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...economic slump persists, companies are becoming stingier with the severance packages they offer laid-off workers. At the same time, more employees are asking their firms to tweak the terms of their parting pay - a shot to get more as they head for the door. "The packages are smaller than they have been, and that makes the need to negotiate more critical," says employment lawyer Robin Bond, "especially since you don't know how long it's going to be until your next...
...many associates, some work is better than no work at all. The legal industry has seen its share of layoffs in recent months - according to industry website Lawshucks.com, at least 2,100 attorneys have been laid off in 2009, bringing the total to more than 3,000 since January...
...JOGGING TRACK Bill Clinton laid the quarter-mile trail in '93; in disrepair, it was paved over...
...that she would propose another order next week that would give Harvard a “mini-stimulus package”—possibly by reducing Harvard’s payments in lieu of taxes to the City—to help cover the costs of reinstating the laid-off janitors and to force the University to reconsider whether the money saved by the cuts was substantial enough to justify the lost jobs. Regardless of whether Harvard accepts the “stimulus,” Decker said, such a gesture of aid from the City would hopefully shame...
Bedardo Sola, a former subcontracted janitor who worked at Harvard, said in Spanish through a translator at the meeting that he was laid off on Mar. 13 from a job he had held for five years. His unemployment has left him without health insurance, he said, and as a result, surgery to correct his wife’s blindness will now cost...