Essay talk:Laws We Need

Freelancers/Temps/Interns
I'm not entirely sure that there aren't circumstances where employers limiting employees' rights to work for competitors are not okay, but in those cases such restrictions should require commensurate compensation in line with the "golden handcuffs" given to certain senior managers or top researchers. Similarly, full wage for interns or trainees is not necessarily a great idea for the same reasons that apprentices typically earn less than fully qualified journeymen in traditional crafts. However, this might not be what was meant by "equal salaries to permanent employees"?

What is more important are the rights, a guaranteed salary and a clear number of hours, e.g. no unpaid internships or zero hour contracts unless the employee gets compensation, such as a retainer. Coming from a country where students are essentially being paid to study, I can also see cases where unpaid internships as a mandatory part of a formal education might be considered okay (here it is being compensated through the money paid to the student from the public coffers), although it must be monitored carefully to avoid abuse. ScepticWombat (talk) 11:27, 5 August 2017 (UTC)