Crafting a Progressive Workplace Regulatory Policy: Why Enforcement Matters

Weil, David

doi:10.2139/ssrn.960987

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Crafting a Progressive Workplace Regulatory Policy: Why Enforcement Matters

27 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2007

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David Weil

Brandeis University - The Heller School for Social Policy and Management; Harvard Kennedy School Ash Institute for Democracy

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Date Written: February 2007

Abstract

This essay sets out a progressive workplace regulatory policy that can also prove institutionally and politically tractable. I lay out a broad regulatory agenda on normative grounds and then discuss how existing federal workplace policies provide for those ends. Given this "installed base" of regulations, I focus on what regulatory strategies a new administration might draw upon to most effectively advance those goals given existing systems. Finally, I argue that such a regulatory strategy is consistent with a variety of institutional factors affecting federal policy.

Keywords: enforcement, workplace policy, regulation, labor policy

JEL Classification: J38, J18, J58, J78, K20

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Weil, David, Crafting a Progressive Workplace Regulatory Policy: Why Enforcement Matters (February 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=960987 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.960987