Travails of French employers under the Code du Travail — though it’s not as if America doesn’t have plenty of firms that follow the same strategy of keeping head counts below a certain regulatory-trigger threshold. [Business Week]
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by Walter Olson on May 17, 2012
Travails of French employers under the Code du Travail — though it’s not as if America doesn’t have plenty of firms that follow the same strategy of keeping head counts below a certain regulatory-trigger threshold. [Business Week]
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This type of hyper-regulation is worse in Spain.
It is said that the last thing on earth a Spanish company wants to do is to hire a Spaniard.
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