Other developed countries have much more family-friendly labor policies than the United States does.
The absence of family-friendly labor policy doesn't mean, of course, that we can't demand that men do more.
For Sweden, which prides itself on worker-friendly labor legislation — and which sent 20 members of a far-right, anti-immigrant party to Parliament in elections last weekend — the berry pickers quickly became the source of acute national embarrassment, with attention focused particularly on 190 Bangladeshi pickers who arrived in this modest town of pastel wooden homes earlier this year.
According to European investor Klaus Hommels, it's not the usual excuses we hear like un-start-up-friendly labor laws or a culture against taking business risk.
Further, if the MLR is such a critical and urgent consumer protection for all Americans, why are more than 900 favored entities including a few dozen Obama-friendly labor unions getting a free pass while the rest of us politically unconnected folks pay more for insurance?
Under California's studio-friendly labor statute, employers were entitled to hold individuals to personal services contracts for up to seven years; De Havilland's contract was set to end in mid-1943.
The business-friendly labor reforms in Macron's program follow on from policies that helped make Hollande the least popular French president in modern history and killed his chances of a second term by failing to ease unemployment.
"If there are a number of candidates and several of them are friendly to labor and respect labor's issues," he said, "I don't know if they are going to get involved too heavily until it is really Door No. 1 or Door No. 2".
"If [Clinton staffers] want to defend her service to one of the least environmentally-friendly, least labor union-friendly companies in the country, they're welcome to do that," an Obama spokesman said at the time.
"It's not as if this is an administration that is friendly toward labor".
