Employers can look forward to easier compliance requirements, longer work hours, greater flexibility in laying workers off, and enhanced authority over them As policymakers try to work out ways to keep businesses afloat in the covid crisis, some states have ventured where governments seldom go.
They have relaxed labour laws to help businesses survive. Employers can look forward to easier compliance requirements, longer work hours, greater flexibility in laying workers off, and enhanced authority over them.
Such reforms are best done when an economy is in a boom phase. Allowing firms to let go of workers freely, for example, encourages recruitment.