Deploying OFWs for wrong job is misrepresentation, POEA warns recruiters (GMA News) MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on Thursday promised to investigate a manpower agency that was alleged to have coached workers it sent to Saudi Arabia to lie about their qualifications. |
Preying on desperate job seekers (The New Straits Times) KUALA LUMPUR: When you are down, people prey on your misery. That was the case with several job seekers who were cheated by bogus employment agencies. |
Job search begins (Palladium-Item) Former MasterBrand Cabinets Inc. employee Paula Johnson saw several co-workers Tuesday at the WorkOne office, including some who had trouble negotiating the employment service's computers. |
Labour & Employment (Mondaq) The first initiative, the Good Faith Initiative for Veterans Employment (coined, "G-FIVE"), promotes the hiring of veterans through the creation of various incentive programs for federal contractors and subcontractors (collectively, "contractors"), and reaffirms the employment rights of veterans under the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). 1 G-FIVE establishes a number ... |
Can't Find a Job? ANPE's Not Convinced (adrants) ANPE -- the National Agency for Employment in France -- tapped TBWA\Corporate to preach its gospel to disheartened work force rejects. What they came up with is respectful of ANPE's traditionally risk-averse style, but also playful in a Where's Waldo? sorta way. |
Temp job can boost options (Lawrence Journal-World) Q: I accepted a job with a CPA firm and the environment was unbearable; plus, they changed the waiting period on my medical benefits from 30 to 60 days, after I started. I resigned after three months, relocated, and now I’m looking for employment. What is the best way to job search? I have registered with a temp agency but want to remain available to search for full time. — Marian |
Cook County agency pays $10,000 to dress employees for success (Daily Herald) The Cook County President's Office of Employment Training has a professional new look, but critics say the new attire comes at too high a cost. |
Store to pay $25K in lawsuit (Asheville Citizen-Times) ASHEVILLE – A video rental chain will pay $25,100 and furnish remedial relief to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced Wednesday. |
German jobless rate falls further, but trend 'nearing end' (AFP via Yahoo! News) German unemployment fell further in August, but the biggest European economy is flirting with recession and its job market will probably feel the effects later this year, analysts said Thursday. |
Pennsylvania Gov. Rendell Applauds State Agency for Work in Equal Opportunity (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Agency Wins National Honor Today |