AEM 2300 Lecture 2: 1/30/17
23 Feb 2017
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Lecture 2: introduction to labor and employment law. Early on, there were no federal laws regarding labor. Unions were widely regarded as criminal conspiracies. Public policy/welfare: free market should determine wages; not artificially by organized labor. Liberty: if a person wants to work at a wage outside of the agreed upon wage of an organization, they should be able to. Spirit of 76 : us is founded on free market principles. Requires a higher burden of proof (e. g. beyond a reasonable doubt) Civil charges only require that the law is violated more likely than not . Judge established that wage should be set naturally: by quality, by supply/demand, totally free-market ideology. Spirit of 76 - free market is what the country is founded upon (constitution); protects against this kind of wrongdoing. Liberty to contract - should be able to take lower wages if they"re willing to work for them. Very modest fine was intended to set precedent.
