With Congress set to adjourn next week for the election season, time is short to work out the details of the plan and get it passed.
Sergio Cofferati, head of Italy's biggest trade-union federation, is not dead set against part-time work and short-term contracts.
Deregulation to permit more part-time work and short-term contracts, and tax changes to reduce labour costs, have all made output more job-intensive.
Disability living allowance, however, is expected to remain separate, with the new system allowing carers to take part-time or short-term work without losing their benefits.
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Europe traditionally hasn't been a hotbed of entrepreneurship, thanks to incentives like short work weeks, ample vacation time and pervasive pension programs.
The baby-boom generation, which started to turn 60 this year, contains the largest number of people ever voluntarily to give up work in such a short time.
The team is promising a relatively short development time, thanks to OpenMobile's early work, and hopes to deliver a consumer ready build in July.
Before I get started, I just want to acknowledge some of the extraordinary people who did some extraordinary work in a very short period of time.
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This movement is certainly not for everyone, but being extremely frugal for a short time period (and investing the difference) can work for people who are young and adventurous.
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"It's not an easy thing to make work in such a short space of time, but it has a wide application and it's exactly what we talked about, " he said.
Vindication in the Herbalife short would work, but that may be a long time coming, so how about a reversal of fortune at JC Penney.
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There is no perfect time -- there's not been a time in my short time in this job where I have called the networks and said, how about now -- does this time work for the President to speak?
In other words, even for women who are meeting their responsibilities at home, they see themselves as falling short of the ideal if they let work interrupt their family time.
As October ended, 19% of metal-workers were officially out of work, and half of those left were on short time.
My grandmother had to pretend to be seeking work as a cook because skilled cooks were at that time in short supply in Britain.
The film festival showcases 47 short animated films from the artists, animators and performers who work on the long-time Children's Television Workshop program, making it both educational and entertaining.
In a time when millions of Americans are out of work, boosting our exports is a short-term imperative.
In a very short period of time social media has risen from oblivion, and is part of the lives and work of most people in the developed world.
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This is pretty much sums up how I work already, although my major deficiency is Time, of which I have been ridiculously short throughout 2012.
This time Adobe did a lot more to make sure things work, but their efforts have still fallen short.
For the first time, listed companies in Japan had to report details of their Year 2000 remedial work in the short-form annual reports that they published in late May.
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