On Monday, Mr. Limato won the right to leave I.C.M. despite his contract when an arbitrator ruled that a California labor statute made parts of the agreement void.
The most delicate topic on Mr. Monti's agenda is the infamous Article 18 of the Italian labor statute of the 1970s, long a sticking point in labor talks.
A more sensible response would have been simply to provide those workers with shares in the company, but that would be an open admission of the coercive power that unions receive even under the current labor statute.
California's labor statute spells out exactly who cannot receive any tips: Neither the restaurant's owners nor its agents are permitted to take tips.
Under California's studio-friendly labor statute, employers were entitled to hold individuals to personal services contracts for up to seven years; De Havilland's contract was set to end in mid-1943.
New Mexico child-labor statutes limit children under the age of 14 to 44 hours of work in one week and eight hours in any day, unless a special permit has been granted.
"We are not certain that those laws are limited to traditional 'employment' relationships," Ms. Buzzard wrote, citing part of the state child-labor statutes that say that a child's frequent presence at a work site "shall be prima facie evidence that such child is unlawfully engaged in labor".
New Mexico frequently issues exemptions to its child-labor statutes to Boy Scout camps, Boys and Girls Clubs and similar groups to allow minor members of those groups to participate what would otherwise be considered work, Carlos Castaneda, a spokesman for the state labor department, now known as the Department of Workforce Solutions, said Tuesday.
The labor relations statute bars employers from providing "thing of value" to unions and union officials.
He added, "I'm not going to accept legislation that limits or weakens the president's well-established authorities -- authorities to exempt parts of government from federal labor-management relations statutes -- when it serves our national interest".
