Opinions/Blogs

Big Corporations Shouldn’t Get Tax Breaks to Create Jobs

Big Corporations Shouldn’t Get Tax Breaks to Create Jobs

By Jim Hightower — Governors and mayors insist that giving our tax dollars to corporations…

08/02/2018

Confronting Sexual Misconduct – Got a Question About Work in the Wake of #MeToo? You’re Not Alone.

Confronting Sexual Misconduct – Got a Question About Work in the Wake of #MeToo? You’re Not Alone.

Got a Question About Work in the Wake of #MeToo? You’re Not Alone. By Ariana Tobin…

07/02/2018

News

  • Canada vows 'full steam ahead' on ratifying trade pact after U.S. lifts metals tariffs

    Canada vows 'full steam ahead' on ratifying trade pact after U.S. lifts metals tariffs

  • Huawei founder says growth 'may slow, but only slightly' after U.S. restrictions

    Huawei founder says growth 'may slow, but only slightly' after U.S. restrictions

  • China's top diplomat calls for U.S. restraint on trade, Iran

    China's top diplomat calls for U.S. restraint on trade, Iran

  • China's top diplomat calls for U.S. restraint on trade, Iran

    China's top diplomat calls for U.S. restraint on trade, Iran

  • Spain's Globalia to launch new air carrier in Brazil: cabinet minister

    Spain's Globalia to launch new air carrier in Brazil: cabinet minister

  • Exxon evacuates foreign staff from Iraqi oilfield

    Exxon evacuates foreign staff from Iraqi oilfield

Little-Known Green Card Program – Who Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant?

Little-Known Green Card Program Exploited By Big Business – Who Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant? By Michael Grabell, ProPublica – The first week Yongho Yeom worked on the chicken line at the House of Raeford poultry plant was like nothing he had ever imagined as a computer engineer in South Korea. Supervisors…

07/02/2018

Little-Known Green Card Program – Who Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant?

Oklahoma’s Top Court: Companies Can’t Set Own Rules For Injured Workers

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…

21/09/2016

Oklahoma’s Top Court: Companies Can’t Set Own Rules For Injured Workers

Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers

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…

12/01/2017

Timekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers

ManpowerGroup Lands First Temporary Staffing License In Vietnam

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…

27/02/2015

ManpowerGroup Lands First Temporary Staffing License In Vietnam

Epic Fail! The Internet is not driving economic development, job creation

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,…

12/01/2017

Epic Fail! The Internet is not driving economic development, job creation

Labor

Hundreds of Brazilian Workers Rescued at Least Twice From Slavery in Past 15 Years

Hundreds of Brazilian Workers Rescued at Least Twice From Slavery in Past 15 Years

BRASILIA (ILO News) – More than 35,000 people were rescued from slavery in Brazil over…

07/02/2018

Little-Known Green Card Program – Who Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant?

Little-Known Green Card Program – Who Would Pay $26,000 to Work in a Chicken Plant?

Little-Known Green Card Program Exploited By Big Business – Who Would Pay $26,000 to Work…

07/02/2018

Automation of Everything – The jobless world and its discontents

Automation of Everything – The jobless world and its discontents

Automation of Everything – The jobless world and its discontents – Originally published by the…

12/01/2017

Management

ACICS Terminated, Agency Allowed Predatory For-Profit Colleges To Thrive

ACICS Terminated, Agency Allowed Predatory For-Profit Colleges To Thrive

The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, or ACICS, has been under scrutiny for…

24/09/2016

Final Overtime Rules Attacked By 21 States, Business Coalition Suing DOL

Final Overtime Rules Attacked By 21 States, Business Coalition Suing DOL

By Joy Waltemath and Pamela Wolf, J.D. — Nevada, joined by 20 other states, has filed a lawsuit in…

24/09/2016