It has been my experience that, whenever labour laws that are favourable to the employees/designed to protect the employees, someone will protest it because it

It has been my experience that, whenever labour laws that are favourable to the employees/designed to protect the employees, someone will protest it because it can be abused by employees. Of course, laws that protect people can be abused; I don't doubt that there are people who are out to game the system for all it's worth. But how come they never consider the flip side of employee protection laws; that the employer has more opportunity to screw the employee over when there are little to no laws protecting the employee. Aren't employers just as corruptible as employees? And they're in a position of power, to boot. An example? One of the replies you got. I suspect such attitudes are part of the whole mindset; corporations first, then the rest of us mooching, non-job-creators.