Job Searching While Black: What’s Behind The Unemployment Gap?
In research for her book The American Non-Dilemma: Racial Inequality Without Racism, DiTomaso began by interviewing several hundred white people from across the country about their job histories. She found … Continue reading
Goshen Hospital Employees Fired After Refusing Mandatory Flu Shot
The age-old debate between personal liberty and public responsibility has found contentious new participants: health care workers. The debate recently reached a fever pitch after eight employees at Indiana University Health … Continue reading
‘Irresistible’ worker fired in Iowa: ‘I don’t think it’s fair’
Melissa Nelson, a worker fired for being “irresistible” to her boss, spoke out Saturday about a high court decision that said her termination broke no discrimination law… Nelson spoke one day … Continue reading
Stale Ph.D.’s Need Not Apply
When Harvard University and Colorado State University recently posted job ads indicating that applicants should be very recent recipients of Ph.D.’s, many people saw the ads as confirmation of something … Continue reading
Long-Term Unemployment Worse Than A Criminal Record When It Comes To Job Placement: Survey
A new survey has found that hiring managers and recruiters believe it is easier to place a candidate who has a job — but who also has a criminal record … Continue reading
Who Are The Happiest Workers in America (And Who Is Getting Happier)?
Work paradise is, in fact, to be found in the ranks of independent professionals. MBO, a company that specializes in providing services to this happy group, has just published its second State of … Continue reading
Spain’s Crisis Reignites an Old Social Conflict
Outmaneuvering the police, hundreds of jobless farmworkers charged through a hole in a fence and turned the manicured gardens of a vacant estate here in Spain’s agricultural heartland into a … Continue reading
A Nation of Temps
These workers are often called the “precariat,” a combination of “precarious” and “proletariat,” because the traditional social safety nets for workers don’t cover them. They have no job security as … Continue reading
Starbucks expanding effort to help businesses create jobs
Starbucks is expanding an unusual effort to create jobs through small business loans, which the company launched last fall after chief executive Howard Schultz lambasted politicians for not doing more to fix … Continue reading
