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I'm really tired of reading how business owners are "forced" to layoff workers. No one made them do that. They *chose* to do that. Not saying it isn't a hard choice, during a hard time, but to say they were *forced* obscures their agency AND casts owners/CEOs as the victims.
Oh Lordy, Twitter. Grasp the nuance of what I'm saying. I am NOT saying that it's not a hard, sometimes impossible decision. But it's still a DECISION. A CHOICE. Think about the meaning/implications of the word forced. No one is literally being forced to layoff workers.
AND that attitude in general, that business owners/CEOs take certain steps because they HAVE TO as opposed to because they CHOOSE TO, helps mask exploitation of workers in general in a million other ways — "have no choice" but to pay low wages, no benefits, etc.
Good lord this is a beyond ignorant take.
Small businesses have no income coming in. Can't pay rent, suppliers, taxes...etc. It really isn't a choice.
I am not a business owner, but if the business can't pay employees right now because there are no customers, doesn't letting them go allow them to file for unemployment? It seems like local business owners here have been pretty distraught about letting go of their staff.
I am a small business owner, and yes, furloughing or laying off people allows them to apply for unemployment. No customers = no sales = no money to pay people. It's not a situation where we have highly-paid CEOs, shareholders, big profits, etc.
The owners of the small business that were *forced* to lay me off are victims of the federal government's horrificly botched response just as much as I am.
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