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> yet we still take steps to protect people from discrimination on those avenues despite having no metrics.

The issue is that the U.S.A. knows at-will employment to begin with where a man might be fired or hired for rather arbitrary reasons.

In many countries, the onus is on employers to justify their reasons to make financial sense.

Pertaining to Japan, I once had a discussion with someone from the U.S.A. who learned that sexual orientation is not a “protected class” in Japan, and he had assumed that that meant that one's employ could be terminated over one's sexual orientation. Japan, as it stands, is notorious for it's nigh impossibility to fire an employee for about any reason other than willful, dishonorable, illegal conduct. Even an employee that is not being sufficiently productive in Japan will be hard to dismiss if the court find that he still tries and puts in enough effort, but simply finds it hard to manage. — personal reasons, such as sexual orientation or anything one does at home is completely off the table, of course, and thus in no want of any special protection.




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