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  2. Unreported employment - Wikipedia

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    That encourages unreported employment of short-term laborers. A large amount of work for only a day or two is unreported. Although nanny laws make allowances for the homeowner, businesses are typically required to fill out and file several hours' worth of paperwork even for an hour's worth of work.

  3. Kingdom of the Little People - Wikipedia

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    As of 2010, there were over 100 employees whose ages ranged from 19 to 48. The park requires employees to be less than 51 inches (130 cm) tall. [2] The employees live in nearby dormitories which were specifically constructed to be accessible to short people. During the performances, the actors pretend to live in small mushroom shaped houses. [2 ...

  4. Migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council region

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    The relatively small populations in the GCC countries, as well as limited numbers of female workers and male workers of the appropriate age, [16] combined with a plenitude of foreign workers willing to migrate, constitute important "pull" and "push" factors which explain the migration growth of the 1970s. [5]

  5. Migrant worker - Wikipedia

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    The Act on the Employment of Foreign Workers which states that "a foreign worker shall not be given discriminatory treatment on the ground that he/she is a foreigner", was put into force on 16 August 2003. Later that year the numbers of migrant workers multiplied dramatically. [45]

  6. Foreign worker - Wikipedia

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    Foreign workers or guest workers are people who work in a country other than one of ... countries with more than 0.5% employees were from another EU country were ...

  7. Dwarfism - Wikipedia

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    Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).

  8. Guest worker program - Wikipedia

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    The Bracero Program was a temporary-worker importation agreement between the United States and Mexico from 1942 to 1964. Initially created in 1942 as an emergency procedure to alleviate wartime labor shortages, the program actually lasted until 1964, bringing approximately 4.5 million legal Mexican workers into the United States during its lifespan.

  9. International labour law - Wikipedia

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    The concept of protecting workers from the perils of labour environments dates all the way back to 14th-century Europe. [6] The first example of the modern labor rights movement, though, came in response to the brutal working conditions that accompanied the onset of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th and 19th centuries. [6]