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Theron's had a lot of on-the-job training. Since 1995 she has made 13 features, and she has four more in the works (including Woody Allen's next movie). Some of the films have been terrible (The Astronaut's Wife), but all in all, that's not bad for a girl who arrived in L.A. just six years ago with dreams of becoming an actress, very little dramatic training and "a couple hundred bucks in my bag," she recalls. "But I was completely fearless...
...same weeping parliamentarians who mourned Assad pere found time on Saturday to lower the minimum age for the country's ruler from 40 to 34, not coincidentally Bashar's age. But now that he's legal to rule, Bashar will still face a blistering few months of on-the-job training. Among his key tasks will be reaching out to the Syrian military, intelligence agencies and other pillars of his father's power--including the nation's 15 internal security forces. His father had begun to prepare a hand-off, in what Martha Kessler, a recently retired CIA analyst, said...
Despite the promise that lies in these concessions, there is nothing about these expansions in fringe benefits that guarantees a living wage for all Harvard's workers. Health insurance and on-the-job training are valuable benefits to workers, but they cannot account for the costs of food, clothing and shelter. Harvard must make clear whether or not the increased benefits will allow Harvard employees to live above poverty level in Cambridge. If not, then the University should adopt a minimum per-hour pay level for all workers. Perhaps such a calculation will be more than just a simple figure...
Nevertheless, we are not entirely convinced that this means a wage floor can be ignored entirely. There is nothing about the expansion of fringe benefits that precludes an increase in wages. Health insurance and on-the-job training are certainly valuable benefits to workers, but they cannot account for the costs of food, clothing and shelter...
Palladino delayed yesterday's store opening to allow for on-the-job training of new employees, but the doughnut and coffee shop will operate on the same hours as the T in the future...