The government ensures that employees have such rights as: Proper notice for termination, Limit on weekly work hours, Minimum wage, Mandatory breaks and rest periods, Youth labour laws , Right to refuse unsafe work, And many others! Governments wield a lot of power and are privy to information outside of the public sphere. It is against the law for government officials to use private information to gain profit, this is called insider-trading. Recently a group of US senators sold a significant part of their stock portfolio after a private briefing about the damage COVID-19 would do to the stock market.