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  • July 2008

    • Minimum Wage Gets Bump

      Baltimore Sun  |  Jul 23, 08 2:31 PM CDT

      Minimum Wage Gets Bump

      (Newser) - The federal minimum wage will get a 70-cent boost tomorrow to $6.55 an hour, reports the Baltimore Sun , but it's not good news for everyone. The bump will help workers chip away at rising food, gas, and health care costs, raising the annual payoff of a 40-hour work week to $13,624, about $3,000 over the federal poverty level. Small businesses, facing customer declines, "fully understand" their plight, says one shop owner, "but Ma and Pa stores can't afford to keep having to raise our wages." More »

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      workers  • minimum wage  • wage increase

  • June 2008

    • Raise a Glass to the Joys (and Pains) of Happy Hour

      Reuters  |  Jun 24, 08 8:02 PM CDT

      Raise a Glass to the Joys (and Pains) of Happy Hour

      (Newser) - Is it happy hour yet? About 20% of Americans regularly go out for drinks with colleagues after work, says a survey from careerbuilder.com. Reuters runs down the highlights: Most go out just to be social, but about 30% say they do so to gossip or only because they feel obligated. Only 4% dared admit to breaking out in karaoke with co-workers. 5% said they shared company secrets while under the influence.   More »

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      social networking  • work  • alcohol abuse  • workers  • alcohol consumption

  • May 2008

    • Office Workers Demand Macs

      BusinessWeek  |  May 4, 08 6:15 PM CDT

      Office Workers Demand Macs

      (Newser) - The exclusive club of Mac devotees is quietly expanding from students and artists to the corporate world, BusinessWeek reports. And the change is fueled by workers, not sales calls: In fact, nearly nine in 10 recently surveyed companies admitted that Mac-loving workers are influencing computer buys. And it's contributing to a predicted 33% growth in Apple's second quarter revenue. More »

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      work  • workers  • corporate  • Business trends  • Mac

  • March 2008

    • Part-Time Work Jumps 16% as Many Jobs Contract

      Wall Street Journal  |  Mar 8, 08 12:10 PM CST

      Part-Time Work Jumps 16% as Many Jobs Contract

      (Newser) - Tough economic times—and a drop in full-time jobs in some sectors—are pushing more people into part-time work, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Labor Department says 16% more workers—some 4.79 million people—are working part-time jobs this year than last, the highest total since 1993. More »

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      US economy  • Wal-Mart  • employment  • job market  • Labor Department  • workers  • US workers  • below the line workers  • part-time jobs

  • February 2008
  • October 2007

    • 5 Killed in Energy Plant Blaze

      CNN  |  Oct 3, 07 1:41 AM CDT

      5 Killed in Energy Plant Blaze

      (Newser) - Five workers trapped in an empty water tunnel at a Colorado hydroelectric plant were killed late yesterday when a chemical fire ignited in equipment. The workers had communicated after the blaze erupted that they were safe, but firefighters later found their bodies as they battled the blaze. The men worked for a contractor doing routine maintenance for the Xcel plant in Georgetown. More »

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      Colorado  • firefighters  • fires  • workers  • Georgetown

  • August 2007

    • Google Wants You To Map Businesses

      Infocommerce  |  Aug 17, 07 3:56 PM CDT

      Google Wants You To Map Businesses

      (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, and then send it to Google for $10 a pop, reports InfoCommerce. More »

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      Google  • employment  • workers  • data  • database  • freelance

  • July 2007
  • June 2007

    • Duped Workers Build Baghdad Embassy

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 7, 07 10:56 AM CDT

      Duped Workers Build Baghdad Embassy

      (Newser) - The Kuwaiti company building the $592 million US embassy in Baghdad is under scrutiny for allegedly tricking workers into coming to Iraq. The Justice Department says Kuwaiti First promised poor workers from Bangladesh and Pakistan it would send them to Dubai, but instead brought them to the Green Zone, seized their passports, and trapped them on the potentially hazardous project. More »

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      Baghdad  • Green Zone  • workers  • embassy

  • May 2007

    • Outsourcing Firms Grab Visas

      BusinessWeek  |  May 15, 07 11:51 AM CDT

      Outsourcing Firms Grab Visas

      (Newser) - H1B visas—intended to bring high-skilled foreign workers to the U.S.—may in fact helping foreign companies to train their workers, two senators argue. Data released by Republicans Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley indicate that nine Indian outsourcing firms use up 30% of the H1B visas granted each year, more than experts had realized previously. More »

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      immigration  • immigration reform  • outsourcing  • visa  • workers

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