And a number of surveys in recent weeks have shown employers intend to use fewer agency workers in the year ahead.

This was, of course, precisely what Bunlap and the mercenary captain's mysterious employer had intended.

Many other employers intend to cut back benefits, requiring future retirees to pay more of their own medical bills.

The findings follow a number of surveys last year, which showed employers intend to use fewer agency workers in 2012.

The court also looked at the intent of the parties and decided the employer never intended the room and board to form part of his compensation.

He knew that his employer intended to make a large deposit in that account very shortly.

"Do you or your employers intend to make reparations for all the property damage your clumsiness just caused?"

The bill would also require workers who claim job discrimination to prove that an employer intended to discriminate, which is nearly impossible.

Two recent surveys found that many employers intended to do so, at least in 2006.

Ms. Goldstein doubts that most employers intend to cut off the desperately ill.