| Amid a barrage of criticism from the public about featherbedding and overmanning, Hong Kong's civil service is being forced to streamline and reform. |
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| They defend their practices of featherbedding and looking after their friends. |
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| Stories of union featherbedding enrage the tea-party crowd, and that makes Democrats in swing states nervous. |
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| When every joke about your business mentions featherbedding, you should be worried about outsourcing. |
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| The existence of featherbedding in any specific instance is usually disputed and depends on what is considered reasonable. |
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| Work rules that require large work crews or that restrict the amount of work a worker can do in a given time period may be considered featherbedding. |
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| And the featherbedding that has been all but abolished from private industry continues within big-city school systems. |
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| Include UNISON and the whole situation is crystallised into one massive group which wants the featherbedding of the public sector to continue no matter what the cost. |
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| Make cuts in other departments and get rid of featherbedding. |
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| There's a lot of creative record-keeping going on, as well as bureaucratic featherbedding, but it's the non-riding taxpayers who are really being railroaded. |
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| Featherbedding provisions in labour contracts may result from the continuation of work rules that were once efficient but that have become obsolete because of changed technology. |
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| Featherbedding by the state breeds complacency and soon performances begin to flag. |
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