Word: hires
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Last month Craft won her case against the network and many commentators rushed to cheer the fact that finally stations could not hire and fire on the basis of looks. But this is not why she won the case, and that should not be its legacy, Craft won because the station asked her to do things that went beyond her job. It should not be interpreted as restricting a station's ability to make personal decisions based on appearance...
Television is a business and like any other management has to do what is in the interests of its profit margin. In many cases, that means hiring and firing because of looks in search of good ratings. What makes Christine Craft different is that she had those good ratings, but still had to endure sex discrimination. Her case makes clear that actions based on appearance must be strictly limited to business. It, however, should not be interpreted to limit television stations from having the same ability to hire and fire as any other business...
Companies restrict documents, hire gumshoes, plant evergreens
...study contends that French workers have foiled the plan by refusing to take pay cuts to go with the shorter hours. That has left companies without new funds to hire additional people. Some European observers argue that such an outcome should have been expected. Says P.O. Klandermans, a social psychologist at Amsterdam's Free University: "Employees may take wage cuts to avoid layoffs, but that is maintaining existing jobs, not creating new ones. I've never heard workers say that they were willing to take home less pay to create new jobs for someone else...
...explanation has to lie with the Harvard mentality itself. Charles Sullivan, executive director of the commission, pshaws any claims that his organization inflated the costs, nothing that they recommended few actual changes, and that Harvard obviously went into the project with grand designs in mind. "You don't hire Graham Gund to build a telephone booth," Sullivan adds...