One may be tempted to draw a similar conclusion from the decline of unionization in the U.S. and the increases in labor regulations over the last 50 years.
"Because there are no resources, we are not able to enforce the laws, " said Khair Mohammad Niru, director general of labor regulations at the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled.
High marginal tax rates and burdensome business and labor market regulations put huge wedges in the EU's labor markets and severely limit the EU's growth potential.
The rule follows two other high-profile attempts by the Obama administration to use labor regulations to ease union organizing efforts.
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The union is also pushing the Labor Department to adopt new regulations.
It says that the auditor does not express an opinion on the financial statements and supplemental schedules, but that the auditor does provide some assurance that the form and content of information included in statements and schedules comply with the Department of Labor rules and regulations.
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However, the report says lack of parental leave and benefits and other supportive labor laws and regulations are among the least important barriers to women moving into senior jobs.
Officials at the Department of Labor have proposed new regulations that they say will protect 401(k) participants and Individual Retirement Account holders from greedy advisors who have conflicts of interest.
For conservatives, that means abolishing the minimum wage, but the most pervasive and pernicious way our government raises the price of labor is not through labor regulations (although there are too many for sure) but through payroll taxes.
The extra costs and labor required to comply with new regulations will force some firms to give up parts of their business.
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They put the price of labor-force participation so high with regulations, social charges, minimum wages and so forth that businesses are reluctant to take on young, untrained workers.
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The Department of Labor today proposed "safe harbor" regulations that would allow employers to adopt certain default investments for indecisive workers without worrying that they'll be held liable if those investments go sour.
Whether you are a participant in a plan, or a plan sponsor, new Department of Labor regulations require that, perhaps for the very first time, you are about to get the information that will let you determine how good or bad your retirement plan is.
Construction costs are among the highest in the country, reflecting taxes, union labor rates and extensive regulations.
Meanwhile, the bigger firms that have hundreds of employees are stymied by infrastructure and labor regulations.
Today the EPA promulgated its -- had its finding on greenhouse gases, and the Department of Labor also unveiled -- promulgated a bunch of new workplace regulations.
But before the U.S. Department of Transportation could grant any permits to Mexican truckers, in 2002, environmental and labor groups filed a lawsuit to block implementation on the grounds that the regulations violated U.S. environmental law.
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The company is working to restructure operations there and bring the number of factories in line with demand, but has been somewhat hamstrung by byzantine labor regulations.
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Labor unions are throwing their political muscle behind lawmakers' efforts to overhaul immigration regulations, with the hope that organizing immigrant workers can swell unions' shrinking ranks.
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