So shops are mostly empty in the mornings and idle employees sit around by open doors and windows.Food is also in short supply.
Inevitably, these cutbacks will cause auto suppliers, who now account for much of the industry, to idle employees at their own plants.
BANGKOK — In the industrial estate of Lat Krabang, a few kilometers from Bangkok's international airport, Honda workers clad in ghost white are standing around the shuttered factory, like the idle employees of a suspended space program.
If more of these expected share sales meet a Liberty Mutual-like fate, many banks will find themselves with little choice but to cut loose more of their increasingly idle employees.
At the state-owned company for irrigation, where idle employees received their first pay in two months today, a top administrator said the officials at the Ministry of Irrigation had told him he had just two months to cover his costs.
Rather than keep idle employees on the payroll, companies now lay them off and cut overtime so quickly that output per hour in the second quarter continued to rise despite almost no increase in production.
In the past couple of days, Mr. Abbas's government has also issued two threats — that it would replace the Hamas officials who were elected to municipal and village councils in the West Bank in 2005 because their terms were ending, and that it would stop sending salaries to their idle employees in Gaza, thereby increasing the economic pressure here.
- and after some highly scientific research into the matter (I talked to a couple of idle employees) an anonymous barista revealed that the orders came from on high: "We're supposed to start making the patrons feel like they are a crucial part of the beverage-making process".
After his privately owned Malden Mills burned to the ground in late 1995, Feuerstein, then 71, dipped into his own pocket to keep 1,700 idle employees on payroll for three months.
