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Limited employees reassigned to Green Lawn

The growing number people facing unemployment is helping even the departed as Limited Brands, based in Columbus, reassigned a group of 25 warehouse employees to Green Lawn Cemetery for August to avoid further layoffs.

According to The Columbus Dispatch, the workers cleared brush and vegetation from an iron fence that surrounds the 380-acre cemetery. Part of the fence was also painted.

The effort was the first time any company had its employees work their regular full-time hours volunteering at the cemetery, though other companies have had a smaller number of employees work fewer hours.

The Limited workers received their normal salery for the hours worked.

Ohio’s unemployment rate stands at 11.2 percent as of July.

Green Lawn, which employs only eight graveyard workers and was founded in 1848, usually offers volunteer opportunities to those interested.

The 360-acre site has nearly 150,000 interments.

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Information taken from: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/business/stories/2009/09/03/limited_graveyard.ART_ART_09-03-09_A10_N9EUVCV.html