Under this scheme, the number of individual working hours is reduced in an effort to avoid layoffs.

按照这项政策，减少个人工时来避免裁员。

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The third option would see everyone with sufficient means pay into a mandatory state insurance scheme; payments could be made while working, in retirement or on death.

第三种选择就是每人都必须购买政的保险计划，在工作、退休或者去世的时候支付都行。

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First, this means working out a payment scheme.

首先，这意味着拟定一套支付方案。

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The left-of-center Mr.Rudd wants the scheme to be working by July of next year.

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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.

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The drawback of the short-time working scheme is that it prevents a broader economic restructuring.

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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.

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