In many companies, the employees work from 9 am to 9 pm, six days a week. Should the government issue regulations to prohibit such practices? Does it affect the freedom of workers to work?
usually labor laws also define the normal daily and weekly hours of work. I think that it is the effort of Unions to negotiate with governments and employers to establish such laws.
LABOR UNION works only where it exists; it exists only where labor law is intended to protect labor rights as a matter of law not lip service. In places where abusive labor condition exists, such as 12 hours shift, labor union is etheir not existent or only serve as a rubber stamp.
LEGAL INSTITUTION in these countries should be stronger and more receptive to people's rights, including labor conditions and work hours. Workers working under long work hours condition is not a matter of freedom to work, these people are compelled by economic condition because generally they come from impoverished background and these companies are generally engaging in labor intensive. The problem is a macro issues that should be taggled by the government. When labor union has to step in, it says something about government neglect so that workers are left to self-medicating through non-state effort for intervention. A goverment that cannot govern properly should not rule. If it comes through an electoral process, let the poll speak for the people in the next round of election. If such a government remains in power by force, thus inures and tolerates such abusive condition in the economy, let the international community express its ire upon such incompetence.
Suppose I work for a tech company, and I am perfectly happy to work 15 hours a day. What is the role of the government in such a situation?
I am certain that labour laws do not restrict the right of people to work longer than the law suggests. A law becomes only effective when people insist on their rights. If someone really wants to work 15 hours a day, he / she would not go to court when this is done. However if people are forced to work 15 hours a day despite they don't want they can take the matter to court, if the law does not permit 15 hours work a day.
Mr Joseph, any suggestion to my remarks that no labor law prevents anybody from voluntarily work as much as the person wants to, but it protects those who see other values in live than to work endlessly long.
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