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...Kodytek and Tomas Lenc, two florists from southern Bohemia in the Czech Republic. Soon after their country joined the European Union last May, they tried to open two shops across the Austrian border, in the quaint medieval townlet of Gmünd and in nearby Waidhofen. They planned to hire locals, but ran into roadblocks from the very start. First, Gmünd's labor office told them bluntly that no more flower shops were needed in the area. Undeterred, they set up their stores. Authorities then took two months to register their firm - compared with three days...
...Thumann, president of the Federal Association of German Industry: "I'm very satisfied with the results. It's another step, even though reform policy is certainly not at an end." The problem is that fixing taxes and fixing roads won't address the deeper reasons German companies don't hire more. Thomas Mayer, an economist at Deutsche Bank, ticks off a list of the genuine job barriers: labor laws that prevent firing and discourage hiring; high payroll taxes that make labor expensive; and the practice of setting wages nationally rather than at the company level. Germany's trade unions have...
...Word. I hear that as President you get to hire a chef. What will your signature White House meal...
...Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself as a kind of outsider, and vowed to drag Sony out of Morita's "sentimental shadow" into rationalized daylight...
Perhaps, in an ideal world, Bush would be right. Unfortunately, in practice, faith-based programs impart an implicit bias in their messages, methods, and interaction with those they help. They cannot help it. After all, most of these groups hire employees only of their own creed (a practice which Bush supports...