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information írom a auapect'a vorkplace only vhen there is sufficient reason to auspect that a crime has been committed, and if the success of the inve8tigation demonstrably varrants auch a requeat. The organ conducting the investigation must inform the employer of the inveatigation'a outcome.

The employee concerned must be given access to the information.- The Labor Code must clearly State that an outside agency may nőt instruct the employer to fire an employee or to piacé hím at a disadvantage in somé other vay. Both the suggestion and the implementetion of such measures should constitute criminal offenses. The providing of information vithout the employee's knovledge or against bis vili should likevise be a criminal offense. If they are necessary, the reports on morálé prepared fór the party and trade-union apparatuses should be public.- Labor discipline, and as a rule the efficiency of labor are a part of the relationship betveen employer and employee, and nőt the concern of the authorities. Official bans on leaving one's vorkplace, and police checks of persons in public places during vorking hours are illegal. (They are alsó ineffective and ridiculous; a sustained improvement of labor productivity can be achieved only by economic means.)- Let there be an end to ministerial decrees and instructions on vorking condition and vages in individual industries. Official restrictions on vage bargaining cannot be reconciled vith the business sphere's independence.

The State's business organizations must be just as free as the priváté employees in deciding vhom to hire and on vhat terms. The State's only concern should be to set minimum vages, and to prescribe hov the vage level has to be adjusted to a rise in the price level.

3.2 Self-Management at the Workplace

One of the second economic reform's main planks has been the dismantling of the artificial barriers to competition betveen the different forms of ovnerEhip. The State must nőt squeeze the priváté sector's businesses vith legal restrictions on the size of tbeir vork force, the scope of their activity, their access to credit, tbeir right to do business and engage in foreign trade, and vith special taxes. And priváté individuals should have the same opportunity to acquire and sell the shares of State enterprises as the economy's State and cooperative organizations have (except in the sphere of public Utilities, energy-industry investment projects, etc. operating outside the markét sphere, vhere a limit might be set on the proportion of shares ovned by priváté Capital).

It is economically varranted to give the different typeE of ovners of Capital equal opportunity to compete, because this vould clearly improve the flexibility and efficiency of the enterprises' operations. Bút the social consequences vould be mixed.- The dravback is that the differences in terms of vealth vould viden, and a eláss vith outstanding matériái advantages vould emerge, one that could maintain its influence from generation to generation.

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