{"id":1726,"date":"2020-05-08T20:38:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1726"},"modified":"2020-05-08T20:38:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T01:38:05","slug":"employees-vs-shareholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1726","title":{"rendered":"Employees vs Shareholders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-840\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/3guyswalk.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Many workers have been laid off or furloughed since the beginning of the Corona virus pandemic. \u00a0As companies\u00a0close stores, curtail production and shed employees, some are continuing to pay shareholders. \u00a0Even though this may be a &#8220;bigger&#8221; picture issue, the optics of these business practices is not likely to win support. \u00a0The Washington Post reports that Caterpillar, Levi Strauss, and Stanley Black and Decker have all chosen shareholders over employees. \u00a0Deciding who will bear the brunt of the current economic climate is tough, but\u00a0should it be the workers?<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"\n        font--headline\n        gray-darkest\n        mb-sm\n        null\n      \" data-qa=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2020\/05\/05\/dividends-layoffs-coronavirus\/\">U.S. companies cut thousands of workers while continuing to reward shareholders during pandemic<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many workers have been laid off or furloughed since the beginning of the Corona virus pandemic. \u00a0As companies\u00a0close stores, curtail production and shed employees, some are continuing to pay shareholders. \u00a0Even though this may be a &#8220;bigger&#8221; picture issue, the optics of these business practices is not likely to win support. \u00a0The Washington Post reports &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1726\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Employees vs Shareholders<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5],"tags":[1323,370,1325,1326,96,1324,1322,846],"class_list":["post-1726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-model","category-economics","tag-bear-the-brunt","tag-employees","tag-furloughed-workers","tag-layoffs","tag-money","tag-pandemic","tag-shareholders","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1726\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}