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Family Employment Policy
Omar agonized about whether to join his family’s fifty-employee ladder and scaffolding business. In high school and college during breaks, he had worked at the company his grandfather had founded, but Omar had felt no pressure to build his own career there. So he followed his own dreams for years, working as a newspaper editor. But after his own son was born, he decided it was time to settle into his family legacy. Not only did it mean saner hours and better pay, but he was also excited about helping his father and aunt run the business.
Four painful years later, Omar recognized that he had made a mistake. In hindsight, the family never really figured out how to bring its members into the business, and certainly ...
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