Clarence Otis : Everyone wants to see businesses creating jobs . As CEO of a major restaurant chain , he says regulations are preventing job creation . Otis says state and local rules , combined with tax reform , push businesses to avoid hiring . The employer mandate contained in the new health care reform law , for example , forces us to change the way we have offered health care coverage to our full- and part-time workers and , together with all the other looming regulations , causes us to rethink the way we schedule the hourly work force that is at the heart of how we deliver our product to customers . Darden : Rather than hire , companies look for technology to reduce the demand for labor .
Clarence Otis : Everyone wants to see businesses creating jobs . As CEO of a major restaurant chain , he says regulations are preventing job creation . Otis says state and local rules , combined with tax reform , push businesses to avoid hiring . Darden : Rather than hire , companies look for technology to reduce the demand for labor .