"If an employer can find someone to do the job cheaper and better than you can then tough sh*t.
I wonder how well employers would like this rule turned around - luckily the laws they're protected by get enforced."
And dont you know it happens all the time.
Ever wonder how cheap teak furniture would be if you could fly to India and buy it there, then pay to have it shipped to the USA? Dirt cheap.
But US furniture manufacturers wont let that happen because, they claim, it will cost Americans jobs.
So when it suits them, preserving American jobs is all that matters, but when it goes against their desires, then it doesnt matter if Americans keep their jobs.
Soon they will argue to keep import tarriffs and controls in order to let illegals keep their jobs!
After all, products should be available at the lowest possible price, and more providers is better.
Then both employer & employee can struggle in a perfectly competitive world.