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- From: stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (coram populo)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: But it is OK to coerce certain groups...
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:08:57 GMT
- Organization: Santa Cruz
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- In article <1k4tkrINNo5q@morrow.stanford.edu> XA.U20@forsythe.stanford.edu (June Genis) writes:
- >In article <1k1dc2INN8tn@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>,
- >stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (coram populo) writes:
- >>For instance, it would be acceptable for a business, not to pay one empolyee's
- >>benefits for health insurance, while paying another employees, and give no
- >
- >A contract of any sort comes into existance only when the terms are
- >acceptable to both sides. Why should anyhone else besides the
- >direct parties to that contract be able to dictate to those parties
- >what acceptable terms are?
- >
- >/June
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-
- That is not my point- if a employer is to have full decision making power over
- his business- then it is quite OK for him/her to discriminate at any given time.
- If for instance he decides that he doesn't like employee A, even though A's
- work is excellent, he can do things like, stop paying their health benefits or
- maybe reduce their salary at any given time.
-
- So the point is- if we have non-discrimination laws, then they become part of
- the contract between employee and employer. And therefore the employer cannot
- simply fire or cause trouble for an employee if at a later date the employer
- discovers that A is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or a mormon.
-