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Shorter hours, pay cuts, part-time work and deferred pay all in the mix as companies respond to global downturn

Amidst the current round of job shedding, companies - many of which have just come out of a skills shortage - are also looking at other means of reducing labour costs during the global financial crisis, though not always in ways approved of by unions. Workplace Express today looks at downtime in the car industry; shorter hours in components manufacturing; EDS's proposed pay cuts; Medibank Private's bid to make full-time work part-time; and requests from WA companies to "do an Alcoa".