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cases, that is quite all right; for there are few offences that justi f y any
lengthy exclusion from employment, and even fewer bosses authori zed
to take responsibilit for such an exclusion. Complaint about wrong
grading are as tical as protests about testimonials. In one instructive
borderline case the plaintif, who as a clerk in industry really count as
an industrial worker, demands retrospective compensation that he
would have been entitled to expect only as a commercial employee. He
used to look after a card register, or something of the sort. The frm
thinks he sufers from delusions of grandeur, while the Labour Court
explains that his activit is a commercial one, just like all the innumer
able commercial clerks who have to perform mechanical tasks under
the current rationalization. More and more ofen, too, victims are
washed ashore whose dismissal is connected with mergers and other
stormy events i n the upper regions. The fact that many frms really do
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fnd themselves i n difculties i s no consolation to those who have not
been involved i n the big game.
Diferent from the mass of plaintif are all those employees who
would like to be seen as such legally, but not socially: commercial
travellers,