美国国家公共电台 NPR Fast-Food Chains Back Away From Limits On Whom They Hire
时间：2019-01-17 作者：英语课 分类：2018年NPR美国国家公共电台7月
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Seven big fast-food chains have backed down under pressure. They've agreed to stop blocking workers from taking jobs at other restaurants in the same chain. Washington state's attorney general was threatening to sue over this. And now, the chains, including Arby's, Jimmy John's and Cinnabon, among others, will stop enforcing or using these practices across the U.S. Here's NPR's Yuki Noguchi.
YUKI NOGUCHI, BYLINE 1: For many years, fast-food franchises 3 agreed not to recruit or hire each other's workers within the same chain. These no-poach agreements, as they are known, meant a worker couldn't get better pay or move up the ladder by going to another location within the chain. Washington state's top government attorney, Bob Ferguson, says such agreements are clearly illegal.
BOB FERGUSON: These no-poach clauses, I think, are an example of a rigged system. You're a worker. You have no idea this clause exists. You haven't signed it. And yet when you try to go to another business to improve your wages, you can't do it because of this condition in a contract that you never signed.
NOGUCHI: Ferguson says the fact that the seven chains conceded bodes 4 well for workers at other fast-food chains.
FERGUSON: We have a lot more fast-food chains that we're investigating and that we expect to come to the table and sign similar deals. If they don't, we will litigate.
NOGUCHI: Princeton economist 5 Alan Krueger has written about the prevalence of no poach agreements in most franchise 2 operations, not just in fast food.
ALAN KRUEGER: I think it's a major accomplishment 6.
NOGUCHI: He says such restrictions 7 make the labor 8 market work inefficiently 9, keeping wages artificially low.
KRUEGER: I think it's very hard to come up with a sound business justification 10 for this practice other than reducing competition for workers.
NOGUCHI: Ferguson and other attorneys general say they will also seek to end the practice in other franchised 11 industries as well. Yuki Noguchi, NPR News, Washington.
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- Catering in the schools is run on a franchise basis.学校餐饮服务以特许权经营。
- The United States granted the franchise to women in 1920.美国于1920年给妇女以参政权。
- TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder. 电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Ford dealerships operated as independent franchises. 福特汽车公司的代销商都是独立的联营商。 来自辞典例句
- This bodes ill for the failure of the programme. 这是那项计划有凶兆。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- This bodes him no good. 这对他是不祥之兆。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- He cast a professional economist's eyes on the problem.他以经济学行家的眼光审视这个问题。
- He's an economist who thinks he knows all the answers.他是个经济学家，自以为什么都懂。
- The series of paintings is quite an accomplishment.这一系列的绘画真是了不起的成就。
- Money will be crucial to the accomplishment of our objectives.要实现我们的目标，钱是至关重要的。
- I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
- a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制
- We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
- He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。
- The small family farm is steeped in inefficiently and struggles just to survive. 小农场主陷于无效率的境况中，只为生存下去而苦苦挣扎。 来自辞典例句
- You can't afford to run businesses inefficiently in this day and age. 在现今，经营商店无能是不行的。 来自互联网
- There's no justification for dividing the company into smaller units. 没有理由把公司划分成小单位。
- In the young there is a justification for this feeling. 在年轻人中有这种感觉是有理由的。
- He is starting the first school himself,but subsequent ones will be franchised to use the Fujita method. 他已经自己开办了第一所学校，但是以后的学校将被特许使用富士达方法。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Driving tests for franchised bus are held on request by bus companies. 专营巴士的驾驶考试只在巴士公司要求下才举行。 来自互联网