Massive dismissal at VIP.com

Monday, February 26, 2007
Amigo Newspaper
Curacao

WILLEMSTAD – VIP.com that offers sports betting and internet gambling has dismissed 84 employees. VIP Management Services BV exists for ten years and is established in the Bon Bini Business Center at the Schottegatweg Oost. There are still 120 employees left, confirmed top executive Alistair Assheton.

The VIP-management has sent an internal e-mail to all her employees today, inviting them to a nine o’clock meeting. The employees were divided into two groups, and one group had to attend the meeting in the Hilton Hotel, and the other group had to go the meeting in the Floris Suite. The employees that went to the Hilton Hotel were told that they are still employed, while those that went to Floris Suite were dismissed.

They were told that they will get a redundancy of one week for each year of service, the remaining vacation days, and two weeks notice paid.

For all sorts of reasons, VIP.com has to downsize, said Assheton. One of the reasons for this is the new legislation that the US introduced against sports betting and internet gambling. It is almost no longer possible to pay via credit cards, money gram, or Western Union. Due to this, a great part of the business is lost.

I am not sure why it should make any difference:
 

If they are running a "bookmaking operation" on canadian soil, what difference does it make who the customers are, or where they are located?

So, if somebody is engaging in terrorism, doesn't matter if they do it in Canada as long as Canadians are not the target? You can kill foreign nationals?

I mean, don't get me wrong - the whole thing is a joke with what they are allowing the Mohawks to get away with at Kahnawake....the Canadian government already got their ass kicked in a previous standoff with the "natives," and they are very reluctant to try to enforce their own sovereignty over the reservations.

The other thing is discrimination: Bodog, along with many other sites, discriminates against people on the basis of ethnic origin, by refusing to give them the same bonuses as others. They still take their money, but won't give them bonuses.

That is a violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act....which is taking place on Canadian soil.

So, the question is whether the human rights being protected under the act only belong to Canadians?

Or only belong to people residing in Canada?

So, you can victimize people while you are on Canadian soil, as long as they are not Canadians and don't live there?

This whole issue of jurisdiction is an interesting one...with gray areas.

Canada, and several other progressive nations, have enacted laws that govern the behavior of Canadians in other countries.

Like Pedophiles...anybody Canadian having sex with kids in countries like Thailand or the Phillipines gets charged under Canadian law.

Apparently, the US Government does not have to follow its own laws on torture and civil rights when the victims are located in offshore locations.

I guess, as Dave's posts point out, it is all a question of whose palms are getting greased (i.e. Magna corp and the republican joy-riders).