Employers Quotes

I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally. With regard to the employer sanctions, we must have that not only to ensure that we can identify the illegal aliens, but also, while some keep protesting about what it would do to employers, there is another employer that we shouldn't be so concerned about, and these are employers down through the years who have encouraged the illegal entry into this country because they then hire these individuals and hire them at starvation wages and with none of the benefits that we think are normal and natural for workers in our country, and the individuals can't complain because of their illegal status. We don't think that those people should be allowed to continue operating free.

The workingmen have been exploited all the way up and down the line by employers, landlords, everybody.

No man will labour for himself who can make another labour for him.

Poor people don’t employ people; only rich people do.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated ...

When huge factories were established there could no longer be a close tie between the master and his men; the workman hated his employer, and the employer looked on his workmen simply as hands.

Juridically they are equal; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist … The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer.

Employers and employees alike have learned that in union there is strength.

He is violating his oath of office.

The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers.

A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

Our health insurance system was created in WWII when there was a huge shortage of workers for defense plants and offices. Giving health insurance was a way of recruiting people into the workforce. The employer centered health insurance system has been with us ever since, but no one ever designed it.

Employers crave the power to fire workers whose performance is judged inferior-not just to get rid of those particular workers, but more importantly to motivate and discipline the rest of the workforce.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

When employers are faced with substantial penalties for discrimination, then they'll begin to do something.

It is so stupid to deport foreign students who come here, study and get their degrees here, and want to start up a company and employ people.

Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of anti-black vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own. Indeed, all they had in common, besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, was that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.

A good butler should save his employer's life at least once a day.

Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

… employers, many of whom would like to be fair, are in a competitive business and they cannot afford to meet the demands of the union unless everyone in their line of business is forced to do so too

You cannot appeal from the classes to the masses. What the employer thinks, his workmen think. Of course I do not include questions specially relating to labour, in which there may be a direct conflict of interest.

With the laborers of England generally, does not the moral coercion of want subject their will as despotically to that of their employer, as the physical constraint does the soldier, the seaman, or the slave?

Create legal immigration channels that are wide enough and efficient enough that people choose to go through our system, not around it, We should have an orderly system in which families can stick together, people have rights, rules are enforced, and employers don’t cheat to undercut their competition.

States with better-educated citizens also see economic benefits. These states have better luck recruiting and retaining quality employers, and they enjoy lower overall rates of unemployment, poverty, and welfare dependency.