>>>Declaring word "worker" as politically wrong, and replacing it with other politically corrected expressions, happened while I was en route, so I don't know the details.
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>>>Also, when was "wrong" replaced with "incorrect"?
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>>Some firms do seem to have a genuine desire to treate their employees reasonable well. John Lewis in the UK refer to them all as partners and seem to treat them quite well.
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>Which seems to be an honest exception. Elsewhere they call them anything but workers, but treat them like {insert your local expression here}.

One nice touch we have had here (and I'm sure its happened there as well) is companies raiding the company pension fund and then going bust leaving long time employees with little or no pension.