For many people, landing a steady job with a benign employer is not the best they hope for but an almost impossible dream.
Maybe, just maybe, people should be encouraged to believe that landing a steady job with a benign employer isn't always the best they can hope for in life, and that having as many irons in the fire as they can might be much better for the old work-life balance.
These days, retirement scams range from the out and out fraud where scammers intentionally separate seniors from their capital to the more benign cases such as employers misusing or squandering the assets in a 401(k) plan.
Epstein argues that such religious protections are benign when, "there are thousands of employers and landlords, and dozens of vendors that are eager to cater to the interests of gay and lesbian couples".
Forest Whitaker, who plays Cecil as an adult, wears his own face as an impassive, benign mask, gazing kindly and patiently at employers who cannot fathom the pain behind it.
Schwartz noted that there was a shift of responsibilities from employer to employee in this seemingly benign transfer of choice: "When the employer is providing only a few routes to retirement security, it seems important to take responsibility for the quality of those routes.
Slaughterhouses are harsh and dangerous places to work, said the report, and illegal immigrants, who form a large chunk of the workforce, find it hard to defy abusive employers.Mr Queiroz takes a more benign view.
Foreign workers on residence permits must be "sponsored" – a benign-sounding word which in practice means they are tied to one employer.
WASHINGTON — Private sector employers hired the fewest workers in six months in October while tepid domestic demand kept inflation benign last month, suggesting the economy was still in need of stimulus from the Federal Reserve.
The contract says so much because the employer in question was not some crook but the Queen – whom everyone in authority assures us is a benign sovereign who cares for every one of her subjects.
But health economists have also pointed to less benign sources of health care inflation, including excessive malpractice penalties and a number of other health industry inefficiencies that raise employer health insurance costs without creating commensurate value for employees.
