President Obama has long advocated the expansion of work sharing to help employers and their workers.
In the state of Rhode Island, work sharing is a well-established part of the unemployment insurance system.
This cooperation has taken many forms, from scientific and technical collaboration and work sharing to collaboration in standards setting and regulatory alignment.
The rest of the argument is that because Germany has apprenticeships and work sharing then these two things will bring down the unemployment rate elsewhere.
In states that do not, it offers a temporary Federal work sharing program to bridge the gap until the state can create a permanent program.
The new law has three major components, all of which are designed to encourage states to implement a work sharing program and promote it among their employers.
Work-Sharing: UI for workers whose employers choose work-sharing over layoffs.
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Programs in some states that allow workers whose hours have been cut to claim pro-rated UI benefits so-called short-time compensation or work sharing programs help to keep workers on the job.
In states that already have a permanent work sharing program in place, the new law provides temporary Federal reimbursement for the benefits paid to workers under the state program.
As the experience of many states including Rhode Island, and of many employers including Pilgrim has shown, work sharing can give businesses and workers added flexibility to make it through tough times.
Last fall, Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth Harris visited the Pilgrim Screw Corporation, a fastener manufacturing firm that used work sharing to avoid laying off 35 workers in their Rhode Island facility.
Interest in work sharing grew during the recent recession, but fewer than half of the states operate a work sharing program, and employers may not know about work sharing even where it is available.
The premise of work sharing is simple: If a struggling employer puts in place a work sharing plan, a worker whose hours are reduced will have some of their lost pay made up through the UI system.
Work sharing played a crucial role in Rhode Island in the recent recession: an average of over 4, 000 people per week claimed benefits under work sharing programs in the state during 2009, preventing unemployment from rising even higher.
While such systems might work for transmissions between trusted parties (such as between spies serving the same nation) who both examine the materials in private locations and subsequently want the materials to be destroyed, they do not work for sharing with untrusted parties or parties who may view the materials in public.
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There are stories of people protecting their own contacts, nothing to really gain by sharing work together.
We will take advantage of the Joint work and technology sharing is important for all sectors including the security sector.
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The Scotland Committee's work promotes the sharing of ideas and of mutual learning (including North-South and South-South) and aims at showcasing best practice at all levels.
Making revenue sharing work requires the right incentives, not a pure welfare state like Major League Baseball has, where some clubs are essentially rewarded for failure.
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Sharing his work and deconstructing it for other photographers is a key part of his art.
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She learned that both men and women were planning on equally sharing their work and home requirements.
She's been writing music for years, but was "really, really shy" about letting sharing her work with anyone.
By this time, cyber activists were sharing my work spontaneously, and I was doing the same with theirs.
No details of how the power-sharing would work seem to have been discussed.
Can the act of sharing your work help you learn new things, connect to new people and get more (and better) work?
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To make this job-sharing system work and help out the affected employees, the government pays them about sixty per cent of their lost salary.
While they get the benefits of sharing their work with the masses and the perks associated with being well known, we constantly hear celebrities complaining about invasions of their privacy.
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