11.   In the past, it might have been easy to write a workplace rule that said theft of widgets off the assembly line was a fireable offense.

12.   Kentucky Sen. Wendell Ford has asked OSHA to reopen hearings on proposed workplace rules involving secondhand smoke.

13.   Little notice has been paid to the decision of the House this year finally to live by the workplace rules it has enacted for everyone else.

14.   Other concessions to employees created by the tight labor market include bonuses, discounts, flexibility on hours and workplace rules and the conversion of part-time jobs to full-time.

15.   Recently, snack association members have come to criticize Clinton-era workplace safety rules as cumbersome and expensive.

16.   Republicans had attached a provision to a labor spending bill, blocking the Occupational Safety and Health Administration from publishing the new workplace safety rule.

17.   Shattering any illusion of bipartisanship, Senate Republicans moved toward nullifying a workplace safety rule that was one of the final acts of the Clinton administration.

18.   She diplomatically refused to be pinned down on some thorny issues, including workplace safety rules and the minimum wage.

19.   The disdain for the trappings of wealth and power, which among other things restricts executive pay and mandates extensive workplace rules, meets surprisingly little opposition from business.

20.   The partisan battle over new workplace ergonomic rules could grow more heated this week after the release of a long-awaited study by the National Academy of Sciences.