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Is There a Career in Law That Doesn't Lead to Burnout?
Several new firms are trying to make one of the most brutal jobs a little more balanced.
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Five Signs Your Interview Is Fake Because They've Already Hired Someone
That’s dishonest and unethical, but it happens every day!
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Women seek pay rises as much as men - with less success
The theory that women get paid less than men because they are not sufficiently pushy in the workplace is not true, a new study suggests. Women are as likely as men to ask for a pay rise - but are less likely to get one, the research found. The study, by the Cass Business School and the universities of Warwick and Wisconsin, looked at 4,600 workers. It found "no support" for the "reticent female" theory, whereby women avoided asking for more money.
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The Unemployment Rate for College Grads with a Bachelor’s Degree Dropped to 2.3%
Not since May of 2008 has the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate for those holding a Bachelor’s degree been this low. At the current rate, we should see this dip under 2% by the middle of 2017. At least in terms of 4-year college graduates, the job market seems to be opening up significantly. As more degree holders become employed, the default and postponement rate for student loan and credit card payments should start dropping.
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Work - Riot Games: Assessing toxicity in the workplace
Riot Games, maker of the team-based video game League of Legends, wondered if in-game behavior could help predict workplace behavior.
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American Express will give all parents 20 weeks of paid leave
Having a family while working at American Express is about to get a lot better. Starting in January, the financial services giant will expand its paid parental leave policy for mothers and fathers to 20 weeks at full pay, plus another six to eight weeks for women who give birth and require medical leave. Full-time and part-time employees who have worked at Amex for at least a year are eligible.
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4 Home Depot workers in Palm Coast fired after helping nab suspected shoplifter
Four Home Depot employees in Palm Coast say they are shocked, saddened, and left wondering why they were fired this week after helping to recover almost $1,000 in stolen store merchandise. Jeffrey Miller, 59, of Palm Coast said he'd been working at the store on Garden Street for 10 years when he was fired Wednesday over a November incident in which he tried to help other employees stop a suspected shoplifter.
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Free Cash in Finland. Must Be Jobless.
Finland will soon hand out cash to 2,000 jobless people, free of bureaucracy or limits on side earnings. The idea, universal basic income, is gaining traction worldwide.
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Why the Coming Jobs Crisis Is Bigger Than You Think
The incoming Trump administration has made job creation a national priority. But here is a sobering prediction: No matter which political party holds the White House or Congress, over the next 25 years, 47% of jobs will likely be eliminated by technology and globalization, according to WorkingNation. It’s a phenomenon called “structural unemployment” and it affects nearly all industries and even white-collar workers. Venture capitalist Art Bilger founded WorkingNation to sound the alarm about the coming crisis and to spark discussions about potential solutions.
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Facing layoff at Carnival, IT employee makes bold counteroffer
In early December, Carnival Corp. told about 200 IT employees that the company was transferring their work to Capgemini, a large IT outsourcing firm. The employees had a choice: Either agree to take a job with the contractor or leave without severance.
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‘Routine’ Jobs Are Disappearing
“Routine” jobs are disappearing, with many workers instead taking lower-paying low-skill manual work or simply dropping out of the labor force, according to new research.
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L.A. is the bad jobs capital of the U.S.
The latest figures on Los Angeles County residents’ educational attainment might lead you to think that way too many of them don’t have enough schooling to get a job. Twenty-one percent of Angelenos over 25 have a high school diploma but nothing more, while 22% of them, according to the year-end survey by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., don’t even have that.
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Kroger hiring 10,000 for permanent positions
Kroger announced today that it will be hiring about 10,000 people at its stores this coming year. The permanent position will be in its supermarket divisions. The company also announced that its total active workforce grew by more than 12,000 associates in 2016. “Kroger’s growth trajectory continues to create opportunities for our people to advance their careers – and to do that in a fun, team environment with great benefits,” said Tim Massa, Kroger’s group vice president of human resources and labor relations.
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U.S. New Home Sales Fall; Weekly Jobless Claims Rise
New U.S. single-family home sales fell to a 10-month low in December after three straight months of solid gains, but the housing market recovery remains intact as a tightening labor market boosts wage growth.
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4 Ways in Which Work Stress Can Negatively Affect the Workforce
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Millennials May Be the First Generation to Lose a Majority of their Jobs to Automation
The consensus of most people who study labor automation is that the total number of jobs is not going to keep up with population growth as we have seen in the past – at minimum. However, job prospects will likely get a lot worse for those between the ages of 18-34 as time goes on, mainly because of the types of jobs that are easiest to automate.
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Congress votes to allow states to drug-test the unemployed
President Donald Trump is expected to sign off on a new law that will likely subject more unemployed Americans to drug tests before they can claim jobless benefits. The resolution — approved by the Senate on Tuesday after passing in the House in February — nixes a Labor Department regulation that limited how many unemployment-benefit applicants states could test for drugs. The old rule, implemented under former President Barack Obama, mandated that states could only test applicants if they were looking for work in jobs that require regular drug screenings.
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Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard
The Fourth Industrial Revolution could bring mass global unemployment. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he’s “not worried at all” about artificial intelligence replacing human workers because it's “50-100 more years” off. In reality, data shows this is already happening — with an estimated 38 percent of existing U.S. jobs at risk of being turned over to machines by 2030, according research from PwC. Another study put out by the University of Oxford last year had similar estimates: The researchers found that 47 percent of US jobs were at risk of automation in the next two decades.
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Trump's Treasury Secretary Says Increased Automation Is "Not Even on Our Radar"
During his campaign, now-President Donald Trump promised voters he would bring American jobs back from overseas. Now that he is in office, his administration has made job creation a central focus of its efforts. But what if those jobs overseas can’t come back to the United States because companies no longer need to hire humans to complete the tasks? How is the Trump administration gearing up to tackle the rise of automation?
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Sao Paulo judge rules Uber drivers are employees, deserve benefits
A judge in Brazil's biggest city ruled this week that a driver using the Uber ride-hailing app is an employee of the San-Francisco-based company, threatening its business model in one of its biggest markets. Uber said it would appeal the decision on Tuesday by Judge Eduardo Rockenbach Pires at the regional labor court in Sao Paulo, which was made public in recent days.
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