Don’t forget that once you get that job or hire that person, you’re still not free to have an employer/employee relationship, based on a mutual agreement, and free from government oversight. Min wage laws kill jobs because businesses simply can’t afford the cost of more workers. Mandatory overtime compensation causes severe job fluctuation by forcing companies to hire temps during busy seasons, while preventing solid employees from benefiting from those busy seasons. As both employee and employer (at different times) in the same industry, I never understood why I, or anyone I hired, was considered more valuable after 40 hours/week.

A worker doesn’t need government to dictate working conditions. If you don’t like the conditions, find another job.

By the same token, an intelligent employer will maintain good relations/conditions with employees to keep them from finding other jobs.

That’s called free enterprise and works to the advantage of the company, the employee, and the consumer.

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Death by a thousand cuts.

Really, the only solace is that while all these laws are crazy, this is still the most free country in the world.

Government is, was and always will be corrupt.