Mr Bush's decision to embrace voluntary, rather than mandatory, guidelines for workplace ergonomic standards, for instance, increases employers' flexibility and makes economic sense.
As health care costs head into a fourth consecutive year of double-digit increases, employers are shifting a growing share of the burden onto people who make the heaviest use of medical services.
After several consecutive years of double-digit premium increases, employer-sponsored health insurance is again coming under intense scrutiny in the U.S.
His UAW helped establish benefits now standard in employee compensation, including cost-of-living increases, employer-paid health plans, tuition-refund programs, life insurance and profit sharing. . .
6 J. Mears, Cautious growth: As IT hiring slowly increases, employers seek security, Web services, Linux and business skills.
But to the extent that technology increases employers' skill demands such that a college education is increasingly necessary to compete, programs that help disadvantaged kids get that opportunity play a role here too.
"This is a sign of increased employer militancy".
"This is a sign of increased employer militancy," said Gary Chaison, a professor of industrial relations at Clark University.
They continue to reduce worker quit rates, just as Freeman and Medoff found, laying the foundations for increased employer investment in training and high-performance work systems.
