Advocates say that a guaranteed basic income can lead to more creative, fulfilling work. The question is how to fund it.

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–New York City bans the running of credit checks on job applicants http://www.thenation.com/blog/204713/new-york-city-just-outlawed-running-credit-checks-job-applicants

DevOps is a hot field and there are plenty of opportunities out there—but not all DevOps jobs and departments are created equal. At Incapsula, we work closely with DevOps teams responsible for the security, speed, and availability of our clients’ websites and SaaS applications. In daily dealings with these professionals, we noticed that “DevOps” means different things to different people—and that major variations exist in job titles and functions across organizations.

Employers’ bargaining power and practices, and the forces of automation and globalization — a double whammy — are sending salaries sinking.

By his own telling, the first time Walter L. Scott went to jail for failure to pay child support, it sent his life into a tailspin. He lost what he called “the best job I ever had” when he spent two weeks in jail. Some years he paid. More recently, he had not. Two years ago, when his debt reached nearly $8,000 and he missed a court date, a warrant was issued for his arrest. By last month, the amount had more than doubled, to just over $18,000.

It is essential for a successful state economy to have a diverse array of employers. But the company that employs the most people in a state can have a disproportionately large impact on its economy and even influence an entire region.

It’s now possible to sell a new product to hundreds of millions of people without needing many, if any, workers to produce or distribute it. At its prime in 1988, Kodak, the iconic American photography company, had 145,000 employees. In 2012, Kodak filed for bankruptcy. The same year Kodak went under, Instagram, the world’s newest photo company, had 13 employees serving 30 million customers.

Carolina Figueroa works at a T-Mobile call center in Albuquerque, N.M., in the bilingual retention section, trying to talk Spanish-speaking customers out of canceling their accounts. She likes her job, and the pay is decent — $18.50 an hour after eight years working there, plus health coverage, which covers the bills for her and her young daughter.

We hear about the superior tech savvy of people born after 1980 so often that we tend to assume it must be true. But is it? Researchers at Princeton-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) expected it to be when they administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Sponsored by the OECD, the test was designed to measure the job skills of adults, aged 16 to 65, in 23 countries.

Last week was the first ever National Adjunct Walkout Day, a grassroots protest to push for fair pay and better working conditions. Protests and teach-ins took place on as many as 100 campuses nationwide, prompting at least one university to create a task force to address labor concerns. It’s little wonder that a national movement has sprung up around the adjunct system, which offers little or no job security or access to benefits and significantly lower wages than regular faculty.

One former adjunct describes a system that's untenable.

In another advance for organized labor in Silicon Valley, the shuttle drivers who transport employees for companies such as Apple, eBay and Yahoo opted Friday to unionize. By a vote of 104-38, the drivers who work for Compass Transportation — which has contracts with Amtrak, Apple, eBay, Genentech, Yahoo and Zynga — approved representation by Teamsters Local 853. Overall, there are nearly 160 drivers.

The Obama administration is expected to move forward soon on its plan to provide overtime pay protections to low-salaried managers who don't qualify for them. The move could affect millions of workers. It is aimed at addressing what the White House says is an erosion of the rules that established the 40-hour workweek -- a "linchpin of the middle class."

Many of us wake in the mornings to a dreaded alarm clock. After breakfast, we jump into our cars, battle traffic, and start a tiring 9 to 5 at work. Then we come home, turn on the tube, sip a beverage, and mostly veg. We do that all week long, waiting for the weekend when we might actually get time to travel somewhere, enjoy a hobby, or complete a fun project. Then we repeat, and it's only broken up by our measly two-week vacation. The American Dream is not so much a pilgrimage anymore...

This gif is the kind of imagery that gets our attention and gets us all wondering about what is going to happen to the people who did these jobs now being done by robots. There are a lot of people wondering about the answer to this question, and drawing conclusions like 47% of all current jobs are at risk of being automated within 20 years. It's also possible such estimates are conservative because according to this recent report, the work being done by robots is actually growing faster than...

The song remains the same: Economists forecast another 200,000-plus increase in new jobs in January to mark that 12th straight month that’s happened. And unemployment is seen drifting down to 5.5% from 5.6%.

Compare job search websites like oDesk vs Elance vs Freelancer vs PPH and find out where to best look for graphic design and programming jobs as an expert!

As London residents made their way into the tube for their Monday morning commute after the holiday vacation where they were confronted with tube advertisements designed by Strike! Magazine. The simple black and yellow ads featured slogans by David Graeber from his 2013 essay “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.”

Even in India, where government jobs are considered to be for life, A.K. Verma was pushing it. Verma, an executive engineer at the Central Public Works Department, was fired after last appearing for work in December 1990. "He went on seeking extension of leave, which was not sanctioned, and defied directions to report to work," the government said in a statement Thursday. Even after an inquiry found him guilty of "willful absence from duty" in 1992, it took another 22 years...