If we're going to have regulation, I think it would be more productive for it to make it easier to quit your job. That should actually improve the free-market dynamics.
If I want to quit my job all I have to is not show up to work and eventually, after a few attempts at communication, they will send me a form letter and my final paycheck and remove me from the list of active employees.
Of course, being a more polite sort, I'd probably at least email my manager that I wouldn't be coming back.
Include "less dangerous" in "easier". Simply not showing up is not a good option for a responsible person trying to get ahead. Making sure the employment market is healthy and decoupling health care from employment might be helpful.
If I want to quit my job all I have to is not show up to work and eventually, after a few attempts at communication, they will send me a form letter and my final paycheck and remove me from the list of active employees.
Of course, being a more polite sort, I'd probably at least email my manager that I wouldn't be coming back.
But seriously, how could it be easier?