Unions go head to head in Mexico. Court stops bill that would allow for less restraint and the ability to hire more on a temporary basis. [Labor Notes]
A temporary worker tells you of his day assignment at the Dakota building in NYC. [Working in These Times]
A study, released Monday by Berkley, states that raising the minimum wage would not reduce or slow down employment. It would however provide a boost to the economic recovery. What do you believe are the pros/cons in raising minimum wage? [The Hill]
Job discrimination against the jobless? New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) signed a law yesterday that made it illegal for an employer to explicitly state in a job posting that the unemployed need not apply, the first of its kind in the country. With the companies that you are hiring for, do you see many requests strictly for employed applicants? [24/7 Wall Street]
Factories and businesses more and more are looking to move to “right to work” states. It is an attempt to lessen the amount of strikes and union disputes while allowing more opportunity for various types of working relationships. Recently, the National Labor Relations Board has blocked a Boeing factory, that had moved to South Carolina, from operating pending an investigation as to whether the company’s shift of production to a union-hostile state in order to avoid union activity constituted “anti-union animus.” Should a business be allowed to move so that it can tailor and restructure the way that the business operates and hires? [The Economist]
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said in a town meeting held Friday in Topsham, Maine, ”I went to work at 11 years old. I became governor. It’s not a big deal. Work doesn’t hurt anybody.” Here is a link with a video and more detail. What are your thoughts after reading what the bill would actually allow? Do you think that the bill would help solidify work ethic or do you think it is positioned to exploit children for lower wage? [Huffington Post Political]
Have call centers lost their luster in recent years? The communities surrounding Yakima, Washington have been directly affected by this loss. Have you seen similar decline in your direct area? {Yakima Herald]
Robin O’Connor, owner of Calgary-based Staffing Strategies, finds it challenging to fill the roles of accountants and administrators for the property management industry. Are you experiencing high turn over rates or the inability to find qualified candidates in a specific industry? How do you overcome these hurdles? [The Globe and Mail]
Staffline buys Fourstar Employment for £3m. [Sharecast]
Added holidays, additional leave of work, new regulations on staffing firms, the ability of employee to file lien for wage claims, and others are offered as employment law bills to watch in Oregon. [Oregon Business Report]
Volt Workforce Solutions Named 2011 Veterans Employer of the Year by the California Employer Advisory Council (CEAC). Congratulations Volt! [4-Traders]
Many economists see temporary employment as a buffer during recessions and a harbinger of full-time hiring during recoveries. Will that hold true in this recovery? [Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond]
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I saw the Dakota temp worker’s piece yesterday, too! I would’ve had the same reaction he did, though I’d have the opportunity to say, “Hey, I worked in John Lennon’s former stomping grounds.” I feel the same – you can’t even be envious because you can’t scratch the surface of that amount of wealth, and it’s almost a form of entertainment to see how the other half lives.
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Let the kids work I say! Too many spoiled youth with fancy tech gadgets and no responsibilities makes for lazy, unappreciative, delusional workers. America has enough of those. Time to instill some work ethic back into America’s future! Leave it to the left wing extremest to say that passing that bill would place us back to the position resembling previous child labor abuse. I believe this to be a great opportunity for those that are younger that need to work to make ends meet. They’ll still have worker’s rights. What’s the big deal?
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I don’t trust NELP and their studies. They are an advocacy group and get their funding by supporting a particular political perspective. I would no sooner believe them than a study by Donald Trump claiming that the rich aren’t rich enough.
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