Our discussion of overcriminalization (Nov. 20) has got Coyote to thinking (Nov. 21) about some of the headaches involved in complying with labor and employment law:
Now, I’m not talking about chaining employees to the assembly line or even paying below the minimum wage. I am talking about $45,000 fines for not splitting the two portions of a Davis-Bacon wage out correctly on a pay stub or getting sued for not properly posting one of your required labor department posters or having a counter 1/2″ too high for ADA regulations.
Follow his links to learn about an instance in which labor regulators refused to concede that a camping business in a national forest qualified as recreational.
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Reader Ray Futrell writes in to say that he’s put in mind of Tacitus’s saying, “The more corrupt the Republic, the more the laws.”
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