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Employers have used E-Verify for years: ICE’s arrest of Maine police officer raises new questions about it
OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Maine (AP) -- The case of a Maine police officer arrested by immigration authorities even though he was vetted by a government system called "E-Verify" has raised questions about what employers can do to make sure they're...

Job registry a step towards fairer employment
1 The recent launch of the Barbados Job Registry by Minister of Labour Colin Jordan marks a forward-looking and necessary intervention in the island’s employment ecosystem. The digital platform, designed to connect job seekers with employers,...

Staff on contract with Customs Division of GRA remanded over recruitment fraud
A staff member on contract with the Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority has been remanded into police custody by the Kaneshie District Court over alleged job scam. Basil Heward-Mills is alleged to have collected various sums of money...

Employment Tribunal Resolved 273 Cases Last Year, Audit Report Reveals
The Employment Tribunal resolved 273 cases in 2024, according to the Compliance Audit Report published by the Auditor General's Office. Statistics in the report show that 277 cases were submitted to the Tribunal last year, representing a 38.5...
Employer’s Contribution To NPS Is Treated As Salary And Included In Annual Income
I live in Gurgaon and I am a salaried person. Sometimes, I travel to Delhi from Gurgaon to take classes on weekends. I want to know to what extent I can deduct the charges related to travel, stationary, printing and lunch from the payment that I...

Employment – Discrimination – “Culture”
Where a defendant employer was granted summary judgment in an age discrimination suit, the judgment must be reversed because the plaintiff has offered sufficient evidence of age discrimination to rebut the employer’s proffered nondiscriminatory...

America last: Is Big Tech hiding jobs from US citizens to hire cheaper foreign labor from India and China?
Reports indicate that the American tech job market is slowing down significantly, making it increasingly more difficult for qualified individuals to find employment. However, a team of technology professionals contends that jobs are out there;...
Your next job interview might be with an AI bot. Here's how to ace it.
Employers are increasingly embracing artificial intelligence over human recruiters to screen potential job candidates. More than 8 in 10 companies use AI to review resumes, 40% employ AI chatbots to communicate with candidates, and roughly a...

GR223 Trail Closed Due to Fires in Jobourg
Jobourg, France – Following the wildfires that occurred on August 24 and 25, 2025, the town of La Hague has announced that a section of the GR223 trail, known as the Sentier des Douaniers, is closed until September 30, 2025. The closure affects...

CUF pledges decent jobs in 2025 election manifesto
Dar es Salaam. Opposition party Civic United Front (CUF) has pledged to tackle the unemployment crisis facing young people and women in Tanzania by creating five million jobs in its first five years in office if elected in 2025. According to the...

What’s the best way to allocate my first job earnings across savings, insurance, and investments?
I have recently started my first job with a take-home salary of Rs 50,000 per month. With company accommodation and insurance coverage for my family, my personal expenses are around Rs 5,000–8,000, and I remit Rs 10,000 to my parents, leaving...

Career catfishing: Why Gen Z is ghosting employers after job offers
Picture a recruiter waiting to hear back from a promising candidate. The interview went well, the offer letter is drafted, and HR is ready to welcome a new hire. Then silence. No replies to emails, no returned calls. Weeks pass, and the candidate...

Union Pacific moves to shift some North Platte train-crew jobs to Omaha area
UPDATED, Aug. 21, 2025, 1:45 pm: Rewrites to add official Union Pacific statement of jobs to be shifted and clarify union estimate of affected jobs. Union Pacific Railroad wants to change the official home base of 80 North Platte-based engineers...
This tech CEO once laid off 80% of his staff for not embracing AI fast enough — why he argues it was necessary
Anyone worried about AI and their job security would do well to heed the cautionary tale of IgniteTech, an enterprise software company. In early 2023, IgniteTech CEO Eric Vaughn dropped the hammer on nearly 80% of his workforce because they...
AI Wrestles Jobs from Gen Z Workers
Photo by Eric Prouzet via Unsplash Anything Gen Z can do, AI can do better … well, actually, only some things. A new Stanford study found that AI is stealing jobs, but only ones that are lower on the career ladder and only in certain fields. By...

Non-payment of dues to employee for seeking another job against principles of natural justice: Calcutta HC
Holding that looking for another job, even if with a rival company with better perks and facilities, is a basic right and does not constitute moral turpitude, the Calcutta High Court has held that non-payment of an employee's dues on such ground...

Non-payment of dues to employee for seeking another job against principles of natural justice: HC
Kolkata, Holding that looking for another job, even if with a rival company with better perks and facilities, is a basic right and does not constitute moral turpitude, the Calcutta High Court has held that non-payment of an employee's dues on such...

Tata Steel Disburses ₹303 Crore Bonus to Employees
- Advertisement - Tata Steel has announced a total bonus payout of ₹303.13 crore for its employees for the financial year 2024–25, following the signing of a memorandum of settlement with the Tata Workers’ Union (TWU) in Jamshedpur. The agreement...
Labor Day 2025: In CA, job market is shaky but unions are strong
Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer and the start of fall sports — and also a time to appreciate the hard work of those around you. With roots in the labor union movement that established the eight-hour workday, the holiday began in 1894 as...

Council worker who made almost £250,000 holding down four jobs at the same time is jailed for three years
By OLIVIA CHRISTIE, NEWS REPORTER Published: 05:28 EDT, 30 August 2025 | Updated: 07:28 EDT, 30 August 2025 A council employee who made nearly £250,000 by holding down four different jobs at multiple local authorities has been jailed for three...