to — MANCHESTER HERALD. Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1983 Committee works on pension iaws to heip job sharing By Susan E. Kinsman make is: are we dealing with arrangement and 1 don’t want to force, to improve employee mo­ United Press International benefits accrued to a position or mingham, Mass., first used it In the cost factor.”’ She said the leave that 40 percent person with rale and to provide a flexible benefits accrued to individuals?” 1965 to recruit teachers and the committee has estimated the op^ ‘Hard-core’ lobleas man Neighbor’s kitchen ’83 no benefits,” she said. working environment that re­ Steel layoffs HARTFORD — Job sharing — she said. "W e’ve got some serious Teachers working less than 16 work option is still used in the tion would be used by 5 to 7 percent sponds well to the changing needs Commonwealth. two people sharing the same job — questions." class hours a week are not eligible of public employees. of our work force," Mrs. Favreau In Hawaii, job .sharing has been says lobby Is needed most asked-for recipes not temporary could be a popular work option for Her study committee includes for benefits. The committee is still said. Meanwhile, committee single parents and workers ap­ six legislators, representatives used as a pilot program pairing members wilt try to talk to labor checking benefits for state "Th e committee advocates that proaching retirement in Connecti­ from the Permanent Commission tenured teachers with those newly unions to weight their support for ... page 3 ... page 13 workers. it be considered a work option that page 5 cut except for state pension laws on the Status of Women, the hired and pro-rating their pension Extending benefits to part ti­ can be negotiated into labor the idea and possibly head off penalizing the arrangement. benefits. Like Connecticut, the teachers retirement commission, mers could cause problems with contracts ... and wishes to encour­ potential problems before the A legislative study committee is pension issue is a problem because the Connecticut Boards of Educa­ "double-dipping" by workers who age use of job sharing by creating Legislature reconvenes in working to make job sharing part tion and both major teacher have other jobs. ”It could be very benefits are not paid to public February. an informational network," she employees working less than 20 of the state’s employment picture unions. A member of the state costly and may jeopardize the said. by revamping the pension formula Department of Education has been hours a week. whole bill,” Mrs. Favreau said. Job sharing has been found to to remove the disincentive for asked to join. Despite the problems from defi­ The study committee also pro­ decrease turnover and absentee­ public employees. They have been meeting since nition on down, there is demand for posed the Permanent Commission ism, improve morale and recruit­ The problem is differentiating October and hope to convince the job sharing,said Mrs. Favreau. on the Status of Women be directed ment and give employers better Flag confusion Rainy today job sharers from part-time Legislature’s Labor and Public "It appeals ti- women in child- Manchester, Conn. to collect materials on setting up coverage and more skills, said workers, some of whom do not Health Committee next month to rearing years, but to teachers The true history of the Stars and and Thursday job sharing programs and make Cyndi Billian Stern, who shares Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1983 qualify for pension benefits. draft a bill ’ ’to remove all statutory participating in phase-in retire­ Stripes has become so cluttered by those materials available through her job as director of the non-profit "Job sharers are two people obstacles that penalize job sharers ment programs and in single­ myth and tradition that the facts — See page 2 Single copy: 25<F the state personnel, labor and agency Family and Career To­ sharing the rights, benefits and in the pension area” It would be parent families it appeals to men are difficult, and in some cases M m ih tB k Y I f r a l b education departments. gether in West Hartford. "1 prac­ responsibilities of one position,” directed at public employees, as well. It’s becoming a family impossible, to establish. It is not "The study committee has con­ tice what 1 preach," she said. said Rep, Irene Favreau, D-New particularly teachers. issue," she said, certain who really designed the cluded that job sharing is a work Job sharing by teachers and Britain, who heads the study "W e have no (pension) problem Mrs. Favreau is optimistic it will Stars and Stripes, who made the arrangement that can be benefi­ public employees has been used in committee. with job sharers working 50-50. But be favorably received by both the first such flag, or even whether it cial to employers and employees... at least five states and by the "The distinction we have to it’s conceivable we’d have a 60-40 committee and the Legislature, ever flew in any sea fight or land because it helpstoexpand the work federal government. Fra­ ’’particularly if we can work out battle of the American Revolution. Bowl Explosion kills Witness claims is big G R o s s m m i 's six in Buffalo 2 for BC this year p r o d u c t s ‘assassin’ f^nC^evRns c o m P R iiv By Tom Campbell but one was completely covered United Press International with blood.” By Steven W. Syre Firefighters saved an elderly United Press International BUFFALO, N.Y. — A propane woman in a wheelchair from an unarmed leak exploded In a huge Breball, upstairs apartment of a two- story M E M P H IS , Tenn. — The Boston College football killing six people, injuring 70 home across the street from the team, players clad in gold-colored helmets, were at others and blasting a downtown warehouse. By Fernando Del AAundo work this week preparing for the Liberty Bowl, the neighborhood into a twisted lands­ Automobile radiators were United Press International culmination of a successful season that put them in the cape of bricks, broken glass and strewn about and one fireman national rankings. charred wood. pulled a white propane tank from MANILA, Philippines — A civ­ The bowl game Thursday night, and the process Winter Projects for the ilian witness testified today be saw Five of the six victims were under a pile of bricks. Christmas that led to the team’s selection as a participant, firefighters who were checking a tree garland from a neighboring Benigno Aquino’s alleged assassin involve more than bragging points for students and reported propane leak at the North home was spotted in a tree, along joking with soldiers moments supportive alumni. Division warehouse. A series of with mangled pieces of house before tht m urder and said be did It’s a big-money proposition. blasts that shot out from the siding. not believe he man fired the shot The fees the school will receive for appearing in the building destroyed at least' 10 The Erie County Medical Exa­ thht killed t> e opposition leader. Liberty Bowl, plus revenues from games the team Remodeler in You homes, ripping them apart like m iner’s office early today con­ "H e did not have the opportunity played on regional and national television during the matchboxes. firmed six deaths. Several others to fire a shot, ’ ’ said Ramon Balang, regular season, could buy more than a linebacker’s CLOSED JAN. 1 - OPEN MON. JAN. 2nd 8:00 A. M.-5:00 P.M At least two firefighters were were hospitalized in critical condi­ 28. The Philippine Airlines ground weight in gold. burled under nibble, and a resi­ tion. Identities of the victims were engineer is the second civilian Putting a nationally ranked team on the field also is dent was "plastered up against one not immediately available. airline employee in a week to expensive, though Boston College doesn’t say how of the trucks," said firefighter “ All I saw was a big ball of fire," dispute the government version of much money it spends. David Bethge upon arriving at the said firefighter Frank Borodzik, Aquino’s Aug. 21 murder, but the Boston University, a member of the 'Vankee scene. "Th e y never knew what hit who was in a second truck a only one to testify to an investigat­ Conference with less demanding pressures and them." half-block behind the first one. "In ing commission. smaller rewards, budgeted $250,000 for their football "A s I came up I saw three my 25 years of firefighting. I’ve Lawyers said Balang, whose program before scholarships this year, said BU firefighters covered with blood and never seen anything this bad” UPI ohoto testimony contradicted that of Athletic Director John B. Simpson. staggering," said police officer More than 125 firefighters man- three military witnesses, went into Nebraska, the nation’s top-ranked team, is a William Conwall. ’’I don’t know Buffalo firefighters search the crushed of two that were caught in an explosion hiding after giving his account to a 3'/2" Kraft perennial powerhouse and spends heaps of money to Manville how severely they were injured. Please turn to page 8 and burned-out cab of a fire truck, one during a five-alarm fire on Tuesday. five-member commission in a stay among the leaders. G ary Foraker, the school’s R-11 « A U house on the outskirts of Manila. business manager for athletics, said the football team MSUUTHM Balang told reporters taken to is budgeted for $4 million, but brings in $7.5 million.