You said it yourself: it’s a contract. And the employee agreed to it. We can argue all we want about the power the employer has in the negations, but the realit

You said it yourself: it’s a contract. And the employee agreed to it. We can argue all we want about the power the employer has in the negations, but the reality is that the courts don’t like to intervene in contracts if they can avoid it (at least from what I’ve seen). If we want it fixed, we need legislation.