One major reason is health care, a per-worker expense, said William A. Niskanen, an economist at the libertarian Cato Institute.
Otherwise, Foxconn will cut corners to profit at workers' expense.
Kuttner laments the opening of labor markets in Europe as benefiting corporations at workers' expense.
For example, there is a big, lavishly financed push to reduce corporate tax rates; is this really what we want to be doing at a time when profits are surging at workers' expense?
Labor unions have often said that they would support expanded trade if agreements were not used as a way for companies to skirt labor and environmental laws at American workers' expense.
Workers that gained the most in this environment were good at mastering skills independently and navigating platforms' reputation systems so they could keep winning more work — albeit essentially at other workers' expense, on account of how the platforms' algorithms funnel more work toward the best-rated (meaning there's less for the rest).
The fall of unions over the past several decades also enabled the rise in profits at workers' expense, according to a May study by University of Haifa researchers.
Often it's not worth sex workers' expense or time to go to small claims court over several hundred dollars, even if that money could represent a month's worth of groceries.
Until that occurs, we will live with the shameful fact that the richest nation on earth has millions of full-time employees earning poverty-level wages while giant corporations and the wealthy amass trillions of dollars at these workers' expense.
As on-demand companies like Uber and Instacart find savvy ways to navigate employment law, the misclassification of employees as independent contractors allows them to maximize profits at their workers' expense.
Some payroll companies are also using tax relief claimed against workers' expenses to fund employers' national insurance and pay their own fees, which amount to millions of pounds according to UCATT estimates.
