I hear in Canada, if you ask a contractor to build you a deck, he will often quote you two prices - a cheaper price “off the books” and a more expensive price “one the books”.
Laws passed to artificially prop up the marginally employable almost ALWAYS seem to kick them in the ass.
If they hired her they would have to pay her benefits, couldn't ever fire her, and she would have to pay taxes on her income and forgo her welfare/dole payments. So she works off the system - and despairs of ever having a ‘real’ job.
In the USA full time employees have a ton of benefits mandated by law. So many marginally employable people have to commute between two or three “part time” jobs - because nobody will offer them full time work - because then they would have to pay the benefits mandated by law.
When will advocates of State power catch on that most people will ALWAYS do what is in their own economic best interest?
Oh they know that. The issue is they're doing their damned level best to stamp that out. In the old USSR they simply killed you for it. That day isn't far off here anymore.