$100,000 pay cut = one year guarantee of your job
From the Chicago Tribune:
What do you call a young lawyer working for a premier Chicago law firm who is suddenly asked to take at least a $100,000 pay cut while being shuffled out of the office? The word “lucky” might not come to mind.
Mayer Brown is paying some of its associates to work in-house at [...]
Best places to avoid the recession in the US
The job loss numbers are just staggering. Non-farm payroll employment fell sharply (-533,000) in November, and the unemployment rate rose from 6.5 to 6.7 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported. November’s drop in payroll employment followed declines of 403,000 in September and 320,000 in October, as revised. Job [...]
