When I took a job at Drexel University as the manager of the technical group responsible for the mainframe systems, I inherited a middle-aged black man who had lost a leg to diabetes. He only came into the office once a year, and that was to update his benefit choices at the personnel department.
I was charged with trying to get him engaged so he would show up at work and actually do something. He said he prefers being in the Caribbean all year playing with his steel drum band. I tried giving him made up work that he could do remotely... documenting disaster preparedness plans and things like that. No luck, not interested one bit.
Every year he would simply tell me "there's no way you can fire a handicapped black man in Philadelphia, so I'm not changing". He was right.... we eventually had to pay him off to leave.
What a great system huh.
That story highlights why so many companies will simply re-locate to another country; who in their right mind keeps paying for that nonsense? Companies prefer doing business where someone with that work ethic simply starves to death.