Relatively cheap labor cost has long offered the country a competitive edge. Globalization has now sentenced the end of that growth model.

The restaurant industry is the most labor-intensive industry in the country.

In this era of globalization, corporate responsibility is no longer merely about local labor issues, pollution control, or energy efficiency. Sustainable businesses are those that are helping find global solutions to our most pressing environmental and social issues.

Labor market weakness isn't spreading from the hurricane- affected areas to other areas of the country. We are starting to see hurricane-related claims drop off, and more important for the economic outlook, jobless claims excluding the hurricane effects remain low.

This country has a very long memory. The question of reforming the labor code is now on ice for years. No politician is going to touch it.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.