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Firefighters have been known to lose a two-thousand dollar paycheck in three nights of drinking and whoring in Fairbanks...
Uruguay's workers, who are used to winning paycheck increases every six months or so, violently protested against the wage decree. When the government work force joined in two strikes, Pacheco decided to make an example of traditionally lackadaisical clerks in the state-owned banks. Instead of being allowed to clock in at their jobs at noon, when their work day usually begins, they were ordered to take turns reporting to army garrisons for four hours a day of marching. Some also got trips to the army barber and showed up for their regular jobs with considerably shorter hair...
...heavy silence settled on Paris-Match. Staffers moved listlessly, speaking in low, conspiratorial whispers. An idle copy boy watched over the managing editor's office while its usual occupant, Andre Lacaze, appeared at the entrance to the building, waving an envelope. "There it is, pals, the final paycheck," he told his colleagues. "I'm all through after 20 years." Then he walked away...
...belligerent, she decided that all war work was wrong. And so the pert, blue-eyed blonde dropped out of the 2,550-strong Women's Marine Corps. Doffing her serge greens, she told her commander that she was not reporting for duty, and then refused her $223.20 monthly paycheck...
...because small loans are the ones that most often soak the poor. A Republican amendment even made loan sharking a federal crime worth a max imum 25-year prison term. The House demonstrated its greatest solicitude for consumers, however, in an amendment to guard the first $30 of any paycheck from garnishment actions, in which creditors sue employers for part of a debtor's salary. Garnishments were limited to 10% of anything over $30, and employers were barred from firing workers because of the first garnishment-a widespread practice...