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Workers in the northwestern Iranian city of Qazvin have staged protests in recent days to demand the payment of wage arrears. The reformist website Jaras reported that dozens of workers at Qazvin's textile industry staged a demonstration in front of the Presidential Institute in Tehran on April 16, saying they had not been paid for over a year. The next day, Fars agency reported that workers at Qazvin's Naznakh textile company protested in front of the parliament for not having received their wages for the past 16 months. Workers at the city's Ziaran slaughterhouse also claim not to have received...

NBC yesterday laid off the nonwriting staff members of its two late-night entertainment shows, the “Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” because of the strike by Hollywood scriptwriters. The move had been expected after NBC executives declined to extend the period where the network had been paying the nonwriting employees of the shows. Mr. O’Brien has said he will pay the salaries of his staff for at least next week. Mr. Leno has not made a similar announcement, though a representative said this week that Mr. Leno was paying a Christmas bonus to staff members....