<story><title>The War Inside 7-Eleven</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-09/7-eleven-is-at-war-with-its-own-franchisees-over-ice-raids</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>While there seems like a desire to blame 7-Eleven here, they are completely right to not want to have their franchisees violating federal immigration laws. While they are insulated by the contractor-contractee relationship, the government is humourless about these sorts of things. The violations are easy to prove (either you have proper employment documentation or you don’t) and enforcement is politically popular. That’s a bad combination from a corporate risk management point of view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notacoward</author><text>Selective enforcement even of an just law (or contract clause) is itself unjust. That&amp;#x27;s what the article&amp;#x27;s about - not that 7-11 is trying to enforce the rules, but that they are &lt;i&gt;selectively&lt;/i&gt; enforcing against certain franchisees, and using taxpayer-funded muscle to do it.&lt;p&gt;Imagine if use of work computers for anything personal was a widely violated rule where you work, but the only people who ever seemed to get busted were the ones who had made complaints to HR, and they brought in the FBI to do it in the most intimidating and humiliating way possible. But hey, they did wrong, so the company&amp;#x27;s morally right? No.</text></comment>
<story><title>The War Inside 7-Eleven</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-11-09/7-eleven-is-at-war-with-its-own-franchisees-over-ice-raids</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rayiner</author><text>While there seems like a desire to blame 7-Eleven here, they are completely right to not want to have their franchisees violating federal immigration laws. While they are insulated by the contractor-contractee relationship, the government is humourless about these sorts of things. The violations are easy to prove (either you have proper employment documentation or you don’t) and enforcement is politically popular. That’s a bad combination from a corporate risk management point of view.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mabbo</author><text>While I agree with you, I also feel that 7-Eleven Corporate has taken the wrong approach to this. They&amp;#x27;ve made it &amp;quot;me vs you&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;us vs the problem&amp;quot;. They&amp;#x27;re pushing the franchisees in aggressive ways to extract more money out of them to start and then hiring a police force to spy on them. Now it sounds like they&amp;#x27;re sending out ICE against anyone who criticizes them, even those not breaking the law.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not a healthy relationship.&lt;p&gt;When corporate pushes margins thinner and thinner, only those willing to break laws will be able to survive.&lt;p&gt;Take the money being spent on surveillance vans and ex-cops and instead spend it on incentive systems, on committees of franchisees, of groups designed around &amp;quot;how can we solve this problem?&amp;quot;. Stop using a heavy hand and start working &lt;i&gt;with&lt;/i&gt; the other side. They&amp;#x27;re not the enemy here, they&amp;#x27;re the lifeblood of the company.</text></comment>