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Must be disabled or you pay the fine. john: 51st, 7% of payroll must be handicapped. >> 7% must qualify as disabled. rates of disability are pretty high. john: 101 employees, more rules. spain has reformed the stupid work rules that they no longer have to pay 42 months severance pay now it is just 24 months. that is still two years. >> if they turn out badly you will turn up and know them they show them two years. >> having 350,000 under severance pay but now just 200,000.

They dont get that in european countries where people are rioting. dont they realize it is a reason companies dont want to hire? no they dont get that. wall street journal reporter who reports on the work rules and she joins us from london. >> for starters they have the right and protection to gameful unemployment. so the minimum guaranteed annual vacation here in europe not including national holidays is 20 days of paid vacation a year not including national holidays weekend additional time off...

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In european countries they write about high unemployment. those beloved worker protections are the reason they dont higher. they dont get that says our next guest on "wall street journal" reporter who reports on in europe and their work rules. from london, what do they get that we dont? >> european workers have the right to and protection of gainful unemployment. the minimum guaranteed staycation is 20 days paid not including weekend, additional time off , holidays. at france it starts at 25 per...

Sworn into office, he took a baton in which an economy was shrinking at the highest rate since the great depression, 800,000 americans were losing their johns. today, theres over 4 million private sector jobs that were created on his watch, more on his watch in the first term than all of under two terms of george bush. and yes it is not moving fast enough but i do believe the american people dont want to go back to the very policies that created the economic slowdown. >> let me ask you on one of...

Know the unions birthplace was in wisconsin? >> they had sweetheart deals and control of work rules and finally a governor stood up and said stop in the state thats so progressive, thats the birth of the public sector unions was wisconsin in 1959. and this is the beginning of their decline. he stood up and they got whooped. >> they get whooped. meanwhile, a lot of people are looking forward to november. ok, what as we look at the tea leaves for the residual tea leaves for last night, what can we...

Worked longer than 8 hour days. which brings me to my final point. to use extortions to excuse apple and the rest of electronic manufacturers for the conditions in china that make their products. forget daisy even exists. the fact remains incredibly harsh. workers have essentially no rights and violations are comment. theres ample documentation of underage workers, though they are quite a bit rare. theres ample documentation for unsafe working conditions. a chemical plant explosion just last mon...

Jobs are going to muncie, indiana. >> why? because of this new thing that just passed? >> in large part, yes. thats exactly right. is this the start of a flood? you make your state more attractive to manufacturers? you dont keep unions out but restrict their activities and pull in the jobs. thats the theory. thats happening now. those canadian jobs will almost certainly land up in muncie, indiana, right to work state. >> why are they closing the plant in canada? >> they could not come to an agre...

>> chris: you say this is not about the unions. this is about balancing the budget but the opposition says this is about union busting. so lets take a look at what is in your plan. because beyond making public workers pay more for benefits. it would allow unions to negotiate only over wages, not benefits or work rules. state would no longer collect union dues and unions would have to win an election every year to keep representing workers. isnt that union busting? >> no, absolutely not. our beli...