Employment Protection Quotes

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers.

You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first things I voted on when I came to Congress. It was very thrilling to me, because when my first child was born, I was terrified of being fired. When my second child was born, I was a member of the city council, and in some ways it was easier to respond to 250 constituents than it was to respond to one employer.

We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us.

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

We deserve a Senator who helps us keep our jobs.

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

Workers in Myanmar must have an effective remedy when their rights are violated.

I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive.

Every president, Democratic or Republican, simply works on the supposition that it's better to keep jobs in America than let them go to Mexico.

Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.

Should any party try and eliminate social security, … and labor laws, you would not hear from that party much again.

Are Democrats for expanding U.S. trade with the world and perhaps creating new jobs, or are they out to protect existing U.S. jobs?

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

Employment and health insurance are now protected by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.

We are going to do everything that we can to protect working families in this country.