As well as guaranteeing what is still a good hourly wage, these agreements stifle innovation (through detailed work rules) and offer health-care benefits that are far more generous than those which the steel firms' white-collar workers get.

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The 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage ensures comprehensive protection of underwater cultural heritage through clear legal and operational rules, in addition to establishing a scientific work methodology in its Annex.

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But each contract must go through so many different agencies, each with its own set of rules and regulations, that work is often brought to a crawl.

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The government has relaxed the rules about how long delivery drivers can work so that they can get essential supplies of animal feed through to farms.

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