No matter how "well-paid" one is as a waged/salaried worker, no matter how safe & pleasant the working conditions and work-place may be, no matter how much autonomy and discretion as to the pace, direction, etc. of one's waged/salaried work one is allowed by one's employer ...
... no matter how "important" and "strategic" one waged/salaried work contributions and output are treated and experienced as being, waged/salaried work and workers are DEPENDENT on the will of employers (who may be/are themselves in part subject to the will of still others).
No waged/salaried employee is ENTITLED to, has an enforceable right to, anything other than the agreed-upon compensation package for surrendering the right to use their working capacities to their employers.
No right to KEEP one's employment, no right any part of their employers income resulting from one's work contributions, no right to decide how to work, with what and whom to produce what and for whom, none of that.
Maybe one's employer wishes to reward their waged/salaried employees for their willfulness, character, creativity, gregariousness, whatever. No waged/salaried employee ever becomes ENTITLED to be rewarded for those, against the employer's will.
The waged/salaried employment relationship is a structurally unequal power relationship, whereby the employer is guaranteed a greater probability of effecting THEIR will in the social action against the contrary will of the employee participant in the social action.
The relationship is not one of absolute domination of employees by employers, of course. And employees are NOT without power (as defined) vis-a-vis their employers. Still, it is always and necessarily the case that the overall power of employers is superior to that of employees.
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