caa a22 4500 465817599 CHVBK 20180323112127.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00383393 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00383393 Millspaugh Peter George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, 22030-44, Fairfax, Va, USA aut Plant closing ethics root in American law [Elektronische Daten] [Peter Millspaugh] The harsh consequences of the American plant closing epidemic in recent years on workers, their families, and their communities, has raised widespread ethical and moral concerns. In the early 1970s, a diverse group of academics, social activists, public policy analysts, and special interest organizations developed a number of legislative proposals designed to restrict closings by law. The proposals encountered many formidable obstacles in an increasingly hostile free-market environment. The business community was itself moved to assume some of the burdens precipitated by closures either unilaterally or through collective bargaining. At the same time, powerful business interests tenaciously fought the enactment of mandatory closing restrictions into law. Nevertheless, through a prolonged and tortuous odyssey, the requirements of advanced notice and worker severence pay have now begun to root in law. Their success stands as evidence of a continuing American public policy receptivity to ethics-driven concerns. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990 Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/8(1990-08-01), 665-670 0167-4544 9:8<665 1990 9 10551 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00383393 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Millspaugh Peter George Mason University, 4400 University Drive, 22030-44, Fairfax, Va, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Business Ethics Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/8(1990-08-01), 665-670 0167-4544 9:8<665 1990 9 10551 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer