in india for instance factories employing more than employees are required to gain permission from the ministry of labour before making any dismissals figures from the ministry of labour s annual report show that in only firms were given permission to dismiss a total of workers despite this job destruction rates in large manufacturing firms are relatively high suggesting that many enterprises are able to evade this requirement venn a survey of judges labour inspectors employment centres employer organisations and trade unions in russia shows also that labour law enforcement is seriously lacking almost of respondents think that nonobservance of labour law is a serious or very accute problem with hiring contracts dismissal pay and working time being the areas of labour law most frequently violated gimpelson et al