The Excuse Factory: How Today's Employment Laws Promote Mediocrity in the Workplace

Abstract: The legal and legislative systems have run amok, protecting incompetent and dangerous employees from discipline and empowering them to wreak havoc in the workplace. Featured on KFYI.

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Title: The Excuse Factory: How Today's Employment Laws Promote Mediocrity in the Workplace Author: Walter K. Olson Publisher: Free Press Date Published: March 1997 ISBN: 0684827328 LOCN: KF3457.O44 1997 Dewey: 344.7301 21 Pages: 378

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Olson, Walter K.
Title:         The excuse factory : how employment law is
                  paralyzing the American workplace / Walter Olson.
Published:     New York : Martin Kessler Books, Free Press,
                  c1997.
Description:   378 p. ; 25 cm.
LC Call No.:   KF3457.O44 1997
Dewey No.:     344.7301 21
ISBN:          0684827328
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-367)
                  and index.
Subjects:      Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
               Discrimination in employment -- Law and
                  legislation -- United States.
               Industrial relations -- United States -- Case
                  studies.
               Labor productivity -- United States -- Case
                  studies.
Control No.:   97007114 

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