[ninenot]

The "temp help" item would seem to indicate that once again, US reg costs have scored a victory over US laborers.

I'm still working on getting the PDF open; my Win "open with" dialog box does NOT include the Acrobat package, for some mysterious reason...

[optimistically_conservative]

I think it is absolutely the case that the more hostile the environment is to the employer, the more detached the employer is to his/her employees.

Detaching his employees, especially at the more hostile lower levels where union and government is most intrusive, becomes an economic factor resulting in outsourcing of labor to temps or overseas.