Quotes about Labor Regulation

Emmanuel Macron

We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.

Howard Dean

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

Alfred Milner

The traditional policy is absolutely opposed to compulsory labor for private employment... It is a point of fundamental importance that there is no question of force or compulsion, but only of encouragement and advice through the native chiefs and headmen…

1st Viscount Milner. As bad as any colonialism was, compare this to the German approach to native labor {77560}.

Tom Perez

The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.

Adam Smith

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters [employers] and their workmen, its counselors [members of the legislature] are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Noam Chomsky

Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws.

Denis Boyles

The French 35 hour work week is a bribe given to the French people by a grateful government

The French solution to their high unemployment problem was to mandate a 35 hour workweek and ban overtime. The effect on business was to dramatically increase the percentage that the employer has to pay for fringe benefits. This raised the cost of labor and along with the French tradition of not working very hard. The economy weakened and the unemployment rate was still very high.

Henry Hazlitt

There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.

Marco Biagi

We must switch from a regulatory framework centered on the protection of individual jobs to the idea of protection on the market based on the concept of employability.

He was assassinated for his reform efforts.

Noam Chomsky

Free markets are based on the free circulation of labor. If you don't have free circulation of labor, you don't have free markets.

Herbert Hoover

The New Deal introduced to Americans the spectacle of Fascist dictation to business, labor, and agriculture.

Hoover, a brilliant administrator before his presidency, was so ideological about the role of government that when the Great Depression came, he was unwilling to use government directly to cope with the new problems. He was turned out of office in favor of FDR and the New Deal which the voters ratified 4 times. Hoover was embarrassed by the New Deal successes and lashed out with many insults. In this case, he called the New Deal “fascist”. See {629055} for another quote where he labels the New Deal communistic. Ironically, Hoover is rated by most historians as one of the least effective Presidents in American history while Roosevelt is always rated among the top 3 presidents.

Richard Collins

The individuals of the Hottentot Nation, in the same manner as the other inhabitants, should be subject to proper regularity in regard to their places of abode and occupations…they should be encouraged to work rather than to leading an indolent life.

Labor Regulation Quotes