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Jobs1st Job Killers The Coalition for California Jobs believes that protecting and creating jobs in California should be the top priority of policymakers. Economic growth and job creation are the keys to eliminating the state budget deficit, funding important programs like education and improving our quality of life. Unfortunately, there are numerous examples of pending legislation that will kill jobs. How jobs are killed Jobs are killed when employers layoff workers or can't afford to hire workers to provide goods and services to consumers. Workers are laid-off (or wages are reduced) if consumers do not buy goods and services from businesses, or because the cost of providing those goods or services has increased to the point where the business is not competitive. Consumers will not buy goods and services if they have less money to spend, or if the goods and services are a lesser value (higher cost/lesser quality) than alternatives in the marketplace. Lower wages and fewer jobs are the result of an employer not being successful in the marketplace when an employer is NOT competitive and/or consumers have no money to spend. Government kills jobs when it passes laws, rules and regulations that discourage investment and production, that add unnecessary cost and burdens to goods and services, or that make California employers uncompetitive. Job killer bills make employers less competitive or take resources from consumers. While there are hundreds of pieces of bad legislation pending in the capitol, there are 51 bills on the 2003 Job Killer list. These bills impose burdensome or unnecessary regulations that increase costs on businesses, create new workplace mandates, increase litigation, expand government at businesses' expense, criminalize inadvertent business error, or impose new or higher fees and taxes. Below, you will find the CMTA Jobs 1st Job Killers.
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