Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
I stayed in the quirky little Hyatt in Brussels once long ago, it was definitely an unusual hotel for Hyatt! Multinationals don't like Belgium as local law has many disadvantages for them there, including basically the inability to ever fire or even lay someone off. That's why you also don't see MickeyD's, KFC, or Skcubrats in Brussels AFAIK.
The laws are actually nowhere near as bad in the Scandinavian countries, it should be possible there.
What??? So how does your attitude square with the fact that Hyatt has Paris properties, where the employee protection laws are as strong, definitely a positive for the worker. Or even the Hyatts in Chicago, (home sweet home for Jay et al,) where a WARN notice seems to be required if you want to do wholesale layoffs.
Richard, they may end up revoking your NorCal privileges, restricting you to certain parts of CoCo County, only, with this attiude.
I always thought that McD's were not as prevelent in Europe as they had better taste than us. Though I think even the Belgians have the McD experience.