Retrenchment may sometimes be a necessary part of securing future employment for large sections of the workforce. However, the key to a good outcome lies in developing and implementing a retrenchment procedure that achieves the commercial aims of the process while minimizing the impact of job losses on workers and communities. Such a procedure, often encapsulated in a retrenchment plan, should be founded on widespread consultation (particularly with workers and their representatives) and should seek to
Achilles [(uh-kil-eez)] In classical mythology, the greatest warrior on the Greek side in the Trojan War. When he was an infant, his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river, but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable.
Achilles' mother, Thetis, dipped him in the Styx River to make him invulnerable, but she was careless not to include the part by which she was holding him - his heel, the only part of his body where he could be wounded. So Achilles died when Paris shot him with his bow and arrows. 4 people found this useful.