Workplace Regulation Quotes

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

OSHA's decision to regulate home workplaces reflects the agency's expanding conception of its own mission.

The time to fix our broken immigration system is now... We need stronger enforcement on the border and at the workplace... But for reform to work, we also must respond to what pulls people to America... Where we can reunite families, we should. Where we can bring in more foreign-born workers with the skills our economy needs, we should.

We need employer sanctions to avoid illegal immigration so that legal immigration may dominate.

People have to stop employing illegal immigrants.

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

We don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective...We haven't been able to require every employer to enter a system in which they check the work status of their employees and determine whether they're legal, and without that, we don't really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that's truly effective. And that would be the single greatest additional weapon we could use if we're serious about tackling this problem.

An employer verification system must be implemented to ensure jobs are not given to illegal immigrants.

I can not regulate Daryl Turner. He's a union official.

I believe that the Right to Work issue is a perfectly appropriate one for Indiana to look at.