Right to Work Specifics

• While the idea of a right to work philosophy seems to suggest that every individual has the right to have a job, the idea in practice serves a very different goal. The right to work philosophy is comparable to the individual right to marry, giving everyone the right to marry without obligating the government to actively find a spouse for everyone. The right simply prevents the government from taking certain actions that would eliminate jobs, create laws that prevent unfair firing practices and protect employees from workplace discrimination.
  
  

Job Creation

• The right to work philosophy extends a responsibility to government to work as a force for job creation. While a literal interpretation of this philosophy suggests that government should create jobs for each individual, the philosophy in practice suggests government action that works as a social motivation for job growth, which includes deregulating certain industries where government regulations are stifling job growth, establishing fiscal motivation for job creation and promoting the safe and efficient testing of new merchandise for the establishment of new industries.
  
  

Limitations

• Politicians and economists discuss the existence of a natural unemployment percentage, a level of unemployment where they consider the country fully employed and assume that every individual who wishes to work can find a job. This number is also known as full employment. The right to work philosophy requires this number as a goal, holding to the principle that once a country has reached full employment, the government has done its part to fulfill the job existence part of the right to work philosophy. The full employment level differs between economists, but most place it between 4 and 6 percent unemployment.
  
  

Right to Fair Work

• The right to work philosophy suggests that the government should enact laws that protect working employees. These protections include anti-discriminatory laws, equal pay laws and protected leisure laws that protects employees from unfair work expectations such as excessive work hours. Additionally, the right to work philosophy also protects employee rights to form unions, seek union representation and to work through their unions for job security and fair worker's rights without the fear of losing their job.