Business going bust? Lend out your labour

Some employees who have had their hours slashed in an attempt to avoid layoffs have received a tempting new offer from their companies: the option of working in another firm while waiting for business to get better. Such an exchange has been launched in Ardèche, France, by Inoplast, an auto equipment manufacturer facing troubling times. Some 100 of its part-time workers have been sent to Irisbus, a similar company in a neighbouring city that is experiencing a resurgence. Could this be a new way to help mitigate the unemployment crisis?

Laurent Rey, a French a caster at Inoplast, will be joining the assembly line at Irisbus for the next four months.

I'm thrilled with the programme. I will find full-time work and have decent wages. Moreover, I am learning a new skill.

I am actually in the process of training, two days of theory and two weeks on the floor, to adapt to the needs of the company.

I was a caster, and soon I will be working on the assembly line for producing bus doors.

The Inoplast programme relies on volunteerism. Those employees most affected by being limited to part-time work have priority, in particular those who work nights and who have lost their overnight premiums, and those who reside in Anonnay, where Irisbus is located, and within 14 kilometres of Saint-Désirat, where Inoplast is based.

In fact, Irisbus has had to step up the pace on a large order and must deliver 100 buses to the RATP, France's public transport system, by the end of the year instead of in 2010. Thus Irisbus is actively seeking production workers.

For its part, business at Inoplast is fairly quiet at the moment. It's an exchange that benefits both businesses: Irisbus, which pays Inoplast for its labour, gets access to an experienced work force. And with its additional income, Inoplast is able to stay above water for a few more months without having to contemplate layoffs.

The only drawback of the system is for those part-time workers who used to fill these employment gaps -- and who have now been replaced by these newly mobile labourers.

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Mama' Sing the Marsellese Please!

Submitted by LIBORIO (not verified) on Sun, 17/05/2009 - 19:13.

May 17, 2009
Business going bust? Lend out your labour 15/05/2009 /

MORE CLEAR NEITHER WATHER! The Remedy worst than the Maladie

SCIENCE FICTION? OR A CLEAR EXAMPLE OF FLESH ROBOT?

I'm thrilled with the programme. I will find full-time work and have decent wages.
Moreover, I am learning a new skill. (I'm learning to compete the with a machine)

I am actually in the process of training,
two days of theory and two weeks on the floor,
to adapt to the needs of the company. ( with the hope that with the incresed of time to
arrive to the age of retire inteligent legislation of government I only with enjoy to get
back my contribution to the company and governmente two or three years before buy my cementry
box).

I was a caster, and soon I will be working on the assembly line for producing bus doors
(I am the perfect slave, with may effort I make the dream of Julio Vernes Machines controling
Human).

MAMA' Sing the Marsellese Please!

Some employees who have had their hours slashed in an attempt to avoid layoffs
have received a tempting new offer from their companies:
the option of working in another firm while waiting for business to get better.
Such an exchange has been launched in Ardèche, France, by Inoplast,
an auto equipment manufacturer facing troubling times.
Some 100 of its part-time workers have been sent to Irisbus,
a similar company in a neighbouring city that is experiencing a resurgence.
Could this be a new way to help mitigate the unemployment crisis?

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Win-Win Solution

Submitted by Eva (not verified) on Fri, 15/05/2009 - 21:48.

Excellent way of addressing the needs of both the company and the employees in each respective area.

Hope where I live (US) they are taking notes on this very good program.

Regards---

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Win-Won Solution

Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Tue, 19/05/2009 - 01:50.

May 18, 2009

Not Wild-Wild Solution

Excellent way of addressing the needs of both the company and the employees in each respective area.

Hope where I live (US) they are taking notes on this very good program.

Perhaps, but it will be better force to retire governments bureocracy at 55 years and give
them an incentive and employ younger with less benefit. Then, government need less taxes revenuew
to pay parasites. Don'T you beside lower the age to retire to give youngest job and the older enjoy
vacation to buster economic in all sector of economy.

That is what are recomending economist with the brain on. And Peace not War

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Solution Fire Government Bourocracy around the world

Submitted by Unregistered user (not verified) on Tue, 19/05/2009 - 15:42.

AFP News Briefs List

IMF warns against complacency on world economy
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The global economy could still worsen and consumer demand is unlikely to recover as strongly as it has in the past, a senior IMF official said Tuesday.

The International Monetary Fund is concerned about "downside risks" to the economy, said the Fund's first deputy managing director John Lipsky.

"This is absolutely not the time for complacency,
Solution Fire Government Bourocracy around the world a review on the age to retirement, and cut of benefic, there is not other way.
Math don't lie

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