Written by Dr. Melik Peter Khoury
Work, Law, & The US Competitiveness in A Global Economy.
Workplace Protection or Paralysis?
The uncomfortable truth is this. The very structures meant to uplift workers may now be holding them back. Until work is no longer the dominant structure for earning a living in this country, we must be willing to examine the consequences of a system that confuses protection with paralysis.
This is not a critique of employee rights nor employer misconduct. It is a clear-eyed examination of what happens when rules designed to prevent abuse are extended so far they begin to silence feedback, discourage earnest employees, paralyze decent competent managers, and stall competitiveness in a global economy that is moving faster than ever. For decades, worker protections were a moral imperative. Today, they risk becoming an economic liability.
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