If the United States government wants both world equality
and to save the American economy, one thing it could do would
be to implement an international minimum wage. This would
be so that if U.S. businesses outsourced, they would have to
pay foreign workers U.S. minimum wage. This way, not only
would American business be unable to exploit working
foreigners, but Americans would have many of their jobs back
(Foreign Labor 2003).
In addition to the low wages, workers in the countries
outsourced to are usually not protected under very strict labor
laws. Often, employment laws are either nonexistent or very
loose for the foreign workers filling outsourced jobs. Worker
safety measures are often not enforced. Worker benefits such
as health insurance and retirement are rarely implemented.
Laws preventing employees from such things as sexual
harassment and age discrimination by employers are also
loosely enforced. Unfortunately, this lack of strict employment
laws is a large reason why American companies do decide to
outsource (Armour 2004).
Offshore outsourcing is also often responsible for bad
working conditions in the countries outsourced to, particularly
in manufacturing. Factories that manufacture products used