According to the "flexibility bill", a worker’s agreement to receive comp time instead of overtime pay is supposed to be voluntary. But anyone who has worked at a $10 an hour job understands what it is to get an offer from your employer that you can’t refuse.
In this important essay the Author deals with the structure and the functioning of the oil market and the causes of its instability, listing a series of policies that would mitigate the instability and therefore reduce the shocks to the economy.
Democrats keep telling their growing coalition to wait and the economic policies they've been hoping for will come. Unfortunately, the Obama administration's agenda can't back up that promise.
The humanitarian crisis is proliferating. We have homeless families who until a few short months ago had a home and whose members had some kind of job. Now they have fallen through society’s cracks, perhaps irreversibly.
The altenative between a minority PD's government and Berlusconi's pledge of a large coallition. New elections as solution of last resort. The different outcomes will condition the future of Democratic party, and of Italian Left.
Currently many EU countries are using the Euro crisis as a reason for deregulating labour markets. Many of the new regulations increase employee insecurity and some have been introduced with almost no parliamentary involvement.
