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Un-Hiring Employees

NPR

Published May 1, 2001 at 9:00 PM PDT

NPR's Elaine Korry reports that high-tech companies are cutting jobs by un-hiring the new college graduates who have yet to report to work. The graduates are paid as much as two months' salary as an un-signing bonus.