How often have we heard it said by conservative pundits and talk radio personalities that unemployed Americans are inclined to refuse menial work, apparently content to accept government handouts? The list of supposed "shall nots" are numerous: Americans won't bus tables, clean hotel rooms, harvest crops and, in general, bust our chops. On the flip side, …
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Snowden Debacle Spotlights Contracting Hazards
Harvard Business Review's Tammy Erickson describes in glowing terms "The Rise of the New Contract Worker ". The Defense Department would appear to be reevaluating this popular labor trend, though. The Huffington Post reports that while contractors comprise less than a quarter of the Defense Department's labor force, they account for 50 percent of its cost. …
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Equal Opportunity Hiring: Sunshine Laws for Digital Job Seekers
With unemployment holding at a four-year low of 7.5 percent and the national economic outlook improving modestly according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the job market recovery is nonetheless slower than at any time since World War II, a UCLA Anderson Forecast study shows. The question remains even as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …
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