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Why would the business make the rules that you suggest? It doesn't benefit them. It benefits the people to have rules about working conditions, so the people should make the rules. That is the whole purpose of government.
The only moral purpose of government is to uphold individual rights. In the context of labor, that means ensuring that employers are free to offer whatever working conditions they want, and workers free to accept or reject those conditions. It is economic freedom, not government regulations that leads to an improvement in working conditions over the long term.
In a free market, which our current economic system bears no slightest resemblance to, businesses have to compete with one another for labor just as they have to compete for customers. One important way that businesses can do that is by offering more favorable working conditions. The businesses who offer the best working conditions will attract the best and most productive workers, and the businesses who offer the worst working conditions will only be able to retain the least productive workers. The companies with the best workers will succeed, the ones with the worst workers will fail, and over the long term, the free market will improve the standard working conditions for everyone. Just as biological evolution improves the fitness of all members of a given species over the long term, the market evolves for the better as companies compete to beat existing standards.
Government regulations have arrested the long-term improvement in working conditions that otherwise would have taken place by either destroying businesses altogether or driving them out of the country. In fact, one of the reasons that some Asian businesses are able to offer poor working conditions is that they don't have to worry about competition in America, where it's prohibitively expensive to manufacture many things. By interfering with the free market, the advocates of "worker's rights" (special privileges for workers) are causing exactly the opposite effects of what they supposedly intend, putting Americans out of work altogether and condemning the Chinese workforce to poverty and stagnation.