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I’m struggling to see how it is equal. There seem far more benefits for the business owners than the workers.
I’m not suggesting bad intentions just that employers and employees have different needs.
But I do wish you all the best.
GoatandTricycle-
employers and employees have different needs.
Not really, not in small businesses. We all need the business to survive / succeed in order to get paid. In many cases, including mine, several of the employees make more money out of the business than the owners.
Much as I love the idea of 'workers of all countries unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains'.. the real world is a bit more convoluted than that.
As it happens, if the business goes tits up, I'll probably be more or less OK, mainly because I'm not that far off retirement age. A lot of other people, both employers and employees, are going to suffer a great deal.
Jingle_Jangle
There are a lot of businesses, in my sector and others, that will simply disappear if this goes on much longer.
Most of those businesses are essentially sound in all but exceptional circumstances.
One option would be to lay staff off until things get back to normal. This is not something we are considering at the moment, but at some point it may be forced upon us.
If we could lay our staff off without penalty, and if they could get their rent and subsistence supported by the state while this shit goes down, we could mothball the business 'till say September, then get back down on it.
If we had to pay out redundancy packages to everyone - that would be game over.
The point I was making is that for many many businesses, the interests of the owners, and the interests of the employees are one and the same.