[bluGill]

Don't forget about C: companies that propose regulations because they know they can handle them and competitors cannot.

Big companies will have no problem with these regulations. However small and medium sized companies need a bunch more busy work that needs to be done and so will avoid it.

This last is hard to measure - regulations have a cost in this form but it is hard to figure out what would have been done but isn't.

[ethbr0]

A huge point!

IMHO, the US should have much more "larger than X" laws (and clauses that enfold organized subcontractors working for larger corporations).

[bluGill]

Beware of the unintended consequences of those laws (I have no idea what they are, but beware)

[syshum]

On of the consequences of those provisions is often either

1. Companies do weird divisions to keep under the limits

2. Companies are artificially restricted in their growth as they need to add employees but are unable to, for example if the cut of was 50 employees, adding the 49th employee is easy, adding the 50th employee is $$$$$ thus it will not happen, this would mean few companies grow to 50, rather you would see several 50+ employee companies merge as the cost burden for the new 100 employee company would spread over all 100 employees, vs the regulatory cost being hit with the single employee add