• ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
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    1 year ago

    And those interests sometimes align with yours! Typically when the company is legally in the wrong and they know they are fucked if you sue em

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      Yeah, but the HR people rely on paycheques from corporate. And corporate often has enough resources to make legal battles difficult at best.

      Even if their interests are aligned with you, they probably won’t have a job at the end

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            Hard sell, but also outspending isn’t in corporates interests either so I don’t know what you’re getting at

            If you have the threat of a losing, uphill and costly legal battle, the company is gonna be on the side of… having it not happen

            It’s always the bottom line

            Unless you’re being harassed by the chairmen of the board, the company likely won’t risk a big scandal and legal expense to protect your local middle management diddler

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              I’m talking about outspending on defense and offering settlements. It doesn’t take much to exhaust a wage slave’s capacity to keep a suit going, even pretrial.

              There’s a reason most cases settle before trial. The judicial system heavily incentivizes settlement and corporations can spend more on lawyers than their employees can.

              The employee’s lawyer is also gauging the cost benefit to their own time spent on the case, so the client/employee ends up getting shafted.

              Of course, if there is a really egregious case, like you’re envisioning, that can go farther down the road, but it’s still an uphill battle for the plaintiff.

              Edit: All this isn’t even taking into account the fatigue plaintiffs go through, waiting for their cases to even get in front of a judge can take some serious time and then a trial can be even lengthier.