Parenting Subcontractors

" Catherine Castrence is not a morning person. So between getting her daughters dressed and fed breakfast, letting the dog out and giving an insulin shot to the family's diabetic cat, the Reston, Va., working...

New Year pack for new CIS , HM Revenue & Customs (National)

"Contractors will receive a bumper New Year's package of help this week as they prepare for the launch by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of the new Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) in April. With just three months to go contractors are making their final preparations. The...

Floor cleaners from as far away as Mongolia

No distance too far -- No labor too cheap.

Tenemos trabajo viajaremos -- Have jobs, will travel

Thousands of immigrant workers have become crucial to the booming construction industry but will they be forced to go home?

a better idea than machine-readable biometric identity cards for migrant workers

Proposal to implant RFID tracking tags in migrant workers.

employers have little trouble documenting immigrants

But whether the documents are valid is another matter. Some documents are fakes.

overhaul must break the culture that encourages illegal work force

A machine-readable biometric identity card for migrant workers.

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