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Below you'll find a list of all posts from June, 2000

The Rogue or Sleaze provisions of the Employment Act

Two different organizations of developed countries, the OECD and the G-7 Group, are attacking the offshore banking industry of the …

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The Good News/Bad News of the Minimum Wages Act

Generally minimum wage legislation, such as the Minimum Standards Act that was circulated for comment in January of this year, …

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Truthfulness in the Workforce

The Employment Act dated May 2000 is an updated version of the proposed Minimum Standards Act circulated in January 2000. …

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Opposition to Agency Shop Provision

A good example of the controversies surrounding the Trade Union Act is that related to the Agency Shop (Clause 73(1)). …

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Misrepresentations in Parliament

The summer of 2000 could be the beginning of the Bahamian “year of discontent”. Old laws relative to two major …

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A National Role Model

Gary S. Becker, the Nobel Laureate in Economics, wrote in the May issue of Business Week "Egads! The Left is …

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Thought to Ponder

When the government has to decide how many pigs are to be raised or how many busses are to be run, which coal mines are to operate, or at what prices shoes are to be sold, these conditions cannot be deduced from formal principles or settled for long periods in advance. They depend inevitably on the circumstances of the moment, and, in making such decisions, it will always be necessary to balance against the other the interests of various persons and groups. In the end somebody's views will have to decide whose interests are more important; and these views must become part of the law of the land, a new distinction of rank which the coercive apparatus of government imposes upon the people.F. A. Hayek
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