Sharp declines in commodity prices and demand for metals have led Kazakhstan's big mining companies to cut production and send thousands of workers on leave at half-pay.
Their struggle began in early 2013, when the owners of Kazova Textiles, Ümit and Mustafa Somuncu, put all 95 workers on leave after withholding their pay for several months, blaming poor business conditions.
Today it's also tracking 150,000 workers on leave.
Two days later, Nanos suspended all work at the laboratory and put the nearly two dozen workers on leave, saying employees weren't taking security and safety rules seriously (ScienceNOW, 23 July).
Since then, the number of juvenile detention workers on leave has dropped to 6.2%.
A recruitment letter informed ambulance workers on leave of absence about the study since they did not attend the CME programme.
Although officially only facilities with qualified staff were eligible for DFF, three facilities receiving funds were managed by community health workers because the qualified health workers were on leave or awaiting replacement.
Disney has since placed an unnamed worker on "administrative leave".
She walked us through a maze of hospital corridors and waiting areas, some of them open to the sky, to a doctor who told her to poke it open with a sterile needle and squeeze the pus out, which Ricardo's mother's cousin proceeded to do, while a lab worker on maternity leave came by to show off her new baby.
Olivier Martin, head of the Mazar-i-Sharif office of the Red Cross, was in the last group of foreign workers to leave on Sept. 17.
In Beijing, many environmental organizations exist in a precarious legal limbo between recognition and proscription, and it is not uncommon for foreign workers to leave on "visa runs" at 90-day intervals if their NGOs can't get work visas.
