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employment stories: 73 news summaries

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Google Wants You To Map Businesses

Search giant will hire everyone to collect data at $10 a pop

Aug 17, 07 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google is hiring—and you don't even need to know html. The search giant wants locals to visit pizza joints, ice cream parlors, drugstores, and other businesses as part of a Herculean effort to build a commerce database. An army of freelancers will collect the data, snap a digital photo,... More »

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Google • employment • workers • data • database • freelance

Smoking Clouds Workplace Productivity

Lighting up means poorer health, poorer work, researchers say

Aug 16, 07 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Employees who smoke also call in sick more frequently and demonstrate poorer productivity, to the tune of $92 billion in annual losses, a Swedish researcher says. All that huddling by the loading dock translates to startling hard numbers, CareerBuilder.com reports: In a study of 14,000 workers, smokers took,... More »

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health • work • smoking • cigarettes • tobacco • employment

Bush Vows to Hunt Down Illegals

Upped enforcement promises crisis for some

Aug 14, 07 8:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush is vowing to enforce old immigration laws after all, now that comprehensive reform has croaked on the Senate floor. He promises to crack down on workers who don't have valid Social Security numbers in particular, but bosses parry that there can be good reasons for numerical snafus with the... More »

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immigration • law enforcement • employment • reform • illegal employment • roofing • Social Security

Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

How to tell it's time to
move on with your employment search

Aug 9, 07 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - BusinessWeek gives job-seekers seven signs that you're getting the brush-off:
  1. Your calls to the recruiter generate nothing but silence.
  2. You miss the first phone screen; that ship has sailed.
  3. Musical interviewers; someone else has landed the job.
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work • list • employment • business tips • job search

FBI Mellows Out on Drug Standards

Holistic approach
to applicants gives casual users a break

Aug 7, 07 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The FBI no longer disqualifies applicants who admit to past drug use, the Washington Post reports. The agency previously turned away wannabes who acknowledged smoking marijuana more than 15 times, but times have changed. Potential employees must still swear they have not partaken in recent years, and the FBI's policy... More »

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FBI • drugs • drug addiction • drug use • employment • marijuana

Wal-Mart Mexico Pays Teen Baggers Nada

Retail giant calls
young, uncompensated workers 'volunteers'

Aug 1, 07 4:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wal-Mart has 4,300 teenagers bagging merchandise for free in its Mexican stores, Newsweek reports. The retail giant isn't doing anything illegal, since the kids aren't technically workers but "volunteers" who donate their time in exchange for gratuities from customers. But labor activists say the notoriously bottom-line-minded company is... More »

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Mexico • wages • employment • salary • foreign labor • volunteer • Wal-Mart • teenager

Sell Yourself: 5 DIY PR Tips

Raise your business' profile on the cheap

Jul 31, 07 1:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Most of us can't afford to hire a PR firm. Forbes offers tips for self-promoting with the best of them.
  1. Know your audience. Spend some time researching the best way to put yourself out there.
  2. Make a (useful) press kit. Not just more fodder for the recycling bin.
... More »

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work • list • employment • public relations • business tips

Moms Look to Part-Time Work

60% say part-time job is the most appealing option

Jul 12, 07 5:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Young women with children are more interested in job flexibility than their boomer moms were: 60% of employed moms would like to work part-time, rather than full-time or no job at all—up 12% from a decade ago, a new study shows. But only 24% of those surveyed actually work... More »

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mothers • employment • working mothers • part-time jobs

Ten Worst Jobs in Science

The less glamorous side of research,
from toxic waste to whale feces

Jul 4, 07 11:47 AM CDT
(Newser) -
  1. Hazmat diver: They swim in sewage, toxic spills and other undesirable liquid environments.
  2. Oceanographer: With the coral reefs dying, pollutants rising, and overfishing it's just one long stream of bad news.
  3. Elephant vasectomist: With a testicle a foot in diameter, it isn't exactly a walk in the
... More »

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work • science • garbage • list • employment

Globalization Has a Hard Chocolate Shell

Hershey to shutter Calif. operation, cut thousands of jobs

May 31, 07 2:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a "global supply-chain transformation," Hershey will slash its domestic workforce and build a plant in Mexico. The chocolate giant projects savings of tens of millions of dollars a year, but the numbers don't mean much in Oakdale, Calif., where 575 employees will be our of their jobs... More »

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Mexico • globalization • outsourcing • Hershey • labor • employment • Milton Hershey

Wal-Mart Drops The Smock

Company hopes a preppier look will
help attract more upscale customers

Apr 6, 07 11:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Wal-Mart employees are about to ditch their frumpy frocks in favor of a preppier look—khaki pants and dark-blue polos. It's part of a broader initiative to streamline and modernize the megastore's image to attract a new, wealthier customer base, Business Week reports. Other recent upscaling: vinyl wood floors and... More »

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brands • upselling • dress code • uniforms • work • employment • Wal-Mart

Thumb Prints Produce Cash in Rural India

New biometric ATMs help the illiterate poor get wages faster

Apr 3, 07 11:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Payday in rural India now comes with the scan of a fingerprint: Brand new biometric cash machines are letting illiterate laborers collect their meager wages hassle-free. Account holders are issued an ATM card bearing their thumb print information; when they withdraw money, they follow voice commands to retrieve their wages.... More »

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technology • India • biometrics • ATMs • labor • employment • fingerprinting

Guestworker Abuses Cited

Mar 12, 07 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - American employers are systematically exploiting the 120,000 low-skilled guest workers they hire each year, from stealing passports and Social Security cards to consistently underpaying them. “I felt like an animal without claws—defenseless. It is the same as slavery,” says one worker, in a report published today... More »

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Bush administration • immigration • illegal immigrant • immigration reform • labor • employment • guest worker

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