Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What a great idea," said my father. "You'll have plenty of time to work. Why not take a year or two off and see the world." He even offered to pay for the trip. He'll probably buy me some matching luggage and hire a personal porter for me as a graduation gift...
...international union has already poured $500,000 into the Harvard effort, which an AFSCME spokesman described as a "shoestring operation for the last couple of years." The funds will enable the home-grown union to hire more staff, increase one-on-one contact with workers, distribute leaflets, and do mailings, said Phillip Sparks,a spokesman for AFSCME in Washington...
Effective immediately, USG will not hire smokers at the acoustical-products plants. This week the company will begin giving periodic physicals and pulmonary-function exams, and a Smokenders program will be started for the third of its workers who smoke. Should smokers' health profiles fail to improve -- an indication that they are sneaking cigarettes at home -- they may be fired...
Economic upheaval is to blame. First came the great inflation of the 1970s, which forced businesses to slash service to keep prices from skyrocketing. Then came deregulation, which fostered more price wars and further cutbacks. Meanwhile, service workers became increasingly difficult to hire because of labor shortages in many areas. At the same time, managers found that they could cut costs by replacing human workers with computers and self-service schemes. It all makes perfect bookkeeping sense for businesses, but the trend has left consumers without enough human faces to turn to for guidance in spending their billions of dollars...
...Manufacturers Association. "Larger companies can shift to fill a hole, but small ones cannot do that very easily. If I employ ten females and two or more get pregnant at one time, I might as well file for bankruptcy." Discrimination against women might increase. Many companies "just won't hire women in their childbearing years," says the Chamber's Attorney Lamp...