Shortly did your dad live and work in HK with its supportive labour laws?
If not, I imagine his views would be different.
My views certainly changed after seeing workers get smoked by the HK law courts.
This TA is about legally pulling the wool over our eyes, because the company may have finally realised the chickens have come to roost or it's out of the playbook how to fool a million dollar moron.
We might actually win a court case for once and the TB is unstoppable, other solutions are long term prohibitively expensive.
The TA as has been said takes the bullets away and hands the gun over to never be loaded again, except by them.