All Posts Tagged With: "workers compensation"
Worker Freedom in Peril
The Alliance for Worker Freedom (AWF) recently published its 2007 Index of Worker Freedom (IWF).The index ranks each of the 50 states on the basis of ten variables that affect the freedom of workers. “Freedom” is defined properly as the absence of interferences with individual worker choices. After explaining the ten variables used and identifying [...]
1Oct2008 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedStrangling the Golden State’s Golden Goose
The older industrial park just south of downtown Los Angeles wasn’t the typical spot for a California Chamber of Commerce press conference. There were no ribbons to cut, only a handful of moving boxes decorated with various bill numbers—SB 888, AB 274, SB 515. Instead of hand-shaking and excitement about a newly opened business, a [...]
1Oct2003 | Steven Greenhut | 0 comments | ContinuedOSHA at Home
About 16 million employees do some work at home for their employers, and that number is growing rapidly. Increasingly sophisticated computers, software, faxes, and modems have made telecommuting a realistic and desirable option for many employers and their workers. Late last year Richard Fairfax, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s director of compliance, issued an [...]
1Aug2000 | Charles W. Baird | 1 comment | ContinuedMichigan: Where Privatization Is Working
Twenty years after Margaret Thatcher became the first major national leader to make “privatization” a policy of government, I still hear opponents claiming “there’s no proof yet that it works.” They should pay a visit to my state, Michigan, for an eye-opening, paradigm-shifting experience. Privatization is a term with which readers of The Freeman are [...]
1Mar1998 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedSuperstar Athletes Provide Economics Lessons
Mr. Billingsley is a journalism fellow at the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture. What do former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana, L.A. Raiders running back Bo Jackson, and San Diego Chargers quarterback Dan Fouts have in common? All three are former National Football League stars and all three are multimillionaires—not [...]
1Jan1997 | K. L. Billingsley | 0 comments | Continued-
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