A chara, – I write in response to Melanie Crowley's opinion piece, "Government policy on remote working could hurt flexibility and deter investment", (Business, March 15th).
Her arguments about how certain worker protections need to be removed to ensure competitiveness and productivity sound like someone loading a starter pistol for a race to the bottom.
The fact is that profit chasing, if left unchecked, will always come for worker’s quality of life. These modest proposals to remove legal bulwarks in exchange for potential material gains, are pernicious and perennial.
They cannot be satisfied and return, time and time again, erode a little bit more away. Where does it end? – Yours, etc.
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KYLE MULHOLLAND,
Dundalk,
Co Louth.