This paper traces the evolution of Patricia Werhane's theory of employee rights as she moves from the traditional human rights view to a socially constructed view of employee rights. In the course of that evolution, I argue that Werhane has a less robust view of human rights than she did when she first proposed a theory of human rights. I then argue that if Werhane adopted Martha Nussbaum's human capabilities approach, she could have both a traditional account of employee rights and plenty of room for the exercise of moral imagination.