Health insurers denied them coverage while they were self-employed because the couple suffered from allergies and asthma.

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We particularly enjoyed dining and walking with Nicole and Walter, a couple employed in the Dutch film industry.

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State and local tax revenues would surge, and governments would start hiring back some of the workers they have had to lay off in the past couple of years, and the newly employed workers would spend more money.

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Louis Cardinals manager a couple of years ago asking him when he employed the tactic and what the benefits were.

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Still, French labor law obliges the company to keep all the workers employed, which means many of them don't work more than a couple of hours a day, while still getting full salary, a situation that appeared to enrage Mr. Taylor.

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