Perhaps the solution is to give workers the right to have employment-related contracts reviewed and negotiated by an attorney of their choosing at the employer’s expense.

With actual costs attached, employers would suddenly have an incentive to keep their contracts as short and simple as possible, reserving the more onerous clauses for only the most senior positions.

Contracts for most positions would need to be kept short, reasonable, and comprehensible such that candidates don’t feel the need to exercise their right to attorney review.

This is one of the key reasons that unions are helpful to workers: each one of them doesn't have to go through this on their own. One expert does it for all of them.