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The folly of Labour laws

Recently I heard that government wishes to up the minimum wage requirements for domestic workers. This got me thinking about the increased strictness of labour laws in our country. 

Over all labour laws serve to protect the employee from the employer, they have given them the right to strike, the right to unionize and the right to basic perks above and beyond a salary. But who do these laws truly serve their mandates?

Although these laws play a good role in keeping the poor “half” of the country away from what could be dubious contracts, they lack the foresight in realizing that the unemployment level is too high for this to be functional. That anyone seeking ANY form of employment just to live may be forced out of a job or to come short of finding one at all due to employers not being able to meet these requirements. 

Quite frankly, Labour laws restricts the abilities for employees to seek employment when employers are bound to provide them a certain level of remuneration when in most cases such terms are unreachable.

One must realise that labour laws are then only designed to protect the employed and not the unemployed. It is then understood that labour laws protect the rights of those existing in Jobs  All these rights are thus unavailable to anyone not employed. The constitution continues to decree that the rights of the weak and disadvantaged are protected by these laws yet when unemployment remains at over 30% and rising, its hard to believe they're working.
  Truth falls in the adage that when one makes something more expensive someone will want less of it. In the same light when Labour law becomes more restrictive, demanding more rights and more power to employees then business will become less likely to hire. Balance is difficult to attain in all aspects but too much power on one side shifts the balance over causing overall harm to the economy. Labour laws have already failed their moral framework in giving and advantage to the employed (being the stronger) over the increased unemployed (being the weaker). 

The relaxing of labour laws will create an increase of employment, uncontestably. But more over it will allow the now employed to have more power in numbers to demand better working conditions in their own right when employers are less likely to fire for the sake of finding someone else to fill the job. This will also include the employed who may have had to suffer a temporary dip in employment benefits.

The situation becomes worse when labour unions ALSO become part of the problem. It is inferred that unions do not appreciate the notion that a freer labour market might actually improve the welfare of the nation because it means that unions no longer have the power that they so enjoy now. Unions continue to lose sight of their true purpose when such ideas become a reality. But to think of it like this, would labour laws still be on the increase if these unions understood that labour deregulation was the right course? even if it meant that employers may gain an advantage again? Do unions and for that fact government, truly understand that uplifting the rights of both parties would be preferable to uplifting the rights of neither? It seems not.
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