Re:One Regulation Is Painless – A Million of Them Hurt
by CydeWeys on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @10:12PM
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I can't believe how far down in the comments I had to scroll to see this sentiment, and that it's sitting partially grayed no less!
To me it's completely obvious; if businesses could be trusted not to abuse their employees, then nannying regulations mandating lunch breaks wouldn't be necessary. Since businesses repeatedly abuse the power imbalances they have over their workers (including removing lunch breaks), there you have the regulations.
Re:One Regulation Is Painless – A Million of Them Hurt
by wtbob on Thursday April 28, 2016 @02:07AM
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> The people at fault here are those employers that did not let their employees have lunch breaks.
> We need regulations because some people are scumbags.
I'm not certain why we need lunch-break regulations at all. If one doesn't want to work under one set of working conditions, choose a job with another set. After years of hopeless complaining and misery I did so awhile back and I've never been happier.
Be active, not passive.
Re:One Regulation Is Painless – A Million of Them Hurt
by good_sir_ant on Wednesday April 27, 2016 @06:41PM
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Just not the regulators.
Of course not. And the same is true for nearly other regulation that is taking up business' time and money.
The people at fault here are those employers that did not let their employees have lunch breaks. And the companies that did not provide safety gear, and that refused to hire non-whites, and that wantonly dumped toxic chemicals in the rivers.
We need regulations because some people are scumbags.