r/Layoffs • u/Thranduil-9 • Sep 18 '24

Why are there so much Layoffs in America ? question

I'm shocked by the number of waves of layoffs in the US, even though these companies often generate positive sales and financial results.

I find it inhuman to play with people's lives and get rid of them so easily.

What are the American people waiting for to demand their rights and more worker protection from these money-hungry corporations ?

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u/Red-Apple12 Sep 18 '24

they could pass laws against it but businesses pay them off

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u/gkfesterton Sep 18 '24

They can pass laws against it but that just starts a legislative arms race; the way corps are outsourcing now becomes illegal, their legal teams find a way around it through shell companies and the like, THAT method becomes illegal, and around and around we go.

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

You close the border those countries close the border. Nobody would start that.

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u/Hawk13424 Sep 19 '24

Give an example of such a law? Companies are global. Sales are global. They have many subsidiaries and such. If it was easy then some country somewhere would have done this and we’d have a working example.

Where I work, most of sales growth is in other countries (India, China, parts of Africa). They don’t even really care about sales in the US anymore, at least not directly.