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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (22692)	5/13/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: RTev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

It is the principal that hurts i.e. Inclusion of people as permanent who have worked for 400 hrs out of a 1000 work year. It would hurt if there were very many people who fit into that less-than-40 category, but I doubt that there are. I'm sure there are at least a few hundred, but I doubt it's more than that. The real problem for Microsoft is that it has opened it up to all of the thousands who have worked there for 40 or more hours. Dimmik had restricted the class to a much smaller group. You're right that all of the folks who are "enemies" of Microsoft in the antitrust case are likely to become friends in this one. This suit has been floating around for years, but if the workers win, then all companies in the industry will be paying more.