More labor protections also tend to cause higher unemployment rates. The unemployment rate in Texas is currently about half the rate in California. No one wants to see desperate workers exploited by employers, but if we increase worker protections too much then we end up hurting the people we meant to help.
Only because other states are offering cheaper labor by not having those protections, much like other countries offering cheaper labor by not having worker/environmental protections.
Theoretically, I agree it's possible to have too much worker protection, but it's a laughable notion in the US where pretty much all but a handful of states have no protections and "too much worker protection" is not even a remote concern.
I have a family member complaining that they cannot eat and have to stand for 8+ hours straight, a pharmacist because who is enslaved by their student loan debt, and are on the wrong side of supply and demand and there is no law that says employers need to give their employees the ability to pause and eat. So they snack on junk food in their pockets while they work.
