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eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company
  • To prevent ... what kind of behavior exactly? Firing people? I'm for the government protecting peoples interest, but also a business needs the freedom to hire and fire as they see fit, without beuaracy involved. Maybe you're more referring to a union?

    how do you know management is not also being fired? Should the 'people' be given a list of potential fires and they vote on who the business can fire?

  • eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company
  • you are forgetting that businesses already pay unemployment. That is their 'fee' basically. Your unemployment funds come from the payments a business makes during their monthly or quarterly taxes they pay to the state. When they fire anyone , their unemployment payments they have to make increase the following years. Each year the state looks at how many people a company hired / fired and adjusts their payments for the year. And that calculation takes account the last 3 or so years where I am.

  • eBay will lay off 1,000 employees — 9 percent of the company
  • You're suggesting the government should be be involved in a private business hiring / firing decisions? And pay fee's also? So if a business is having a down time, they don't have funds for payroll, you want to fine them? A large project concludes, they lay off those people, they need a fine? So they'll need to calculate fines into the price they charge for projects?

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    Republicans Trying To Kill Program That Brings Affordable Broadband To The Poor
  • “As lawmakers with oversight responsibility over the ACP, we have raised concerns, shared by the FCC Inspector General, regarding the program’s effectiveness in connecting non-subscribers to the Internet,” the lawmakers wrote. “While you have repeatedly claimed that the ACP is necessary for connecting participating households to the Internet, it appears the vast majority of tax dollars have gone to households that already had broadband prior to the subsidy.

    I can't wait to use this argument against them about school vouchers

  • Samsung is adding cloud gaming to your Galaxy phone, and it could arrive this week
  • Samsung adding apps to my device automatically is why I'm not getting another Samsung device. Recently my tablet (galaxy tab 5e) received the game of thrones game app automatically. And there is no way to uninstall

  • Google sets its Pixel 8 launch event for October 4th

    We’ll meet Google’s newest Pixel devices in just over a month now that the company is sending out invitations for an in-person launch event on Wednesday, October 4th, at 10AM ET in New York City. The invites are going out just one day after Apple invited the media and others to check out its iPhone 15 hardware at an event on September 12th, as the fall calendar quickly fills with events.

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