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DamianTV
08-23-2014, 05:36 PM
http://rallyagainstomalley.com/court-rules-companies-legally-lie-workers/


Let the worker beware: in Texas it is now entirely legal to lie to your staff.

A recent decision from the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that at-will employees can’t sue their employer for fraud over the loss of their jobs. In his opinion, Chief Justice Nathan Hecht held that “while an employee can sue an employer for fraud in some situations… [a] claim cannot be based on illusory promises of continued at-will employment.”

In 2002 E.I. du Pont de Nemours announced plans to turn some of its operations into a separate subsidiary. Most of the affected employees were under a union agreement that gave them the right to transfer within DuPont if they preferred, a decision which would have cost the company an enormous amount of money to retrain the transfers and hire their replacements.

The employees were worried that if DuPont sold the new subsidiary it would hurt both their pay and retirement funds. To convince them to work in the subsidiary instead of transferring within the company, DuPont assured its employees that it had absolutely no plans to sell the spin-off. Based on this promise almost everyone moved to the subsidiary, which a few weeks later DuPont sold to Koch Industries. Koch cut both salaries and retirement packages. DuPont had, as it turns out, been negotiating this deal the entire time.

The Texas Supreme Court sees no problem with any of this.

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Cops can lie in court in order to obtain evidence, Evidence can be collected without a Warrant or Probable Cause, Plea Bargains, and on the Employer side, they can legally Breach Contract, make excessive demands, and force non job related actions. What do Employees get? The short end of the stick, thats what.

Truth really is Treason in the Empire of Lies.

(waiting for the Employer Apologists who think Employers should have Unlimited Authority over any employee...)

TheTexan
08-23-2014, 06:00 PM
I agree with you. Lying should be against the law. It might be kind of hard to enforce, so we'll probably need to add in some more laws giving police more lee-way in investigating these crimes. And we'll probably need to require some kind of paper work to be submitted to a government organization, for approval before transfer of employees is allowed, to prevent something like this.

Actually, more paper work and more government involvement in general would go a long way in preventing these types of problems.