Employment is supposed to be consensual on both sides.

It's not exactly consensual when one side has vastly more power than the other. If there's a 1000 others for me, then I don't have the power to negotiate up.

Nobody is forcing the worker to sign any contract they don't want to sign.

Hey, no one's forcing you to sign! You could just starve! Your choice! Har har har.

not "omg Democrats come force the employers to write the contract to my preferences".

Not everything that Democrats do is automatically bad. If they protect employees from ravenous corporations, that is... good.

What happens when your 1st "job" basically pays you minimum wage, or not at all and classifies itself as a school and makes you pay tuition, all because Democrat decided to ban freedom of contract regarding on the job training?

Yes, these are valid points. And I think I pointed out that in such cases, it should be allowed. But abuses need to be stemmed. It cannot be that a company gives you a worthless training "worth" $100,000, so you're basically an indentured servant.

The way it works here is that such training costs are amortized. So your contract says that if you quit within 1 year, you pay back 66%, in 2 years 33% and in 3 years 10%. That seems reasonable.

Arrogant liberals think they can micromanage the capitalist economy. It consistently leads to unintended and worse consequences.

Not consistently. I absolutely prefer the European model to the American one, where I have legally mandated PTO, unlimited "sick days" as you absurdly call them, and an assortment of protections.

It's all a trade off. None of it is a free lunch. The PTO comes out of my (FSB according to you) pay, effectively. But it is good.

Employment is supposed to be consensual on both sides.

It's not exactly consensual when one side has vastly more power than the other. If there's a 1000 others for me, then I don't have the power to negotiate up.

Nobody is forcing the worker to sign any contract they don't want to sign.

Hey, no one's forcing you to sign! You could just starve! Your choice! Har har har.