GM to Temporarily Idle Two More Plants       October 29, 2008
News: General Motors has told employees at its Detroit-Hamtramck and Bowling Green, Kentucky, plants that they will have an extra down week this year.
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The Four-Day Workweek Now Wrecking Innovation at ...       October 14, 2008
Feature: Commentary: Put the four-day workweek in, and you are sending an institutional message to your salaried workers that your organization expects 40 hours rather than continuous effort until their objectives are met. (10/14/2008)
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Chrysler Asks UAW for Four 10-Hour Days       August 11, 2008
News: The proposal is similar to what some government entities are doing to reduce energy costs. They are shifting from five eight-hour days per workweek to four 10-hour days.
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In California, Flexible Schedules Are Tightly ...       July 31, 2008
Feature: Employers find that setting up compressed work schedules can be a bureaucratic minefield. While in theory the state's law promised 'workplace flexibility,' in practice it imposes rigid procedural requirements on employers, who could be ...
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Right on Schedule       May 15, 2008
Feature: Using shift-scheduling software, hospitals can reduce overhead by planning shift work more efficiently and keep nurses happy by giving them more say over their hours. (5/15/2008)
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With a Shortage of Top Talent, Senior Executives ...       March 24, 2008
News: Companies once reluctant to turn over management tasks to outsiders are coming around to what some experts say is an emerging new economic model in which managers are hired on a project basis.
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UAW Seeks Job Guarantees to End Strike at ...       March 17, 2008
News: The union is nervous that the company will move future GM work to its Mexican operations if progress is not made.
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Chrysler to Go Dark for Two Weeks in July       March 14, 2008
News: Workers will have to take vacation during the period unless they make special arrangements with the company. The move affects the majority of the company's 15,061 salaried employees and 56,517 hourly workers around the world.
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NY Fines Businesses $4 Million for Misclassified ...       February 12, 2008
News: New York state Labor Commission officials said Monday, February 11, that they have fined businesses more than $4 million for illegally classifying workers as independent contractors, but that they had only scratched the surface of an ...
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