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A blast of Arctic air moved into Colorado, bringing freezing temperatures and heavy snow to the region on Friday, January 23.

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Atmosphere at Paris courthouse at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Atmosphere at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Lawyer of the civil parties Slim Ben Achour at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Thomas Samule from Federation Nationale des Maison des Potes at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

View of Paris courthouse at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Witness journalist Zinedine Boudaoud at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Witness journalist Zinedine Boudaoud and former trainee, whistleblower Gerald Roffat at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Policemen at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Thomas Samule from Federation Nationale des Maison des Potes at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Lawyer of the civil parties Ngary Ba at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Thomas Samule from Federation Nationale des Maison des Potes at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Lawyer of the civil parties Slim Ben Achour at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Opening of Adecco Trial - Paris

Lawyer of the civil parties Ngary Ba at opening of Adecco Trial in Paris, on September 28, 2023, after a 21-year investigation, the trial for illegal filing and racial discrimination of Adecco, the world’s second-largest temp company. Photo by Pierrick Villette/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Mazda settles employment suit

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Lawyers for 15 former temporary employees of Mazda Motor Corp. smile during a press conference in Hiroshima, western Japan, on July 22, 2014, after the automaker and the plaintiffs reached a settlement in the Hiroshima High Court in a lawsuit over Mazda's practice of denying workers regular employee status after long services as temp staff. The 15 former temp workers will each receive an undisclosed sum from Mazda, but will not return to the car company.

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Temp housing communities hope to stay united

SENDAI, Japan - Residents take part in a workshop at a meeting place of Asutonagamachi temporary housing complex in Sendai on Jan. 27, 2013 to discuss the ideal image for post-disaster public housing.

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Temp housing communities hope to stay united

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Evacuees from Fukushima Prefecture's Tomioka gather at an assembly hall of a temporary housing complex in the prefectural city of Koriyama on Feb. 25, 2013.

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Ofunato city hires temp staff to clear rubble

SENDAI, Japan - People affected by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami work to clear debris in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, on April 22, 2011. The city government has temporarily hired around 110 people for cleanup work in the disaster-stricken city to provide jobs and incomes.

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Easy-to-build temp housing

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A sample easy-to-build temporary housing unit is brought to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. Inside the unit is a kitchen and bunk bed. Yamaguchi prefectural assemblyman Seiji Okamura, who led a project to develop such housing, said four adults would take only about an hour to set up a unit. Many people lost their homes in the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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Easy-to-build temp housing

ISHINOMAKI, Japan - A sample easy-to-build temporary housing unit is brought to Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 27, 2011. Yamaguchi prefectural assemblyman Seiji Okamura, who led a project to develop such housing, said four adults would take only about an hour to set up a unit. Many people lost their homes in the March 11 quake and tsunami.

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 plant workers with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police officers examine a car driven by Toshiaki Hikiji at Hiroshima-Minami Police Station in Hiroshima on June 22, 2010, after Hikiji allegedly hit 11 employees at Mazda Motor Corp.'s plant in the city, killing one of them. Hikiji told police he had been fired in April by Mazda as a temporary worker.

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police officers examine a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima City where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company.

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 plant workers with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A car driven by Toshiaki Hikiji is transferred to Hiroshima-Minami Police Station in Hiroshima on June 22, 2010, after Hikiji allegedly hit 11 employees at Mazda Motor Corp.'s plant in the city, killing one of them. Hikiji told police he had been fired in April by Mazda as a temporary worker.

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Reporters gather at a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company.

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police officers examine a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company.

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300 jobless temp workers move again from public shelters

TOKYO, Japan - Temporary workers walk to get onto a bus in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 12 as permission for them to stay at a public shelter there expired the same day. About 300 temporary workers who had lost their jobs and places to live amid the ongoing economic slump began moving again from four shelters in Tokyo to another temporary facility.

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2 cab drivers assaulted in Osaka

OSAKA, Japan - Police investigators examine the taxi of a driver who was assaulted by an unidentified man on a street in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, in the early morning of Jan. 6. Another taxi driver was attacked by a purported temp worker, who was later arrested, in nearby Neyagawa the same day. The incidents followed two recent fatal taxi holdups in the prefecture.

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4 laid-off workers at Isuzu Motors sue to reinstate jobs

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Kazunori Nakatani (C) and other former workers dismissed from a factory of Isuzu Motors Ltd. speak at a press conference in Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 6 after filing with the Utsunomiya District Court for the reinstatement of their contracts, which were terminated before their terms expired by three temp staff agencies.

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Temp workers given shelter, appeal for aid for unemployed

TOKYO, Japan - Temporary workers who have lost their jobs and places to live in the current economic slump and other homeless workers line up to apply for new shelters offered by the government in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Jan. 5 after their ''tent village'' in Tokyo's Hibiya Park was closed.

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people form a long line to get a free meal at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in Tokyo to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers.

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Population of tent village for homeless tops 250

TOKYO, Japan - Homeless people line up to get a free lunch at Tokyo's Hibiya Park on Jan. 2. The ''year-crossing temp worker village'' was launched in Hibiya Park in front of the Imperial Hotel, one of the country's most luxurious hotels, to provide free food and shelter for homeless people including laid-off temporary workers who have been forced to leave accommodation provided by their employers.

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Firms need plans to rehire discharged temp workers: Ohashi

TOKYO, Japan - Yoji Ohashi, chairman of the committee on management and labor policy in the Japan Business Federation known as Nippon Keidanren, speaks in a press interview in Tokyo on Dec. 25.

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Mazda cutback sends temps on the street, adds to local economic gloom

HIROSHIMA, Japan - A former temp staffer with Mazda Motor Corp. watches TV in at home after his employment contract was terminated by the company on Dec. 5 even though it was valid until February 2009.

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Police raid temp staff agency Goodwill, others over illegal dispatch

TOKYO, Japan - Police on Jan. 31 raided major temp staff agency Goodwill Inc. (in photo), along with cargo handling company Towa Lease and several other locations, suspecting they were repeatedly engaged in illegal subleasing of staff sent by the manpower company.

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BTM temp staffer found embezzling 900 mil. yen, FSA issues warning

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the head office of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. The Financial Services Agency said on Aug. 26 it has issued the bank a business improvement order after finding a temporary worker there embezzled more than 900 million yen over more than 10 years.

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Mr. Tomohiro Kato

AOMORI, Japan - An undated photo of Tomohiro Kato, a suspect in Sunday's stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district, taken from his high school album. The 25-year-old temp staf worker at an auto component factory in Shizuoka Prefecture has admitted to hitting pedestrians with a truck and stabbing passersby with a knife at around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday in broad daylight on a street in Tokyo's busy Akihabara electronics district, leaving seven dead and 10 others injured. (Kyodo)

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Firms need plans to rehire discharged temp workers: Ohashi

TOKYO, Japan - Yoji Ohashi, chairman of the committee on management and labor policy in the Japan Business Federation known as Nippon Keidanren, speaks in a press interview in Tokyo on Dec. 25. (Kyodo)

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Toshiba to cut 4,500 temp jobs by end of March as it faces loss

TOKYO, Japan - Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida bows at the end of a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Jan. 29. The struggling Japanese electronics giant said it will lay off 4,500 temporary workers in its loss-making semiconductor and liquid crystal display businesses and it expects to incur group net and operating losses of 280 billion yen each for fiscal 2008 through March, its first red-ink figures in seven years. (Kyodo)

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3 AUM Shinrikyo members arrested over temp business

TOKYO, Japan - Shigeru Sugiura, a leader of Aleph, formerly the AUM Shinrikyo cult, was arrested in Tokyo on June 16, along with two other members, for allegedly sending group members to work at companies as temp staff without a government license to do so. (Kyodo)

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Beowulf (2007)

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Diet approves bill to remove temp workers' term limit

The House of Representatives in Tokyo passes into law Sept. 11, 2015, a bill to allow companies to use temp staff indefinitely if they switch them every three years. The bill, due to take effect on Sept. 30, has drawn criticism it would confine workers to unstable jobs throughout their lives. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Upper house passes bill to revise temp worker law

Japan's House of Councillors in Tokyo passes a bill on Sept. 9, 2015, to scrap a three-year time limit on the employment of temporary workers. The bill will be sent back to the lower house for a revote as the upper chamber changed its enforcement date to Sept. 30 from Sept. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lower house passes temp workers bill to remove term limits

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (C in 2nd row) applauds during a plenary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo on June 19, 2015, as the lower house approves a bill to enable companies to use dispatched workers indefinitely if they change the workers every three years, defying protests by the opposition camp over concerns the measure would worsen conditions for temp workers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lower house passes temp workers bill to remove term limits

Japan's House of Representatives approves a bill during a plenary session in Tokyo on June 19, 2015, to enable companies to use dispatched workers indefinitely if they change the workers every three years, defying protests by the opposition camp over concerns the measure would worsen conditions for temp workers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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BTM temp staffer found embezzling 900 mil. yen, FSA issues warni

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the head office of the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in Tokyo's Marunouchi district. The Financial Services Agency said on Aug. 26 it has issued the bank a business improvement order after finding a temporary worker there embezzled more than 900 million yen over more than 10 years. (Kyodo)

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Poll to shed light on negative side of Koizumi labor reform

TOKYO, Japan - Hiroyuki Sato, 33, former temp worker for Hino Motors Ltd. speaks about his plight in a Tokyo rally held on July 31 in the run-up to the Aug. 30 general election to convey messages of the poor to politicians. (Kyodo)

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Reporters gather at a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company. (Kyodo)

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police officers examine a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company. (Kyodo)

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1 dead as alleged ex-Mazda temp hits 11 with car

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Police officers examine a site at a Mazda Motor Corp. plant in Hiroshima City where an alleged former temporary worker there hit 11 employees with a car, killing one, on June 22, 2010. Toshiaki Hikiji, who has been arrested, told the police he was fired by Mazda in April and had a ''grudge'' against the company. (Kyodo)

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4 laid-off workers at Isuzu Motors sue to reinstate jobs

UTSUNOMIYA, Japan - Kazunori Nakatani (C) and other former workers dismissed from a factory of Isuzu Motors Ltd. speak at a press conference in Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture, on Jan. 6 after filing with the Utsunomiya District Court for the reinstatement of their contracts, which were terminated before their terms expired by three temp staff agencies. (Kyodo)