As for seniority, there may well be too much dead weight at the top.
In the car industry, Mitsubishi Motors wants to abolish its entire seniority-based pay structure this April.
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He instituted promotions by merit, not by seniority, a departure from the usual North Asian policy.
It doesn't take a lot of seniority to vote the way you promised to vote.
My lack of seniority has not impeded my ability to communicate in any way.
Or they could opt for a smaller pay bump and still lose some seniority rights.
Currently, bus companies are required to fill open jobs based on a citywide seniority list.
Promotions are based on seniority and on performance in a written and oral exanination.
There was also some genuine news in what Mario Draghi said on the issue of seniority.
And it would scrap promotion by seniority, making it subject instead to the passing of exams.
Along with performance-related pay has come a greater emphasis on meritocratic rather than seniority-based promotion.
Two features of corporate Japan lifetime employment and a strict seniority system have made this much harder.
In most firms, both pay and holidays also tend to go up with seniority.
We feel it benefits all pilots, no matter where you are on the seniority list.
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Not everyone believes Lieberman's claim that he'd get to keep his seniority with the Democrats.
He is thought to be 28 years old, in a culture that recognizes seniority based on age.
In some other professions he might seek a new employer, but leaving American would mean losing seniority.
Their marriage does go through a rough patch, but they pull through and graduate to companionable seniority.
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Seniority, personal connections, a reluctance to talk about individual merits or faults - all confuse the issue.
Ohio is one of 15 states where, by law, seniority rules the day when layoffs are necessary.
That 20% is divvied up at the discretion of the top partners, based on seniority and performance.
Because the Senate works by seniority and Mr Helms joined the Senate four years before Mr Lugar.
Good leaders have the opportunity to grow in seniority, to gain additional skills, and to become truly great.
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Each of you, regardless of your job title or level of seniority, is helping to advance that cause.
His seniority has won for the islands a steady stream of federal projects, including an excellent computing centre.
It is illegal in over a dozen states to lay off teachers for any reason other than seniority.
LDP's own seniority system, which regulates the struggle for power between the party's competing factions, is particularly rigid.
This is why seniority-based layoffs, such as those imposed in Chicago, are so harmful to society at large.
Questions are being asked about the logic of Israel's decision to attack a figure of Mr Mansour's seniority.
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