The drawback of the short-time working scheme is that it prevents a broader economic restructuring.
What's more, Germany's many large blue-chip companies not only have the scale to help them avoid job cuts, they have also been helped by the German government's recent short-term working scheme, in which the state subsidizes worker wages to help firms avoid layoffs.
The government's export credit agency, the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD), will launch an Export Working Capital Scheme, a Bond Support Scheme, and will support banks offering foreign exchange hedging contracts to SMEs by sharing credit risk.
These advances, as well as a government subsidized, reduced working hour scheme, help explain the relatively modest increase in unemployment during the 2008-09 recession - the deepest since World War II - and its decrease to 6.0% in 2011.
"Having been working on the scheme for 10 years, it's a blink, " he said.
Ciaran Mundy has been working on the scheme for three years now.
We are working on a voucher scheme that will create greater support for privatisation.
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"Our trial scheme is working very well", Marta Rotes, director of Ski Andorra, told BBC News Online.
For the first five years of its existence, the effort was limited to just three employees working on a digital scheme.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the scheme was working and was making scrap dealers more aware of the trade in illegal metal.
He was a hero, until he also crossed the line and was caught in an embezzlement scheme while working undercover for the feds.
"We will continue to liaise with Ulster Bank and Financial Services Authority to ensure this redress scheme is working for affected Ulster Bank customers".
But he acknowledged that some along the preferred route would see their property values fall and announced that officials were working on a compensation scheme.
Meanwhile in England, where Defra is still working on a voluntary scheme with retailers, there's been a 7.5% rise in the number of bags given out.
He has created a health-insurance scheme, working with various local self-help groups, that covers 2.5m people for a premium of about 11 cents a month each.
They are working with the Farmwatch scheme in the Test Valley to introduce a liquid substance which can be added to fuel to "chemically tag" it.
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In Islington's case, spending cuts led to funds being targeted on core services like adult social care, and the free wi-fi scheme stopped working in March 2011.
"It is a fundamental right that a worker has contributed to a pension scheme throughout their working life, " he said.
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But Iestyn Davies, of the FSB Wales, said the voluntary scheme was already working and there were "contradictions" in the proposed legislation.
Mrs Fisher said the scheme had been working "really smoothly" so far.
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The firm was now working on a "viable scheme" with Persimmon Homes.
If even Mr. Madoff's two sons claim not to have known about the scheme, despite working at the firm for decades, how can we expect outside regulators to do better?
Mr Alexander said the government was working to bring in the scheme because people in the remotest parts of the country were hit by a "triple whammy" of high fuel costs, having to drive long distances and having poor public transport.
Meanwhile, the government has been working on its own national annuity scheme.
Unions say planned government changes to the teacher pension scheme will mean teachers working longer, paying more and receiving less when they retire.
One such scheme, known as Working Wheels, involved the setting up of a business purportedly selling second-hand cars to help wealthy clients reduce their tax liability.
Under a new government scheme, prosecutors have started working in police stations in order to help the bobbies get the paperwork right.
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