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What is "predatory"? What is "just"? Justice for some equals unemployment for others. Is that just? If safety and breaks are mandated, and someone is still
by supernova87a 5y ago
What is "predatory"? What is "just"? Justice for some equals unemployment for others. Is that just?
If safety and breaks are mandated, and someone is still willing to work for less, you're stopping them from bargaining to have a job for less pay, do you acknowledge that?
If "predatory" is agreeing to what someone wants to offer to take a job, why don't you tell the worker not to offer/participate?
Your stopping the "predatory" behavior has done nothing to alleviate the person's financial situation that causes them to consider agreeing to it.
- IanKerr 5y agoIn a world where employees and employers have equal bargaining power and knowledge what you're saying makes sense. Given the opportunity though, businesses will do their best to hire workers that they can pay as little as possible and work as much as possible. It's the natural state of profitability to tend towards such a situation. In general this means there's a tendency towards increased work for lesser or equal pay, fewer benefits, poorer working conditions, etc. etc. Without a force pushing back on businesses in the form of regulations they will continue the race to the bottom as that is the most profitable thing to do.