My point is this. It isn’t our business in a free country to tell anyone what to do in a business as long as it is legal.
It is not illegal to cut employees, nor is it illegal to take a bonus. If the employees costs are ruining your bottom line so that you make no profit, I do not see the problem.
As to whether it is moral, that is another thing. It is also immoral to have the government in control of peoples lives. That is where we are headed.
Yes it is wrong for the government to mandate what a business does in the course of perfectly legal actions.
What Macy’s did was not illegal...just bad business. They compensated one group of employees while axing another...not smart if they were trying to limit losses.