For instance, Ohio's office of collective bargaining estimates that replacing statutory step pay increases with merit pay will save the state $75 million a year and local governments $393 million a year.
It eliminates statutory schedules and steps that automatically increase salaries year by year, and it bars seniority, by itself, from determining who is to be laid off.
"Ofcom is empowered by statute and has been able to interpret those statutory powers to step into a vacuum created by the arrival and departure of four culture secretaries in as many years and a department that lacks firepower and capability".
Mr Vaz added: "It is worrying that police and crime commissioners seem able to side-step the statutory process for dismissing a chief constable.
Keith Vaz, the chairman of the committee, said: "It is worrying that police and crime commissioners seem able to side-step the statutory process for dismissing a chief constable.
They pointed out that Mr Johnston had been elected by less than eight per cent of voters in Gwent and "had managed to side-step the statutory arrangements for local scrutiny of his decision to sack the chief constable".
When, in 1933, a young dancer with Monte Carlo's Ballets Russes was found to be under the statutory age of twelve, Maria stepped in.
If a girl under 16 gives birth and will not identify the father, a new Mississippi law — most likely the first of its kind in the country — says the authorities must collect umbilical cord blood and run DNA tests to prove paternity as a step toward prosecuting statutory rape cases.
Mr Pickles said: "With clearly documented failures by the council on so many levels, the rare step of a statutory inspection is in the public interest.
"The first step in the statutory removal process, after a supervisor receives information that a registered voter has been convicted of a felony, is for the supervisor to send notice to the voter, who then has the ability to respond to the allegation that he has become ineligible," she said.
