Amazon has been trying for many years to introduce American style working practices into the EU, disobeying laws on anti Union activities, maximum working hours directives, minimum holiday entitlement rules etc etc etc etc.
They got banned from directly lobbying the EU Parliament on the grounds of repeat offending and showing contempt for EU law and workers’ rights. If you don’t follow the rules, you don’t get a say in what the rules are.
It’s in Amazon’s interest to weaken EU workers’ rights generally because they’ll get fined less and can still be competitive in the jobs marketplace with even worse pay and conditions if working conditions weren’t so generally high in the EU compared to the US.
They’ve resorted to going via third parties who might also get banned as a result.
hi, I just came out of my cave, what’s this about? Lost track with the world for 5d already
Amazon has been trying for many years to introduce American style working practices into the EU, disobeying laws on anti Union activities, maximum working hours directives, minimum holiday entitlement rules etc etc etc etc.
They got banned from directly lobbying the EU Parliament on the grounds of repeat offending and showing contempt for EU law and workers’ rights. If you don’t follow the rules, you don’t get a say in what the rules are.
It’s in Amazon’s interest to weaken EU workers’ rights generally because they’ll get fined less and can still be competitive in the jobs marketplace with even worse pay and conditions if working conditions weren’t so generally high in the EU compared to the US.
They’ve resorted to going via third parties who might also get banned as a result.
omg… that is so evil, thanks David for clarifying