy. Most of the "unaffordability" comes from housing, from letting speculators and landlords run rampant and supply issues.

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