South African labour laws make it hard to fire workers, which deters companies from hiring them in the first place.
One sign of greater labour-market flexibility is that companies are bypassing stringent job-protection laws that make it hard to fire workers.
The snag is that unprofitable companies, which should have been squeezed out by competition, have remained alive because it is so hard to fire workers.
Jackson expects each of his small labels to make money, though in some cases they are being run by family (hard to fire) or came at hefty price tags.
The five percent rule of the London market seems a good idea too, but you could argue that hard coded fire breaks could lead to a kind of moral jeopardy.
European Union member countries are introducing such laws, even though experience in America, where they are already in force, suggests that making older people hard to fire discourages companies from hiring them.
Also, some companies fear that it's too hard to fire French workers when things get tough and are instead eyeing countries like Spain, which has recently overhauled its labor rules and can offer some of the same advantages as France.
Then you shift gears and blame the teachers unions for protecting bad teachers that ought to be fired and dig into the all-too-deep trough of anecdotal evidence to dredge up a few examples of really bad teachers that were hard to fire.
The company pushes the service hard to new Kindle Fire owners, automatically giving them a free month when they activate their new tablet.
The attackers' firing positions in the mountains made it tough for U.S. troops to fight back, and bad weather made it hard for troops to fire back effectively, the source said.
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"The fire severely damaged the property and it was only the efforts and hard work of firefighters that prevented the fire from spreading to neighbouring properties, " added the fire service spokesperson.
After five-and-a-half years as prime minister, Mr Simitis, an ex-academic fond of hard work and detail, is under fire from some former supporters.
"We have got other irons in the fire and we are working extremely hard, " he added.
Hard-line Republican candidates were able to fire up their base by denouncing illegal immigrants and urging the construction of bigger border fences.
The EIA report has added fuel to that fire, as it will be hard for the world to ignore a fuel resource of this size.
The second was to use its balance sheet to help commercial and investment banks finance their holdings of hard-to-value securities and avoid fire-sales of assets.
That means he should have started by having the operation, getting through rehab and starting to train hard - that way he would be on fire at the beginning of the season when everyone else is tired from touring.
Volunteers can stay for a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of eight, and will need the hard work to burn off the big, fire-side dinners, including game stroganoff and local stews served with millpap, a mashed potato-like maize.
For the most part, this is the kind of place where you want to ski hard, cozy up in front of a fire with your honey and your kids, eat spaghetti, watch the movies you never had time to see at home or play Scrabble.
Fire and police officials took the death hard, and a contingent of them lined up outside a Philadelphia hospital late Saturday night.
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But other than that, it's hard to point to anything that will set the world on fire in the new phone, revealed Thursday at an event in New York.
Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
Items you'll need: computers (PCs or Macs), a main storage server, a back-up server (in case the main server dies) and portable hard-drive stored off-site (if the house catches fire).
It is hard to build new roads or schools, and far too difficult to fire bad teachers.
With the debut of the Kindle Fire HD, the dot-com bubble survivor is working hard to build out its own ecosystem with as little reliance on others as possible.
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But the current model of the fire service is over 50 years old and it's hard to argue the need for two stations which are just over one mile apart - at Matfield and Paddock Wood.
Mr. Koch's hard line helped him in later negotiations with New York's police, fire and sanitation workers.
But trade-union rules make it difficult to hire and fire workers, lower-paid jobs for the less skilled are hard to come by, and a combination of high taxes on low incomes and generous welfare payments reduces the incentive to seek work at all.
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