Labor pains

Over at Labor Blog they discuss some lightly penalized corporate behavior. Some of these fines are ridiculously low; maybe we ought to standardize fines for death or injury to people from irresponsible corporate behavior at, say, 1 percent of revenue. Since the average corporation makes about 5 percent profit. That's a 20 percent hit to the bottom line. They would notice that, for sure. The fines for cases which do NOT involve human injury sound more reasonable. HT: American Constitution Society Blog and Julie Saltman.