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>that worker will then surely be fired by Tesla because they're pretty good at retaliation.

Fired how? I though you can't fire people just like that in Sweden.

>In theory Sweden is no different. But they're not going to step in to this until the unions and Tesla have had their options exhausted

This still doesn't make sense. The law is the law, and breaking it is just as bad with or without union discussion, no?

Like if the law says you need to give your employees X, Y, Z and you haven't , the that's breaking the saw and the state should immediately intervine.

>Time will tell if that is true and what it will do to Tesla brand perception in Europe.

I doubt it. VW reduced hundreds/thousands of collective years off our lifespan and their cars are still flying off she show floors so I doubt Europeans are gonna stop buying Teslas because of union disagreements in Sweden.




Of course you can fire someone. You then can be challenged, you have to show cause and what actions you took to build your case and there is a process to deal with that. And in the end if you got it wrong as the employer you have to pay up. But it's definitely possible to fire someone.

Not like in the US though, without any controls or oversight. Sweden is in that sense probably one of the better countries to be an employee in.

> This still doesn't make sense. The law is the law, and breaking it is just as bad with or without union discussion, no?

Yes. But the problem with these allegations is that you need to prove them and that isn't all that easy.

> Like if the law says you need to give your employees X, Y, Z and you haven't , the that's breaking the saw and the state should immediately intervine.

I agree with you, but in practice that's not how I have found the world to work. For the state to intervene someone has to make a formal complaint first. Otherwise the authorities will not make a move.




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