Big companies do not complain much about the new job-preferment laws. Most of them would in any event be doing their best to employ and promote blacks, although perhaps not women and the disabled. Moreover, they can afford to bear the burden of red tape that the laws impose. But big companies are not the ones creating jobs. On the contrary, many of them have been restructuring and shedding labour over the past six or seven years. If new jobs were to appear, they would be created by small and medium-sized companies. Although the small are exempt from the new laws, medium-sized ones are not, and they find them onerous.
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