Employer Loyality Or Just Business

Christmas seems to be an unusual time of the year for employers and their employees. The employer must make decisions concerning employer/employee relations. A business owner gets caught between keeping the business in good standing financially or foster employer loyalty. Short term or long term results?

Charles Dickens in his story Christmas Carol deals with generosity of the employers heart. Unfair labor practices for the employee may be unfair for the employer. It is the Christmas Season, hard and fast rules of business should give way to helping the less fortunate.

What makes the differences? Does decisions change when an employee is employed by a small business or large corporation. After all a business that is on hard times should not go under for the sake of its' employees.

Christmas 2007, regardless the media wants to admit, is a difficult time. I walked through a small shopping center. Over half of the store fronts were empty. This one of the busiest sections of town.

Who do you think should shoulder the burden of this year's Christmas cheer? Employers or the working class? Or should we just treat the Christmas Season as any other time of the year?