Question

Advantage and disadvantage of labour legal systems

Answer 1

There is something fundamental to a person’s identity about work. “People’s jobs are their

lives,” says Claire Prestel ’02, a staff attorney for Public Justice who previously worked for the

Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the labor and civil rights firm Altshuler

Berzon. “It gives you your sense of who you are as a person, your sense that you are contributing

to society. Anyone who has been laid off or spent a period of time involuntarily unemployed

knows how bad that feels.” Work allows us to pay the bills, but is also a fundamental outlet

through which we express ourselves to the broader communi