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by Frost1x 2229 days ago
While there's some power in voting with your choices, it's not really voting because a true vote with your choice must occur without being under duress or leveraged.

When it comes to employment, unless you're swimming in money and are basically just working for the sole purpose that you enjoy it, you're leveraged into adjusting your vote accordingly to your best option.

When true competition exists and your labor easily transfers, then by all means, select employers with reasonable practices. Relatively few people get to completely pick where they want to work and for what position they work. Most of us who aren't the top say 5% in our field pick a few handfuls and take a shotgun approach to see which opportunity lands. If none of those options land, we move to options we don't like because not working isn't a viable option.

Right now with unemployment rates skyrocketing, you have even less flexibility because labor is even more leveraged and have to cave into more and more policies like this.

The only way to protect labor in these situations, aside from organized labor unions, is creating enforceable regulatory protections for labor.