The best employment laws.

[McLeft]

Ok, this is something that I've been wandering for a long time. Let's say we have a moderate nation (not fully Communist, not fully Capitalist) in which elements of both the right and the left can be found, this being the scenario, I'd like to know what a government should do in terms of employment laws (this includes workers' motivation, trade union laws, training programmes, benefits system for the unemployed, etc) I am a person who believes very much that the well being of a nation depends 100% on its workforce and therefore the workforce should be considered as an asset and not as a threat (like many governments today believe). My point is, from a centrist/centre-left/moderate point of view, what should be the ideal/perfect employment laws a country should have considering the factors above (the ones in the brackets)

Thanks all very much

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I'll give my own ideas when I get some feedback.

[rouchambeau]

They should beat themselves retarded. That would make it easier for the people to take down the government.

[pofi]

They should support and give more power to the trade unions for sure. And free education is also a must. And some laws to obligate enterprise to give continuous training to their employees. Workers must be up to date in their domain and devlop expertise in their domain so our country can compete with other country. So you got to give more freedom to trade unions, so laws that help them, and you got to force your workers to be specialists, so minimum scholarship laws.

[patrickbeverley]

A minimum wage is an absolute essential, to prevent employers stabbing their workforce in the back with starvation wages, as is a fair employment tribunal. This is in the centre-left nation you describe, of course - it's still not the workers owning the means of production, but it is better than nothing. Where a country has a minimum wage, its workers are significantly better off than where it doesn't (this is why cocoa growers in African countries that have no employment laws are so badly treated).

[McLeft]

Thanks very much guys. The reason I asked the question was because I live in Britain and I have noticed a lot of strikes in recent years which all aim for better working conditions and better wages. Now I know that the chances of Britain being a Communist nation are very slim :( but it has more chances of being a centrist/centre-left nation which is why I asked the question, it's nice to have happy workers :) thankfully the minimum wage law already exists in Britain.

Again thanks very much for your answers.