In article >,
Kathleen > wrote:

> sf wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:41:01 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Frankly, garnishment doesn't work very well. The first response of an
> >>employer is often to fire the employee.
> >
> >
> > Why would that happen? It doesn't seem legal!
>
> Because people with serious issues in their financial lives frequently
> also have issues as employees. Transportation, attendance, attitude...
> And when they impose an additional burden on their employers in the
> form of administering a garnishment, it runs out just that much more of
> their slack.

Also, many of these people work in low paid retail jobs. If they are so
financially desperate that they are having their wages garnished, they
are possibly desperate enough to steal. What better place to steal than
retail? It's already pretty rampant.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA