Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entryway system has its ups and downs. The rooms are more likely to be private and quiet, a boon if you're into a sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, casual drop-in visits to anyone above the third floor are bound to seem a little contrived. Some find the entryway setup picturesque and charming. Others are less gracious, grumbling that a social life determined by stairwell is both tiring and stifling...
...concerned with the casual payroll, living wage issue and its context," says committee chair D. Quinn Mills, who is the Weatherhead professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School. "We are looking at the casual payroll in context of the overall University payroll, so I assume the answer is yes [the committee will examine the unions...
...snap-shot" for the week of February 20 showed that out of a total of 13,113 "regular employees"--wage-earners who work more than 17.5 hours a week--only 358, or just 2.7 percent, earn less than $10 an hour. Yet, out of 1,361 "casual employees," 669 or 49 percent made less than $10 an hour...
...Casual workers are classified as those who work full-time for less than three months or less than 17.5 hours per week. They typically receive lower wages and no benefits. The snapshot did not include subcontracted workers who are brought into Harvard by outside firms...
...Essentially the numbers are bolstering our claims," said Aaron D. Bartley, a campaign organizer and first-year law school student. "There is an inordinate amount of casual labor going on. The fact that half of them are making less than $10 an hour says...