Word: worker
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...ideal election, Pearl said he wishes Dukakis would venture, "If being a liberal means being a champion of worker rights, being a champion of family rights, being a champion of children's rights, and government acting as a catalyst to help people, then dammit, I'm a liberal...
Until recently, companies did not have to be too concerned about the needs of these new employees. If a woman wanted to take time off to have a baby or reduce her hours to spend more time with a child, the employer could easily fill her slot with another worker. During the 1970s, the U.S. work force increased by an average of 3 million people a year. But in the next decade, as the baby bust -- the smaller generation behind the huge baby boom -- comes of age, the labor force will grow more slowly than at any other time since...
Measuring the costs of such conflicts is difficult, but some researchers have tried. Analysts examining employee turnover typically estimate that replacing a worker can cost the equivalent of a year's salary or more in training expenses and lost productivity. Such outlays are rising rapidly, since women, who are more likely than men to have to leave their jobs, make up an increasingly large part of the work force and are holding more high- salaried managerial posts than ever before. Says Frank Skinner, president of the Southern Bell telephone company: "No employee who has to leave a sick child...
...three commissioners are chosen by the governor for three-year stints, and appointments are staggered so there is a new commissioner each May. Although commissioners are traditionally former attorneys, they sometimes come from different backgrounds. In fact, the current chairman of the commission is a social worker...
...average wage of a clerical worker at Harvard is $1000 less than the average city worker in Boston," Rondeau told the 20 students at the first meeting of the committee for Economic Change...