Since then, Mr. Palmer says, he has been harassed by superiors and co-workers, sidelined with no work assignment, shut out of the company's computers, denied bonuses and hounded by death threats.
Which one of the over 20m American workers sidelined by the anemic recovery wouldn't rather grow at 2.5 to 3% instead of muddling along at 2% or below?
Sex workers sidelined, once more.
Peter Lee, a real estate agent and investor in Tampa, said unemployed carpenters and other construction workers sidelined by the housing bust and slowdown in new construction have found a new line of work renovating homes in the area.
The first graph below shows the median number of days workers get sidelined by specific injuries; the second graph shows the same data by occupation.
On Oct. 11, workers at Vons went on strike, and the next day the two other chains locked out their workers, meaning that 70,000 workers have been sidelined.
Tens of thousands of workers have been sidelined.
At the same time, Americans need a spare-no-expense effort to create jobs and retrain sidelined workers.
The jobless rate, 9.6 percent, has been essentially unchanged since May, and nearly 42 percent of the 14.8 million jobless workers have been sidelined for six months or more.
That measure, known as the labor participation rate, edged down to 62.9percentt last month from 63percentt, a sign that workers who had been sidelined are not being drawn back into the labor market.
That sent pickets to 859 markets in Southern and Central California and sidelined 70,000 workers.
