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...nice long vacation - paid, of course (it will be a cost-saver in the long run). Then sit back and see what happens. If your business output suffers and important things go undone, get that employee back. Your company clearly needs him or her. If, on the other hand, you find no discernable fall-off in business, you know what to do: Give him a raise - he's probably a member of the U.S. Senate or the head of a major financial institution. He might throw some fat contracts, or at least a great mortgage, up your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workplace Quiz: Which Employees Are Worth Keeping? | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

...staff in the immigration raid. But Agriprocessors is having a hard time keeping new arrivals on the job. Jaylani quit after one day processing turkeys. "I didn't get trained enough," he says. "It was highly dangerous equipment. I wouldn't take the chance of cutting my hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kosher Meat Plant Struggles to Recover | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...urgency of the task at hand was underscored by the news Friday that yet another financial institution - Washington Mutual of Seattle - had been taken over by the government and had most of its assets sold off to JP Morgan Chase. Even Democrats were unsettled by the urgency with which they were being called upon to act in the face of what the Bush Administration was warning is an imminent threat. "It's not like our guys are saying, 'We really want to pass this bill.' We've seen this before," noted one Democratic Capitol Hill veteran, alluding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Congress Build a Better Bailout? | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...Klan will, however, have pamphlets and membership applications on hand for any audience members who happen to share the Klansmen's views. Some examples of those views: Obama's election "could be the destruction of America," says Greene, who states categorically that he would not vote for a black candidate. Says the Emperor of the Mississippi White Knights (the group's ritual leader), who asked not to be identified: "Locally, every place that has come under black rule has declined, and has declined sharply." He cited Jackson, Miss., and Washington, D.C., as examples. "Not all black people are particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwelcome Visitors at the Ole Miss Debate: The Ku Klux Klan | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

...What Zardari said after shaking Palin's hand will likely prove a great deal less memorable. "You are more gorgeous than you are on [television]," he told Palin after she declared that she was honored to meet him. "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you," Zardari added, flashing his trademark teeth-baring smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sarah Palin Rallied Pakistan's Feminists | 9/26/2008 | See Source »

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