21.   A prudent employer will always have an express contractual term protecting business secrets.

22.   An irony the AEEU points out is that in Japan, employers HAVE to recognise unions by law.

23.   The employers clearly had strong reservations.

24.   No employer has a right to take the work of a man or a woman without paying them a living wage.

25.   Also, employers had an incentive to fire their workers before they accumulated too many years of service.

26.   Although Chan agrees that previous employers should be free to state their opinion, he warns that employers also have their own agendas.

27.   Although wages have not skyrocketed for everyone in the trenches, employers have had to come up with creative ways to retain employees and lure new workers.

28.   Among those, he said, employers may have trouble finding workers because job creation has been so strong.