Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Some members of the Harvard community are being treated unfairly," said the letter, which urged people to report casual labor abuses to the union. "At least a small number of those are facing real economic hardship. We can not look the other way without perpetuating the problem of working poverty...
While the University has agreed to address the issue of casual labor in principle, Jaeger said it has not yet made firm commitments as to how it will compel its decentralized divisions to follow its casual employment rules...
...particular, Jaeger said, the University has not yet agreed to a system for compensating casual laborers who have worked more than the maximum number of hours in the past...
Just one week after the University and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) released a joint statement on casual labor, HUCTW has issued its own open letter on the subject, calling casual labor a "critical issue for this great institution...
...letter--which was sent to HUCTW members this week and will be sent to key Harvard administrators next week--comes at a time when HUCTW is negotiating with the University to develop measures to stop abuse of the casual payroll...