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Automation of Everything – The jobless world and its discontents – Originally published by the…
Union-trained workers who saved the passengers on Flight 1549, from Captain Sully to the ferry…
Report: Employees Aim to Prepare for Robots by Learning New Skills
Your Career Q&A: Getting a Promotion Takes More Than Tenure
If an Employee Attends a Beyonce Concert While on FMLA Leave, Can She Be Terminated?
ACLU Sues Government over Laptop Searches at U.S. Borders
California Lawmakers Approve Controversial Workplace Immigration Bill
California Lawmakers Approve Controversial Workplace Immigration Bill
On his first work day the president signalled how he may approach dealing with corporate giants.…
By Michael Grabell ProPublica, Sept. 13, 2016 — A national campaign to rewrite state laws and allow businesses to decide how to care for their injured workers suffered a significant setback Sept. 13, 2016, when the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma’s version of the law is unconstitutional. The 2013 legislation gave Oklahoma employers the ability…
By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon — There are a lot of ways employers can manipulate your time using timekeeping software, some of which are legal and others highly questionable. If you work on an hourly basis, you may not have given much thought to what happens to your…
ManpowerGroup announced that it has become the first foreign-owned workforce solutions company to obtain the new Vietnamese Subleasing License. The new license is one of the most significant aspects of the new labour code adopted by the National Assembly of Vietnam; providing, for the first time, a set of comprehensive guidelines for the provision of…
By Nicolas Friederici, Researcher, Digital Economies, University of Oxford — With almost half the world’s population now online, attempts to spread the Internet continue unabated. Underlying this agenda is a rationale that the spread of the Internet leads directly to economic growth and development. The likes of Facebook and Google offer data services for “free”, while satellites,…
Automation of Everything – The jobless world and its discontents – Originally published by the…
By Nicolas Friederici, Researcher, Digital Economies, University of Oxford — With almost half the world’s population now…
By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon — There are…
The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or ACICS, has been under scrutiny for…
By Joy Waltemath and Pamela Wolf, J.D. — Nevada, joined by 20 other states, has filed a lawsuit in…
Report: Employees Aim to Prepare for Robots by Learning New Skills
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As artificial intelligence and automation continue to replace jobs, a new study found that three-quarters of U.S. employees say they’re ready to learn new skills to remain employable. Some 10,000 pe...
Expert: Proposed Class-Action Lawsuit Against Google Could Reform Pay Disparities in Other Fields
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Should the discrimination lawsuit launched against Google by three female former employees reach class-action status, one labor law expert says, it could kick-start pay disparity reform across and bey...
