Here in Brazil a stupid law was made that if you have more than 1000 employees you must have 5% of your workforce being impaired/disabled people.
The problem is that for some jobs that is almost impossible (for example, Call Center... you need someone that is not retarded, not blind, not deaf, not quadriplegic, leaving you with paraplegics, but paraplegics, specially those willing to venture shit sidewalks, are nowhere near 5% of the population).
So we have lots of companies with 999 employees. When someone want to expand their company, they instead create a new company (with more 999 employees), and have them both work as contractor to something else or something like that.
The problem is that for some jobs that is almost impossible (for example, Call Center... you need someone that is not retarded, not blind, not deaf, not quadriplegic, leaving you with paraplegics, but paraplegics, specially those willing to venture shit sidewalks, are nowhere near 5% of the population).
So we have lots of companies with 999 employees. When someone want to expand their company, they instead create a new company (with more 999 employees), and have them both work as contractor to something else or something like that.