When low-wage interns at his firm appeared poised to replace his more highly compensated co-workers, Norm observed, "I'm starting to realize the world is populated with people younger than me who have more energy... and less scruples".
This highlights the importance of understanding health worker norms in DA interventions.
Christians and other faith communities should be leaders in demanding that Apple and every other similar business change their policies that create the "Gresham's dynamic" (bad ethics drives good ethics out of the markets) that makes inhumane assaults on workers the norm in much of the world.
We do not have a data series called jobs lost to offshore outsourcing, but 23 months into the recovery, private sector jobs are running nearly seven million workers below the norm of the typical hiring cycle.
Every year, billions of them have their throats cut while they are still conscious, and PETA investigations have proved repeatedly that sadistic abuse on the part of workers is the norm, not the exception.
Although the norms are conservative, there is no provision to deploy health workers beyond the norms even where it is warranted by service needs and the health workers are available on the market.
Contradictive messages from male partners, parents, clergy, teachers, peers, media and health workers alongside social norms that condemn sex, contraceptives and pregnancy before marriage, imply that young people get mixed messages.
In Nordic countries, it is the norm for workers to be unionised.
Flatlined real wages for middle-class workers has been the norm in American life for decades, while the costs of housing, education and medicine accelerate rapidly.
A first-time entrepreneur who had left a marketing career at Sprint, he had been dissatisfied with the local dry cleaners, finding dirty facilities and rude workers to be the norm.
Health care and pensions are good, many French retire at 60 or younger, five or six weeks of vacation every summer is the norm, and workers with full-time jobs have a 35-hour week and significant protections against layoffs and firings.
