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Please give information why it is important for an employee to be honest and have good morals, why an employer needs to protect themselves against lawsuits and dishonest employees.
The Moral Obligations of Workers
In a free market for labor your skills will be better appreciated elsewhere if you have your job and boss.
There was a time where workers understood their moral obligation to their employer. Workers would try to do their best job possible for their employers. This has changed over the last several decades.
The right to quit and the right to fire are two sides of the same coin. You can't force someone to stay at their employment and you can't force a boss to keep an employee. Employment depends on voluntarism from both the employee and employer.
If an employee and employer continue the economic exchange their own free will. In a free market all employment contracts work on a mutual advantage of both parties.
Workers nowadays think less and less of production and honest dealings and more and more about rights, protests, strikes, and lawsuits.
Job Conflict
Troublemakers in the workforce have an exalted status as well as the legal right to grab whatever they can get from their employers.
Employers fear getting sued especially for discrimination.
Employers must pad their staffs with officially recognized victims if only to protect themselves from government investigation and class action lawsuit. This has shifted the balance of power in the workplace.
Workers no longer view their first obligation as to do their best work for the sake of themselves and the company.
In a free market if an employee tried to complain against a company and said a company discriminated and the employee did not like their job then the employee would quit the job and go somewhere he or she is appreciated more.
Also in a free market if an employee complained too loudly undercutting the morale of other employees and creating a hostile work environment the employee would be fired. If this is the employees fault then the employee would learn a valuable lesson in workplace ethics and human relations. If this is the company's fault they would have lost a valuable employee.
The system of mutual rights creates peaceful cooperation between the employee and the employer. Each understands the obligations he has to the other.
A free market makes it possible for labor and capital to exchange mutually advantageous and profitable manner.
Workers find joy in providing for themselves and their families.
Employees have the upper hand much to the detriment of his own ethical well-being.