Sign of Strength or Weakness for future

If you were to receive a similar one time non-negotiable offer from your employee, how would you handle this issue?

Well, we cannot consider just the present scenario of supply and demand or whether the employee is replaceable or not. The employer can also take it as a sign of strength or weakness, wherein if he bows down now and agrees to the demands of the employee now, he may be prone to or rather subject to such future demands or rather threats where the employee will keep threatening about leaving, since he would believe that he has hit upon the employer's Achilles Heel (Weak Point).

Taking cue from this, other employees may start doing the same and this may start off a trend. So the employer may at times stand ground and refuse to budge. We see this often where strikes lead to no result and in fact the organization may be ready with a new workforce by the time you can be back.