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...Unfortunately, seniority-based layoff policies in the teaching profession—set by law or contract in most states and heavily backed by teacher’s associations—are common but flawed practices. Those fired are most often young teachers who have missed out on tenure opportunities. Experienced teachers who take time off to pursue other projects are also penalized by the system because they lose seniority when they leave a school district. At a time when the president is calling on more Americans to enter the teaching profession, this apparent dispensability is extremely demoralizing; it makes little...
...explain this bizarre reasoning, then? The explanation is largely political. Teachers’ unions stick to seniority-based layoff policies because they prioritize job protection, even above student welfare. Teachers should be given the privilege of staying power, however, due to merit, not merely the length of time worked. School districts should certainly make every effort to retain good teachers that have worked for many years, but, if cuts need to be made, they should focus on letting go ineffective teachers instead of simply targeting new ones. If layoffs must be made, they should be done so based...
...group of concerned Harvard alumni organized protests outside of the Harvard Club of New York last Thursday, demanding that the administration save Harvard jobs. While the University has not officially announced employee layoffs, budgetary cutbacks are expected to result in job losses for workers employed through subcontractors. The protests in New York were organized in collaboration with the “No Layoffs” campaign organized by the Student Labor Action Movement on campus, according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, an active member of SLAM and an inactive Crimson editorial writer...
...Shan, the trade could not have come at a better time. Shortly after the closing, she was laid off from her job as a project manager at a large communications firm. "This was a lifesaver for me," she says of the swap. "Now that I have a layoff package and a smaller mortgage payment, it takes a lot of the pressure...
What do you tell a prospective employer about your layoff? How honest can you be? I think you can be completely honest. In fact, in this phase, if you're not, the employer is probably going to wonder. Don't lie. This is the era of the no-fault layoff. Anyone who judges you for having been laid off doesn't know what they're doing...