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Lazy Days Of Summer

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Electricite de France says it will conduct a disciplinary hearing for Corinne Maier. The state-owned utility says the economist sowed discontent among her colleagues. How? She wrote a book detailing how workers use company rules to do as little work as possible and how the least productive workers are often promoted to jobs where they can do less damage. Maier did not name any individuals in the book.