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From: TimF	9/27/2006 2:39:04 PM
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Single-parent job plan fuels divorce frenzy BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese education officials have scrapped a job cut plan that allowed single-parent teachers with children to stay in work after it prompted a rash of divorces, a Chinese newspaper said on Wednesday. The plan to cut teachers in primary and middle schools in Dandong, in northeastern Liaoning province, had resulted in 41 teachers at a single school filing for divorce in a week, the Shanghai Daily reported. "In comparison, their town divorced a total of 34 couples in the whole of 2005," the paper said. The mass divorce alerted officials, who suspended the plan and persuaded 39 of the 41 teachers to re-marry their former spouses, the paper said. The education board's plan was not the first time pragmatic Chinese employees have swapped marital vows for work. In August last year, a dozens of laid-off workers at a state-run oilfield in China's northern Hebei province filed for divorce after the company issued a policy allowing divorced, retrenched workers to regain their jobs. today.reuters.com

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