Hospitality businesses say they want working visas for migrants to be fast-tracked as they struggle to fill job vacancies.
Employers are continually having to make more of an effort to recruit new staff and job applicants. They have been increasingly using more financial resources like referral bonuses and premiums paid to a current employee when they recommend a new colleagues who is subsequently hired, said employers’ association AWVN this week.A member survey showed that more than half of employers use referral bonuses. Half of the companies are also giving new staff members higher salaries.
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - The Clark County School District is taking action to stop the flow of teachers from exiting the district. As of February of this year, the district has 1,316 teacher vacancies. CCSD entered the school year with 1,131 openings. The CCSD Board of Trustees is planning to declare a critical labor shortage []
The United States Labor Department filed a lawsuit in late March against a California poultry processor and its affiliated entities, accusing the firms of using "oppressive child labor." The newly filed lawsuit marks the latest in a long list of recent DOL investigations that have uncovered alleged illegal child labor. About the case The complaint, filed against L&Y Food, Moon Poultry, JRC Culinary, and the owner of the companies, Fu Qian Chen Lu, claims that the facilities hired minors to...
To the editor: I've lived in the L.A. area since 2007 and have been a champion of public transit. Yet, in the last five years, I've seen the degradation throughout the system as reported in your recent articles on Metro safety. Yes, we have to make our bus drivers and other personnel safe. But we're also dealing with a problem occasioned by our nation's failure to deal with poverty. As more and more people become homeless, drug-addicted, frightened and broken, violence grows. We can't make life...
As reported by the Texas Workforce Commission, the Texas labor market maintained momentum in March to each a 36th consecutive month of positive annual growth and set new record-high levels for jobs, Texans employed, and the civilian labor force.
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Ozzy Man Reviews has done it again. Here's a recent commentary where he takes the point of view of a poor koala that was stuck in a hole. Some kind strangers tried to help rescue the poor chap by dragging a huge tree branch and throwing it down into the hole so that the koala could use it to climb out. — Read the rest
Shafaqna Pakistan | by Kamal Khalid, Pakistan has reached a critical juncture in its debt cycle, where the fiscal strain is reverberating across various sectors, leading to a downturn in key indicators such as poverty, unemployment, and social discontent. The recent plunge to the bottom of the UN Human Development
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, these ecosystems are severely threatened by expanding agribusiness and logging activities. This poses significant risks to the environment, wildlife, and communities dependent on rainforests. Against the backdrop of escalating climate change impacts, urgent action is needed to prevent the collapse More
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Transparency, accountability, honesty. Federal labor law requires that businesses uphold these basic principles out of respect for workers. But labor unions have no such obligation, and they use this opening to their unfair advantage. They can secretly place union organizers at companies, deceiving workers and employers alike, while businesses must publicly disclose their attempts to […]