Many economists say this discourages corporate expansion because employers fear they will be stuck with excess labor in a recession.

Second, in some industries the employer may fear sabotage from disgruntled redundancy candidates.

During those 5 years, while out of the custody, he could not find any work because prospective employers feared the persecution by the authorities.

Even worse, if you come across as a pest during the interview phase, prospective employers may fear that you'd be just as annoying to have around the office.

Many employers had feared that the program would raise their costs for workers' health care benefits.

Hewlett-Packard has not experienced the sharp increase in costs that many employers fear.

Privately, large graduate employers fear that tuition fees will deter brighter students from less affluent backgrounds from going to university, which could in turn impact on their businesses.

For their part, drug companies and employers fear that changes in the program's scope will come at their expense.

Large employers fear that the medical savings plans would drive up their costs by siphoning off healthy employees and disrupting managed-care networks, like health maintenance organizations.

The reason has less to do with what's in this bill than with what employers fear will be in the next one.