All the Asians I come into contact with seem to be hard workers and are very smart.
Its activists are hard workers, and they care little for the procedural niceties of conventional party politics.
Robinson developed a 25-question test to distinguish workaholics from hard workers.
"They are hard workers and obedient employees, " Zeng Xiangbiao, a shoe factory owner in Dongguan, told a Chinese reporter in a familiar refrain on immigrant labor.
Moreover, in most states you can require employees to work overtime, even weekends and holidays, provided that you pay your non-exempt employees the appropriate overtime wages. (Employees who are exempt as professionals, executives, administrators, and outside salespersons are not entitled to overtime compensation.) Weed out your unproductive employees and reward your hard workers with overtime pay when necessary.
For example, strict employment-protection laws make it hard for workers who lose their jobs to find new ones.
Another worry is stifling bureaucracy and regulation, especially laws that make it hard to sack workers.
Hard-pressed workers are feeling grouchy: workforce surveys report record levels of job dissatisfaction.
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South African labour laws make it hard to fire workers, which deters companies from hiring them in the first place.
One sign of greater labour-market flexibility is that companies are bypassing stringent job-protection laws that make it hard to fire workers.
But it combines sensible ideas from the political right (greater personal responsibility for financing unemployment) and left (more help for hard-hit workers).
The snag is that unprofitable companies, which should have been squeezed out by competition, have remained alive because it is so hard to fire workers.
Workers are hard to come by and the cost of living is high.
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On a recent day, hard-hat construction workers were inspecting the Art Deco and Belle Epoque buildings, which are classified as historical monuments.
In recent months, he has held endorsement news conferences with them, ensuring pictures of himself surrounding by union workers in hard hats.
But no matter how hard officials or aid workers try to inject some Easter spirit into the day, it remains bitter for many.
Not only is policymaking absent and reformism on the defensive but the global slump is hitting Japanese industry particularly hard, and foreign workers foremost.
It's a source of deep pride for the generations of American workers whose hard work and imagination led to some of the finest cars the world has ever known.
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Construction firms are finding it hard to hire the workers they need to finish the apartments that the property companies have already paid for, using money their customers have already borrowed from abroad.
It will be hard to replace union workers.
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Also, some companies fear that it's too hard to fire French workers when things get tough and are instead eyeing countries like Spain, which has recently overhauled its labor rules and can offer some of the same advantages as France.
The penalties associated with part-time work in the U.S. are actually seven times higher as they are in Sweden and the UK, and this affects workers across the economic spectrum, but we see low-wage workers especially hard hit with little if no benefits and with pretty much no with documented wage penalties.
Meanwhile, the table, prepared for forbes by Watson Wyatt senior consultant Alan Glickstein, shows how workers of a certain age and job tenure fare if their plan is hard frozen, meaning that even senior workers earn no additional benefits.
Botswana's school-leavers are, on average, more literate and numerate than South Africa's, so workers are not hard to train.
The private-sector soap companies and the government officials and health workers found it hard to understand each other at first.
It is hitting white-collar workers just as hard, and in some cases, when it comes to middle management it's actually hitting them harder.
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When Egyptian journalists pressed Mr. Shafiq's media representatives for hard numbers, the campaign workers demurred, insisting that the official results would vindicate their claims.
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