Legal controls over employment are laws that do what?

• A. Governments pass laws to protect those at work so they are not exploited
• B. Businesses enforce non-disclosure
• C. Setting working hours by market demand
• D. Hiring quotas

Answer: (D)

Legal controls over employment are laws that protect workers from exploitation by setting minimum standards and rights in the workplace. Governments pass these laws to ensure fair pay, safe and healthy working conditions, reasonable working hours, protections against discrimination, and the ability to join or form unions. This is why the description that governments pass laws to protect those at work so they are not exploited is the best fit. Other statements describe practices (private non-disclosure agreements, hours dictated by market demand, or hiring quotas) that aren’t the general purpose of employment laws.