Why would the government presume to force employers to subsidize the lives of their employees?

Question

I have a task I need done, I give someone money in exchange for doing it. Plain and simple. Why must I wipe my employees bottoms?

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Answer 1

A contract is not a contract. Some Americans are more equal than other Americans. You buy patriotism through Blackwater.

If your caste system idea doesn't catch on pretty soon, I'm afraid to give you my opinion of what will happen.

Answer 2

Because arrangements where made that are being broken in many of these cases.  If corporations could deal honestly they wouldn't need to go to court.  But honesty hurts the bottom line it's cheaper to not pay out and give lawyers 10 cents on the dollar to fight it in some cases.

Answer 3

In the example you gave, an employee participated in health and life benefits with his employer. Employers offer benefits  to attract the best employees.

Said employee dutifully paid his premiums for the benefits offered.

Employee died of cancer at age thirty whereby the employer and insurer denied any benefit to the widow. When the widow sued... the employer used a loophole in the law that allowed them to refuse to pay and instead refund the premiums.

The government does not force an employer to pay benefits. Some offer them and some don't. The government does have a duty to force employers to honor their contracts with employees

Answer 4

You do it to get and keep good hard workers. If you do not the best will go to the man down the street and soon your run over because you can not keep up.

But if you do the government has rules and laws you must go by.

Answer 5

i would like to say something when employers pay fair wages to it,s employees then the money is distributed to all the workers and then all the consumers pay good money for goods and services.

Answer 6

I have a suggestion for you: Move to a Right To Work State where employees are treated like slaves and have no Legal rights and next to no incentives like Bonus pakages and insurance....When people wake up there will be a Worker's rebellion like you've never seen or you will be one of the Traitors Outsourcing Jobs like the rest of them and Sell us shoddy, poisoned tomatoes.  

Maybe American Workers will wake up and Start their own Employee friendly businesses and say good riddance to business like yours..