During the Recent Recession, Many Companies Have Instituted Wage Freezes

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True/False

During the recent recession, many companies have instituted wage freezes, dropped health care coverage, and increased hours of work to maintain profitability. According to the industrial relations school, the competitive forces of the economy, and employees' rights to quit and find another job, provide a sufficient "check and balance" system to ensure that other employers do not take advantage of the poor economy simply as a way to decrease the share of profits that are paid to labor.

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Definitions:

Condensed Structures

A method of writing the structure of a molecule in a simplified way, showing how atoms or groups are connected.

Compounds

Substances composed of two or more elements chemically bonded together.

Line-Angle Structure

A graphical representation of chemical structures wherein bonds between atoms are shown as lines, and atom junctions or line ends imply carbon atoms, streamlining the depiction of molecular structures.

Condensed Structure

A method of writing a structural formula of a molecule that shows the arrangement of atoms without drawing all bonds explicitly.