By Will Pollard
For the second time in as many weeks, a chief executive in the United States has been exposed warning his employees that a victory for Barack Obama in next month’s presidential election could mean the loss of their jobs.
The chief executive of Florida-based software firm AGS Solutions emailed his more than 1,000 employees on September 30 – implying that they should vote for Republican candidate Mitt Romney, and that their jobs would be at stake if Romney failed to win, MSNBC reports.
In the email – with the subject line “Will the US Presidential election directly impact your future jobs at ASG? Please read below” – chief executive and president Arthur Allen urges his employees to vote in “a new President and administration”.
“If the US re-elects President Obama, our chances of staying independent are slim to none,” he writes.
“If we fail as a nation to make the right choice on November 6th, and we lose our independence as a company, I don't want to hear any complaints regarding the fallout that will most likely come.
“When we buy a company, we eliminate about 60 percent of the salaries of the employees of that company. If we lose our independence and get consolidated, the same thing would happen to ASG's employees.”
‘Another four years of Obama threatens your job’
Allen’s email came to light this week following last week’s release of an ‘all staff’ email from David Siegel, founder and chief executive of Westgate Resorts – one of the largest resort developers in the world. Siegel told employees in his October 8 email that an Obama victory would force him to cut jobs, Gawker reports.
“The economy doesn't currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration,” he writes.
Siegel begrudgingly admits that “as your employer, I can't tell you whom to vote for”, but goes on to explain in no uncertain terms the consequences of Romney failing to make the White House.
“It's quite simple. If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current president plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company,” he says.
“So, when you make your decision to vote, ask yourself, which candidate understands the economics of business ownership and who doesn't? Whose policies will endanger your job? Answer those questions and you should know who might be the one capable of protecting and saving your job.”
Siegel has previously boasted that he was responsible for George W Bush’s victory over Al Gore in 2000, as he helped get those who supported Bush to the ballot box.
“I had my managers do a survey on every employee. If they liked Bush, we made them register to vote. But not if they liked Gore,” he told Businessweek.
“On Election Day, we made sure everyone who was voting for Bush got to the polls. I didn’t know he would win by 527 votes. Afterward, we did a survey among the employees to find out who voted who wouldn’t have otherwise. One thousand of them said so.”
Siegel is also known, along with his wife, for striving to build ‘the biggest house in America’.
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