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Microsoft contract workers stage protest, weigh their options
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| Microsoft declined to comment on the protest Monday evening.
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| The contract workers acknowledged that some employees are losing their jobs,
| but they said they're nonetheless concerned about the precedent that would be
| set if they agreed to a revision in their existing contracts. A
| representative of the WashTech technology labor union, Priyanka Joshi, came
| to the protest and was planning to help the workers explore their options.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_temp_workers_stage_protest_weigh_their_options_40583952.html
Microsoft contractors to protest over pay cuts
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/163201.asp?source=rss
Contractors protest Microsoft wage cuts
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/163216.asp?source=rss
Microsoft contract workers to protest pay cuts in Redmond
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_temp_workers_plan_protest__40573582.html
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Microsoft wants severance pay back from some fired staff
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| Microsoft is trying to get severance money back from some employees it laid
| off last month.
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| In letters written to an unspecified number of laid off Microsoft workers,
| the company says that due to an administrative error the company paid them
| too much severance.
|
| "... An inadvertent administrative error occurred that resulted in an
| overpayment in severance pay by Microsoft," the letter states. "We ask that
| you repay the overpayment and sincerely apologize for any inconvenience to
| you."
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/162529.asp?source=rss
Microsoft wants refund from some laid off workers
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| Microsoft says it made an accounting error when it laid off some employees
| last month and now feels the best way to correct the error is with what will
| likely add up to a public relations blunder.
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| The software giant, which recently laid off 1,400 employees, sent letters
| (see image below) this week to some of those former workers letting them know
| that their severance payouts were a bit too "generous" and respectfully
| requested that the former employees pay back that money, according to a
| report Saturday on TechCrunch.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10169119-75.html
Microsoft wants severance pay back from some fired staff
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/162529.asp
Oops: Microsoft Asks Some Laid Off Workers To Send Back Part Of Their Severance
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/21/oops-microsoft-asks-some-laid-off-workers-to-send-back-part-of-their-severance/
Microsoft Asks For a Refund From Laid-Off Workers
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/22/2328241
Microsoft should have made deeper cuts, analysts contend
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| The unprecedented layoffs and other cutbacks announced yesterday by Microsoft
| haven't appeased Wall Street. Microsoft shares are down more than 6 percent
| since the news came out, and some analysts assert that the company needed to
| go much further.
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http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/Microsoft_should_have_made_deeper_cuts_analysts_contend38239219.html
Microsoft Flight Sim grounded by redundancies
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| On the Venturebeat blog, Dean Takahashi notes "In the past year or so,
| Microsoft has shut down or divested itself of a lot of its hit-making
| studios. It recently decided to close Ensemble Studios, maker of the Age of
| Empires strategy games, and spun out Bungie, the maker of Halo games."
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http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/microsoft-flight-sim-grounded-redundancies-44838
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