Do Americans Workers Have Sufficient Rights?

You don't seem to care for the working poor.

 

No it's an employee's responsibility to mske sure he is not being taken advantage by your employer. When a problem arises you discuss it with your boss and either resolve the situation or you find another job.
That's what it means to operate a business in a free country.

The government's job it to butt the hell out.

 

I do care, raising the minimum wage causes businesses to hire fewer people.. investigate what the 15 dollar minimum wage did to workers in Seattle.

 

Well, in reality, many people just don't have that level of luxury. This is especially true if you have kids and your employer provides healthcare benefits. Would you want to play Russian Roulette with your kid's health coverage?

Oh, and there's a reason why unions exist and why employers hate them.

Reality:

Federal minimum wage is $7.25. After taxes and other deductions, that's $5.80/hr.

 

Of your employer provides health coverage you aren't being taken advantage of...


Ok then lets lower taxes...

 

This myth has been busted. Sorry.

Anyway, the very least a minimum wage raise would do is counter inflation. Everything except minimum wage has gone up. $7.25/hr doesn't buy what it did in 2009.

 

How about we raise taxes and create a universal, single-payer healthcare system like the rest of the developed world? How about we make paid maternity leave law? How about we require an employer to give notice before firing an employee?

 

It's not a myth, and it's alive and well.

 

No.

 

In America, a woman can be fired for missing work due to pregnancy. And Dad isn't even supposed to miss a day. (Maybe a text during his 15-minute break will suffice, in your opinion.) We Americans live to work, whereas the rest of the developed world works to live. Big difference. No wonder depression and suicide rates are so much higher in the US.

 

So what about professional economists who say otherwise? Or are you unaware of these arguments?

 

It is illegal to fire a woman due to pregnancy, has been since 1978.

Very few employers are going to force a dad ti work when his wife is in the hospital having a baby..

If we didn't work as hard as we do you wouldn't have half the crap you have on your home. America's wealth is due in large part to our work ethic.

Most suicide is young people who haven't even had the opportunity to develop a work ethic or any valuable work skills.

 

You can find professional anything to support whatever position you want supported.
Experts are worth exactly what you pay them for.

 

None do. At least, they haven't in decades.

 

It's illegal. Sure. But in most states, anyone can be fired for any or no reason. So it's a law without teeth. (You can find enough horror stories on Reddit.)

But the problem is that paternity leave is not legally protected in America.

It's not about work ethic. It's about not being trampled upon by those who use your labor to line their own pockets.

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Sure. Republicans did it in the 80s when they found doctors to testify about the "inconclusiveness" of the research on second-hand smoke, and they do it today with climate deniers and evolution deniers.

 

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You just want your religion to be the state religion.

 

The developed world has never been as hopelessly indebted

 

Why are you still here?

 

So then is it also the governments job to make sure workers don't take advantage of employers?

 

I take it you've recently been fired.

 

No. I've never been fired in my life.

 

Yes, but it rarely happens. It's always the employer who has the upper hand.

 

I'm an atheist, which means I have no religion.