Oxfam’s new index of labor laws among peer nations shows you can have a robust economy AND a thriving labor force. Why is the US such an egregious outlier in failing to support working families? Look to race, class, and gender… And inequality.
A while ago, researchers at Oxfam set out to answer a question: if we compare labor laws in the US to peer nations, how does the US stack up? We figured the answer would be “not so great.” We didn’t anticipate just how poorly the US is doing.
It turns out that the US is at or near the bottom of every dimension of labor laws. Wages. Worker protections. Rights to organize. As the newly released Where Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off index lays out, the US fails to mandate measures that would guarantee a decent living, safe conditions, and freedom of association.
Indeed, our country does little to mandate respect for the dignity and humanity of all workers and their families; we leave it to employers to decide if they want to accommodate the very real needs of their workers. And they very often do not.
In stark contrast, our peers do vastly better in making sure the economy supports ALL workers and working families. Specifically, nearly all the other 37 nations in the new index have more robust labor laws (we measured the US against members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or OECD, as these countries all have relatively robust GDPs, and commit to democracy and free markets).
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