I dunno, banks and financial companies push for personal finance classes in school, even though a lot of them depend on people sucking with finances. I do not think big employers would necisarrily oppose a class on employees rights.

For one thing, they know that the most vulnerable people would absorb little to nothing from a required high school class. I mean, do you remember high school? Just because something is taught hardly means that everyone will learn it.

But more insidiously, it shifts everything to personal responsibility. If an employee is screwed out of a wage, they just didn't know enough about their rights, or they were too lazy to fight it. We don't need laws protecting employees, they just need to stand up for themselves! Meanwhile without sufficient help, it's pretty much impossible for employees to actually do that no matter how much they know about the system.

Even extremely informed employees can find it hard to stick up for money they're owed. I know lawyers who just let unpaid salary slide because they'd be unemployable (at the sort of firms they want to work at) if they sued an ex-employer. The poor sap at Walmart has no chance.