during a Pleasanton, California, robbery — is designed to protect employees, supporters say, by forbidding employers from instructing employees to confront shoplifters.
Even accepting Cortese’s argument that the legislation doesn’t prevent employees from intervening in cases of theft and only makes it unlawful for employers to ask employees to stop thieves from stealing, the legislation would be disastrous. This is the culture that is driving companies out of California. It’s not just crime or high taxes or pandemic mandates. It’s a culture that shows disdain for property rights, which are“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence,” John Adams famously wrote in 1787.