And almost none of the hospitals are unionized, so workers have few contractual protections to ease the transition.

Proponents of new legislation agree that contractual protection is an important source of protection for databases.

Moreover, contractual protection is a creature of state law only.

Finally, the argument has been made that contractual protection may not be optimal from the consumer s point of view.

"It depends on what the blog is," he said, "what the content is, and whether there's any contractual protection for the employee."

That is the ending of contractual protection against being kept working on a radar screen controlling traffic for more than two hours without a break.

In general, public workers have constitutional and contractual protections for their benefits that their private counterparts do not.

"We don't have any contractual protections and we're kind of used to that," he said.

Fourthly, they need investment security, in other words contractual protection and no more revisions.

Another new law creates contractual protections for buyers from "gray market" car brokers.