CoolB1, agreed. I won't need HR to do anything for me personally, but try motivating someone to work in a location under the circumstances outlined, circumstances that they feel so strongly about that they would go to HR for some kind of redress, knowing in all likelihood the futility of it. If they don't get redress and they're forced to return, it'll be "star star star TSR", work to rule and delay delay delay. They will go out of their way to make the company pay. And the company won't be able to do a good goddamn about it. Like I said, better a volunteer than a conscript.