Sounds Nice, Right?

This post will be one where I tackle some laws or pieces of legislation that sound really good but have unintended negative effects. These effects should be enough for us to give these a second thought.

1. Three months maternity leave - Let's start with a big one. This is great for employees! However, employers will feel the burden on this law when their female employees decide to start families. What's the unintended ill effect of this? Simple. Employers will be less inclined to hire female employees. It's not discrimination. It's just math. If two young applicants apply for the same position (one male and one female), keeping all other factors constant, there is no reason why the company shouldn't hire the male applicant over the female one. Reason? Cost! A female employee will cost more to a company as it will have to pay her while hiring another person to do her job for her during her time off.
2. CARP - oh CARP. CARP's aim was to let the farmers own the land they till. Sounds good right? Until you realize that CARP has made it so that big farms that used to produce lots of food now aren't able to produce as much. CARP distributes the land without much thought to the equipment and labor needs for each plot of land. What you end up with is many parcels of land unable to produce to the levels they used to.
3. SOGIE or (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression) - The anti-discrimination bill in congress is one I'm unsure we really even need and one whose implementation might be difficult in light of provisions on religious freedom. In job hiring, I don't know of businesses who discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity expression. This bill makes out the LGBT community to be weaklings who somehow need this kind of law in place and would actually further divide us. Filipinos are generally very accepting of the LGBT community.
4. End ENDO - gasp! Yeah, endo. Years back, I would have fully supported the End Endo movement. Endo might take up another future post all for its own. For now though, here's how Endo could possibly have some ill effects. Regularizing employees is expensive. They have benefits and it makes terminating them difficult if they ever become problematic in the future. What are businesses to do with growing costs of labor? They can go in one of two directions. Raise prices or Go automated. Going automated is what I see the bigger companies doing in order to keep prices low which would all but assure that smaller companies who raise prices would simply lose the competition.
5. Anti-Political Dynasty - for this, I've already made a post about this but in short, an anti-political dynasty law could possibly deprive us of having two completely competent politicians who just happen to be in the same family. I've also explained in an earlier post how to silently kill political dynasties without attacking it directly.

These are just some of the laws in the pipelines I decided to cover in this article. I could be wrong but I just want to put it out there.