Aaand there’s the actual motivation for “AI”. Eliminate anyone who knows better, get rid of tenured people who command higher salaries, fire the next in line until some catastrophic failure, then re-hire at the lowest possible pay when people are desperate because they see similar layoffs happening everywhere. Now you have a cheaper work force that’s scared and their tenure restarts at zero so you can avoid those pesky vesting period problems. They can argue about it in court, but they will not outlast a hoard of corporate lawyers.
Aaand there’s the actual motivation for “AI”. Eliminate anyone who knows better, get rid of tenured people who command higher salaries, fire the next in line until some catastrophic failure, then re-hire at the lowest possible pay when people are desperate because they see similar layoffs happening everywhere. Now you have a cheaper work force that’s scared and their tenure restarts at zero so you can avoid those pesky vesting period problems. They can argue about it in court, but they will not outlast a hoard of corporate lawyers.