And Jack Jones, from the Transport and General Workers' Union, warned that workers' wages were already suffering through cuts in overtime and short time working.
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It followed a "troubled period" in 2011 that saw half the workforce at Llantrisant being made redundant and the remainder being put on short time working.
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An American coach is also a possibility after the Olympic silver medallist spent a short time working in the gym with Roger Mayweather, uncle and trainer of Floyd Mayweather, during his recent trip to Las Vegas for the Calzaghe-Bernard Hopkins fight.
The drawback of the short-time working scheme is that it prevents a broader economic restructuring.
It makes a contribution to both the wages and training costs of staff already on short-time working.
Bosses said they had organised the short-time working to get past the recession and that it was still committed to the city.
In recent years, few solicitors' firms have avoided redundancies or moving staff to short-time working, while others have closed or merged, and Law Society of Scotland chief executive Lorna Jack warned the hard times were continuing.
As an avid reader of the late Harvey Penick's sage instruction books, I also determined to spend most of my practice time working on my short game and putting.
So I was making steady money as a model, and working short days gave me the time to get another job.
"We are working intensely under a very short time span to have a maximum amount of information to able to find the black boxes, " she said.
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Kish, an island off the Iranian coast, is a popular destination for so-called visa runs - leaving the country you are working in, for a short time, so you can get a new visa on return.
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However, he points out that this time, manufacturing companies and workers are seeking short-term working and pay freeze agreements in order to retain skilled workers, in contrast to the mass layoffs in the 1980s.
Figuring he'd spotted an institution working a big sell order with a clever computer program, Park sold the stock short every time the seller showed up.
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