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...Back to Work It was fun while it lasted, but the clock's being turned back on the 35-hour workweek. Pushed by labor unions in Germany and France who hoped it would create jobs, the measure instead jacked up the cost of doing business. Siemens just negotiated a return to a 40-hour week for the 4,000 workers at its two phone plants in Germany. Philips is discussing increasing working hours at its Hamburg semiconductor plant as part of a cost-cutting plan. Automakers DaimlerChrysler and Opel, the German arm of General Motors, and railroad firm Deutsche Bahn...
Additionally, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., the ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Sen. Judd Gregg, R-NH, the committee chair, both oppose redistributing federal aid, said Kennedy spokesperson Jim Manley...
...moment the building was evacuated, TIME was mid-way through a meeting in the convention center with a U.S. Army civil affairs officer, Major Martha Boyd, who works on projects attached to Iraq's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs. Her telephone rang with an urgent call from a local official in Baqubah, telling her that a ministry employment office had been besieged by insurgents, who took control for several hours of the government's main building, known in the city as the Blue Dome. "They have taken it over," Boyd said...
...DIED. JACEK KURON, 70, chain-smoking Polish academic who helped topple his country's communist regime; in Warsaw. As a co-founder of the Committee to Assist Workers (KOR), he helped bring Polish intellectuals into future President Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement. In 1989 he became Labor Minister in Poland's first democratic government (whose welfare payments were popularly dubbed "Kuron's Money"), but his 1995 bid for the presidency foundered. Upon Kuron's death, Walesa said: "There would have been no success or victory without...
...outcry over U.S. corporations' hiring white-collar labor abroad grows ever louder, an expanding body of research and analysis suggests that a job gained overseas isn't necessarily a job lost at home. According to a study by Matthew Slaughter, an associate professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, during the decade ending in 2001, U.S. firms hired nearly 3 million workers abroad, up 42%. At the same time, companies also expanded their U.S. work forces by almost 5.5 million, or 31%. Often, "as firms expand or sell in foreign markets, they have to hire people...