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...longer. Starting in early November, four of the five factories abruptly informed their workers that they were switching to a three-day week. Then the layoffs started. The cast-iron foundry, which pays the best wages, cut 80 of its 1,200 workers, and managers announced that they might have to fire up to 600 more. The cable factory - which just this year started up a new production line - laid off 40 people, and cut pay for those who remained by 15%. At least they're being paid: the machinery factory nearby is two months in arrears. "People woke...
...wrestled very aggressively and very intelligently,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss explained. “He’s one of the hardest workers on the team, if not the hardest worker and he’s just elevated his game...
...incorporate work experience into every study abroad program. Working in a local shop, school, or office would provide a good context for students to make friends with locals. In a workplace there is plenty of material to sympathize with and talk about with one’s co-workers. Through these relationships, students could learn about culture in a more individual way and make sense of the numerous small facets of life they observe. You may observe that most of the town lives in standard-looking, three-room houses, but until you try to help someone decide where they?...
...absorb and appreciate them. While studying, you are free to maintain culturally pluralistic viewpoints; everything is different but good in its own way. There are few consequences to opting out of culture wars, because in the end the most that will ever be at stake is a grade. A worker cannot adopt this bystander perspective. Workers let down other people when they fail at their work. Cultural differences stop being endearing and start being frustrating when they prevent one’s own success in another society. These clashes are necessary to help one understand another people?...
...issue is Republic's compliance with federal government guidelines called the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (better known as WARN), an act which requires companies to give employees at least 60 days' notice before closing a plant or initiating mass layoffs. WARN also requires companies to fully compensate workers with all earned wages and vacation time. In a statement issued late Monday, Republic officials attributed the company's difficulties to the decline in the home construction market, which saw the company's sales plummet by 80%. Then it shifted blame to its creditor, Bank of America, which Republic said...