Other boards have opted recently to share some of the pain experienced by workers, including those at Lufthansa and Deutsche Telekom.

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The Bolivian migration consisted largely of experienced workers and small entrepreneurs.

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The company says it can't find enough experienced workers to fill those jobs, so it taps recent chemistry graduates who have university lab training but little or no experience at a professional lab, where quality control and consistency are critical.

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Someone coming into the field is going to be competing with a lot of experienced workers who are also looking for work.

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Who knows, there may even be an argument for mentoring as an aid to reconcile older workers to the reality of being managed by younger, probably less experienced people.

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Not only that, but since workers were simply an expense item, Circuit City decided to lay off its most experienced (and expensive) workers and hold on the most junior ones.

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The Afghan government wants more aid but even if it were forthcoming, say experienced aid workers, it might not necessarily be absorbed.

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And even in America, where the effect will be less marked, the retirement of the baby-boomers (which has just started) means that companies will lose large numbers of experienced workers over a short period.

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Experienced social workers are leaving Birmingham for other jobs and his comments are likely to speed up the exodus.

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Workers have already experienced a 2% average cut in their take-home pay, due to the expiry of the payroll tax holiday.

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