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Don't jail our good workers, bosses plead
I think it's ridiculous, protecting the guilty with any excuses. " GOOD workers are becoming so hard to find that employers are pleading with the courts to keep them out of jail.A Queensland judge was asked twice yesterday to spare defendants from jail sentences...
18% of UK high schoolers don't study or work
And I thought I was a slacker in high school for not having a job, but I haven't got anything on these 'Neets'--teenagers neither in employment, education, or training. According to the latest stats they're a big... Warning over maternity leave threat to women's careers
A commission has claimed that the right for a woman in the UK to take a year for maternity leave may be making employers hesitant to hire or promote women, for fear of losing them for a eyar down the line."THE right to a year's maternity leave could be ruining women's... Altruism Meets a Weak Job Market
"...a simple desire to change the world." –by By ANNE MARIE CHAKER –"...growing ranks of college graduates who, amid a worsening job market, are contributing to a surge in applications and enlistments at public-service agencies like Teach for America and the Peace Corps.... Human rights: Saudis treat domestic staff like 'virtual slaves'
Stories of exploitation of foreign domestic workers in Gulf countries are well know and not this current report renconfirms widely held view about the condition of Asian domestic Workers. " Asian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia face routine... HRW: Many Indonesia migrant workers in Saudi Arabia treated cruelly
If Indonesia is rich country..it wouldn't happen. " "Therefore, the Saudi Arabian government should immediately effect reforms in its manpower and immigration sectors, and its criminal courts to protect migrant workers in the country from criminal acts and enslavement," ...UK Government say firms must favour women and minorities
Equality minister Harriet Harman has set out a plan to allow British firms to discriminate in favour of female and ethnic minority job applicants. The new plan would not require firms to do so, but would allow them... Your boss shouldn't read your text or e-mail messages without an OK, court says
The Los Angeles times filed this report yesterday. It limits the ability for employers to monitor employee email and text messages, including personal messages, through outsourced services. This is a great step forward for individual privacy rights in the workplace. You can... Text-message ruling could change corporate policies
" SAN FRANCISCO -- Most employees know their bosses are usually within their rights snooping on workers' e-mail, but text messaging has been in murkier territory. A federal appeals court sought to clarify matters in a ruling Wednesday by distinguishing between electronic... US Workers shifting to 4-day week to save gas
Workers in certain parts of the US are being offered the chance to work for only four days a week. Why's that you ask?"The reason is simple: rising gas prices. And while so far only the university's custodians are... Cost of family health insurance nationwide increasing dramatically
" The cost of family health insurance nationwide is increasing dramatically for employees without anywhere near an equivalent increase in family income. If this trend continues, more workers are likely to become uninsured because of the expense.The amount workers pay for... Explosion at Mississippi paper plant kills one
An explosion at a Mississippi plant earlier today has killed one worker and injured 17 others." The blast at the International Paper plant in Vicksburg was caused by a boiler explosion about 3:15 p.m., said Nicole Vera, deputy director of 911 services. Warren County Coroner... U.S. sheds 20,000 jobs in April
The layoffs don't indicate a full-blown recession, apparently, but as one expert notes, it's "recessionary." If we're going to make up recession words, I prefer recessionistic because then you can sometimes say... Raul Castro plans reforms for Cuba
Raul Castro has issued a decree that now enables Cubans to own the titles to the houses they live in, rather than just renting them from the state."The measure was the first legal decree formally published by the... Malaysia to cut 500,000 foreign workers by 2009: report
"There are about 2.3 million foreign workers in Malaysia, according to home ministry figures, with the vast majority mainly employed in manufacturing and agriculture as well as in domestic work."We have been lax with the ruling to allow employers to cut costs with cheaper...
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