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Wage Reduction Proposal The following proposal was made to employees of these conditions. If they accepted, 300 to 400 employees Montreal-based Quebecor's Videotron cable division: 126 were likely to be laid off, and the company could still Employees are asked to increase the number of hours consider outsourcing the work later. worked per week to 40 from 35, while receiving the same pay as working the shorter work week. In addi- Questions tion, they are asked to accept less paid holiday time. 1. Analyze this proposal in terms of motivation concepts. Quebecor spokesman Luc Lavoie justified the request made to the employees by saying, "They have the richest 2. As an employee, how would you respond if you work contract in the country, including eight weeks of received this proposal? holiday and high absenteeism." 3. If you were the executive vice-president of the The company made it clear that if this proposal were company, and a number of your non-unionized not accepted, it would sell its cable television and Internet employees asked you for a holiday cash gift, installation and repair operations to Entourage Technology would you have responded differently? Why or Solutions. why not? The employees, members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 2815, were reluctant to agree to