Employee rights as understood in this chapter, like minimum wage and protection against sexual harassment, lie outside of the bargaining that occurs between employers and employees. Unlike minimum wage, moral rights are justified by moral, rather than legal, "considerations. We will understand employee rights as those general moral entitlements that employees have to certain goods (or to protection from certain harms) within the workplace. They establish the basic moral framework for employer-employee relations. To the degree that there are such rights, employees cannot be asked to forgo these goods to get a job or to gain an increase in employment benefits. Employee rights function to prevent employees from being placed in what would be a fundamentally coercive position of having to choose between these basic moral goods and their job.