Hostess's work rules require workers to deliver bread and cakes on separate trucks, adding additional costs.
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Ohio has an economy burdened by high taxes and work rules that impose heavy costs on employers.
Finally, the work rules prevent the Debtors from implementing alternative distribution systems into new, currently unserved markets.
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Even so, the impact of higher labour costs and more cumbersome work rules should not be underestimated.
Its non-union ones are 10% more profitable, says Mr Sorenson, mostly because of more flexible work rules.
Despite the union's concessions, however, its master contract with the car companies is chock full of cumbersome work rules.
European entrepreneurs are hampered by higher hurdles of social engineering: VAT taxes, union work rules, employee job security, etc.
These are the people who are not yet burrowed in under federal work rules and can be more easily dismissed.
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Excesses not just in pay and benefits, but also in work rules so that the membership size is ever growing.
The companies remain saddled with cumbersome contracts with the UAW that make work rules and plant procedures a constant challenge.
Obviously part of the box is determined by official limits set out in job descriptions, hierarchical arrangements, and formal work rules.
Conservatives now seem too preoccupied with tougher work rules and promoting marriage to think seriously about the next round of anti-poverty reforms.
Now he wants unions to accept concessions, such as a revised pension plan for newly hired workers and more flexible work rules.
Ridiculous union work rules that are consciously engineered to increase inefficiency and create superfluous jobs are making Hostess uncompetitive with other industry players.
Mr. Samuelsen has previously said the union could voice its displeasure by enforcing work rules that could slow down bus and train service.
The existing work rules require that, on many routes, separate trucks must deliver the bread and cake products to that single customer location.
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However, given their work rules and hiring standards, I would love to see a comparison of their IQ scores to those of the postal workers.
It brings both pilot groups under a single contract, and provides gains in compensation, work rules, job protections and retirement and other benefits, the union said.
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In addition, the CBAs contain a variety of different work rules that hamstring operations and make the CBAs uncompetitive as well as extremely difficult to administer.
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As a result, productivity at the Minnesota mines doubled with no new investment because work rules changed and the employment of skilled workers was cut in half.
Today, though, these groups are powerful enough to boost the cost of any government initiative--because often they require high salaries, costly work rules and, most important, pension benefits.
Earlier this year it agreed to change its labor practices after an outside audit found widespread breaches of work rules, including 60-hour workweeks and regarding health and safety.
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In such a reorganization, a state could propose to terminate some, all or none of its government employee union contracts and establish new compensation rates, work rules, etc.
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The Department of Labor will push forward anti-immigrant work rules.
As well as wage cuts and 1, 000 lay-offs, the mayor needs big concessions from the unions, ranging from pensions and health-care reform to changes in restrictive work rules.
Rarely did a summer pass without a teachers' strike or threat of a walkout, invariably followed by a surrender by the city, resulting in higher wages or more permissive work rules.
Once the students graduate and are hired but before they begin work provide them an extended orientation, conveying explicit expectations and particulars about promotions, work rules, evaluations, job hours, dress codes, telecommuting, etc.
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This allows them to freely replace underperforming teachers and quickly build the best teaching staff they can, with absolutely no regard to senority, union work rules, union grievance processes, or anything else.
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