I agree that the employee/employer relationship is highly asymmetrical. I'm now an employer of one, in Europe, and I can tell you I passed up on many candidate

I agree that the employee/employer relationship is highly asymmetrical. I'm now an employer of one, in Europe, and I can tell you I passed up on many candidates where the screening error bars should have been acceptable, but the error multipled by cost of firing were not. I suspect this actually a negative pressure on diversity as well, since any unconscious uncertainty is multiplied by the risk, regardless of how hard we try to control for our internal biases. A pooled legal team is probably a good idea to take care of the truely illegal stuff and provide advice based on industry standards. For knowledge workers at least, I believe union style employee protections are going to reduce the opportunity of average and below workforce and not benefit the top either.