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Severance? We don't do that here
Posted by Fired Fred on July 18, 2007 4:27 PM
'Here' being a company in Israel. I know, you thought this was going to be some run of the mill All-American firm putting a screwing to its workers. Happily, we've exported our venal corporate greed globally.
It reads like a logline from a mid-place finisher in Project Greenlight. Assis Tamang, a Nepalese man falls in love with an Israeli woman, relocates to her country to make babies with her, and gets a job.
Alas, his good work is for naught! His cruel bosses can him so they don't have to sweeten his pay packet as they boot Assis out the door...
But on December 3, 2006, eight and a half months after starting at Hashmira, he was fired without warning. Shocked, he called his boss, Gabi Lazarovitch, who explained: After nine months on the job, a fired worker must be paid severance pay. Therefore, the company fires all its workers shortly before the nine months are up and rehires them as new workers three months later. Lazarovitch stressed that Tamang had been a "fantastic" worker, but said he had no choice: This was company policy.This happens all over Israel, thanks to a law that would cost the greedy corporate bastards 20 to 30 percent more if they kept their people for nine months. It's security guards, janitors, people like that getting hosed by The Man.
It isn't just jeans and cigarettes people copy from America. They've got our corporate evil down pat too.