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> But they couldn’t fire most of them. The workers were state employees — employees for life — and therefore protected.
> So the executives resolved to make life so unbearable that the workers would leave, prosecutors say.
Should they have been able to fire them? I don't know. But this is something different.
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> But they couldn’t fire most of them. The workers were state employees — employees for life — and therefore protected.
> So the executives resolved to make life so unbearable that the workers would leave, prosecutors say.
Should they have been able to fire them? I don't know. But this is something different.