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Rights of Workers

Chapter 17

Civil Rights

The employees are allowed to exercise their civil rights either on or off the job.

The employees have a right to free expression on their own time is a civil right that their employer cannot morally deny them.

The employees also have the right to have the most extensive liberty compatible with the liberty for all.

Can employers though tell employees what to do when it affects them on the job itself?

Drink alcohol?

Smoke tobacco?

Be overweight?

Respect

The employees have a right to be treated with respect.

This means that a person should not be treated as a means only, as a part, or a tool.

Not all jobs can be properly meaningful, but they should at least treat persons with respect.

Sexual Harassment

If one harasses a person as a sexual object, then one is treated a person as a means, a sexual means, and not as a person.

That is a lack of respect and a person ought not be harassed sexually, whether because of his or her sex, or because of sexual orientation.

The right to a just wage

The right to a living wage, derived from a right to life, the right to employment, and the right to respect.

Make sure that no work conditions are unsafe, unsanitary and that other work place conditions that do not show respect for the workers’ health and safety are taken out of any labor negotiation. In other words, compensate if such conditions are themselves part and parcel of the job.

Wages

Wages should be proportional to the classes of need. Equal work needs equal pay. It makes no difference whether the work is done by a male or a female, single or married.

Wages should always be considered in the context of background institutions as well as of the local cost of living.

Make sure that the job market is open to everyone. That is, make sure that if a woman wants to be a truck driver and earn as much as a truck driver, she ought to have the choice to do so.

Fairness

Fairness beyond the Minimum

A just wage ought to be proportional to classes of need.

Hence, what one needs is equal recompense for equal work regardless of who the worker is.

Nevertheless, the market admits of discrimination in relation to skill level, and also discrimination in relation to what the market demands.

Drug Testing

Should employers test for illicit drugs?

Should people be required to have pre-employment screening?

Can it be used to find out other information?

A right to Privacy

Do workers have a right to privacy?

What constitutes a right to privacy? What constitutes an expectation of privacy?

Should that then be an expectation that has to be reasoned out?

How much privacy can be expected?

Is there an expectation to Drug Testing?

Or not?

The right to organize

The justification for unions

The prior right of individuals to the greatest amount of freedom compatible with a like freedom for all provides the sufficient justification for the right to unionize in the free-enterprise system.

It is part of the UNDHR article 23.

Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Provides strength at the level of contract (leverage between the worker and the employer).

The right to strike

There are 4 major actors in a strike: management, government, labor, and the general public.

The right to strike is found in the UN Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

There has to be a balance between the rights of the worker to strike, given that whatever harm is produced is not a greater harm that would be caused by their not being at their posts. An auto-workers strike, for example, versus a police force strike.