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Microsoft Slowly Changes Policy on Use of Temporary Workers.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1999 by Flash, Cynthia
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 23 -- Slowly and quietly, Microsoft is changing the way it deals with its temporary employees.
The company, by implementing its sweeping "work force planning" program, is enforcing a policy that ends temporary assignments after 12 months. And it is opening up additional permanent positions that many of the long-term temps are now filling.
The move comes as part of the company's reorganization into a software service company announced in March. And it comes as Microsoft continues to fight a 7-year-old lawsuit that in May came to a head when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals awarded discounted stock to thousands of temporary employees who have worked at Microsoft for more than five months.
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