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Old 05-19-2008, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Scharke View Post
For what it's worth, I'm on my third Mexican employee and it's been nothing but a great experience. I've found young, smart, enthusiastic people who are thrilled to have the opportunity to work and learn. I've never had a problem. There's lots of locals here who just want to learn, work and grow. Enter into it with a good, respectful attitude and I assure you, you'll get the same thing back from your employees.
So glad to hear you've had good experiences. I think the point people were making earlier is that you need to be proactive in the employee/employer relationship and protect yourself. A good, respectful attitude is very helpful and the only way to be, in our opinion, but it won't protect you in this country in an employee/employer dispute and it doesn't necessarily guarantee a similar attitude from your employees. We are lucky that we have finally found a very good staff, but it took us quite some time, and we went through some less than positive experiences with people along the way, despite our good attitude.

It's no different here than anywhere, really, when it comes to hiring and firing people, except that here the laws lean toward the employee, so you need to be careful. Compared to our home state of California where employment is "at will," this is a very different environment.

~Cheri
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