Fearing union opposition, the president vetoed the economic team's plan to liberalise Peru's extraordinarily rigid labour legislation.
Pointing to falling productivity, he blames rigid labour legislation and the mismanagement of public investment (where $10 billion has been wasted in the past four years, he claims, citing the botched overhaul of the railway network and Santiago's public transport).
Ways must be found to pay differential salaries in the public system, where the rigid labour legislation has meant that rural zones and small cities bear the brunt of the deficit in doctors.
Rigid labor market legislation has been identified by the World Bank and others as one of the main reasons why Spain's jobless rate has soared since the onset of the world financial crisis.
"The number of abortions in our country reaches six to eight million a year," said Valery Draganov, who proposed more rigid anti-abortion legislation in the Duma last week that was hastily withdrawn, highlighting tension on the issue.
There are lots of potential ideas out there for new systems of recognition and reward - but too often they are killed stone dead by rigid, pre-digital legislation.
Therefore, Symonds suggests, it is illogical to support an excessively rigid piece of legislation like the Labouchère Amendment that goes far beyond tackling the comparatively negligible problem of sexual corruption of boys.
The document also deemed currently-enacted No Child Left Behind legislation "too rigid, punitive, and prescriptive".
A Tea Party manifesto, called the Contract From America, even contains a rigid provision stipulating that all legislation passed by Congress should specify the precise clause in the Constitution giving Congress the power to pass such a law — an idea touted Thursday by the House Republican leadership.
This should serve as a lesson to policy implementers of health interventions that, there is always the need to ensure that legislations are less rigid to allow for effective implementation of health interventions.
Under legislation before the City Council, rigid plastics would be added to the list of items that are collected for reuse.
