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Microsoft Escalates Controversy over Use of Temporary Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 1999 by Flash, Cynthia
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 24 -- SEATTLE -- Microsoft treasurer Greg Maffei escalated the controversy over Microsoft's use of temporary workers this week when he told a convention in Seattle the company does not hire more of the roughly 6,000 workers because they aren't good enough.
If that's the case, why does the company keep these workers for months, if not years, asked a lawyer suing Microsoft over its temporary worker policy.
"It's really extremely ironic that someone is good enough to work for Microsoft for five years, but is not good enough to be an employee," said David Stobaugh, one of the lawyers who filed a class action suit against the software maker on behalf of long-term temporary workers. "They're good enough to...
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