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- Grow Your Own Workforce
- With skill shortages hitting many sectors of the workplace, it's no wonder that managers are having difficulty expanding their teams. But who says talent has to come from the outside? Workforce Management recently profiled one company that implemented an innovative and successful effort to grow its own talent instead. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Why Bill Gates Is Wrong on H-1B Visas
- This is an extremely complicated issue, and it's been around for years, but let's talk some common sense about H-1B visas. Bill Gates went before Congress this week to try to make it easier for companies to hire foreign tech workers, using this visa status. Essentially, companies can bring in...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Debunking the IT Shortage Myth
- While Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are lobbying Congress to increase the number of H-1B temporary worker visas so they can meet what they describe as a shortage of skilled technology workers, many skilled technology workers who are already in the U.S. are reporting having trouble finding jobs. InformationWeek recently explored...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- Record High Demand for H-1B Visas in FY2001
- U.S. companies to temporarily hire skilled foreign workers to fill positions in the U.S. when qualified domestic workers are unavailable use the H-1B visa. A majority of H-1B holders are employed in computer- and engineering-related professions. As long as there is job creation in areas that require technical skills, there...
- White papers 2002-03-08
- One-way ticket home
- Layoff is a word that every employee dreads. But for foreign workers living in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, it is very difficult for them to do work.They have to pack up their belongings and return to their homelands. The H-1B visa program was designed to bring foreign workers...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Business Transitions and H-1Bs
- Key international high-tech workers on H-1B visa status can be lost in rapid business transitions if they are not carefully protected. Transitions affect H-1B status because it is neither automatically transferable in a restructure nor easily redirected to new work within a company without prior approval.
- White papers 2003-05-02
- Visa Limits Fuel Frustration in Efforts to Fill High-Skill Jobs
- When U.S. recruiters go out to buy technical talent, they shop in domestic markets that are highly protected by restrictive immigration policies, voluminous and ever-changing rules and a cumbersome visa process. The prime example of this regulatory nightmare is the H-1B visa program. Because bringing in an employee under an...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- H-1B Visas Remain Sore Point for All Sides
- For the fifth year in a row, the federal limit on H-1B visas has been reached before the government's fiscal year even begins. This time, the cap was reached nearly six months before the federal 2009 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1. It took only one week...
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Tech Roundup: Entellium Arrests, Verizon Support, H-1B Fraud, More
- FBI arrests Entellium CEO, CFO -- The FBI arrested Entellium's CEO Paul Thomas Johnson and CFO Parrish Jones for allegedly falsifying revenue figures and presenting them to the board as part of a scheme to get about $50 million invested in the company. Last month an employee cleaning out the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Pfizer Worries Spur Probe Into Use of Immigrant Workers
- After noting a trend at Pfizer's Groton and New London, Conn., R&D campuses, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., said he will call for a Congressional probe into whether American companies are abusing the H-1B visa process to bring foreign workers to the U.S. in an attempt to displace locally contracted...
- Blog posts 2008-12-07
- Pfizer Donated to Senators Who Supported H-1B Visa Expansion
- Pfizer donated tens of thousands of dollars to Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and those senators supported an expansion of the H-1B visa program that allows foreign workers to be brought to the US to do technical jobs, according to New London's The Day. Coincidentally, Pfizer has...
- Blog posts 2008-12-15
- Investing in the Innovation Economy
- Harvard Business School professor Bill George has a Santa's Wish List for incoming President Barack Obama. You won't find a 3G iPhone or a Wii Fit on the list, but there are seven ideas that George believes can get the economy going again. The idea is to...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Reverse Brain Drain: Is It a Threat?
- The Find: An extended interview with two experts reveals the increasing number of highly skills immigrants who are returning to their home countries and discusses whether the phenomenon represents a threat to U.S. business. The Source: A WorldFocus internet radio interview of Vivek Wadhwa, a senior research...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- The Rise of Protectionism
- The voices of ignorance ("Buy American") and prejudice ("Limit visas") have grown predictably louder during the current crisis. Fortunately, reason and the forces of globalization have managed to prevail. So far. Buy American Take the Buy American provisions. In the original House...
- Articles 2009-04-15
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- Continental Airlines Names Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Labor Relations
- HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 26, 1996--Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAI.B and CAI.A) announced today that Michael H. Campbell will join the company as Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Labor Relations. Campbell joins Continental on Jan. 1 and is a partner with Ford & Harrison, a national law firm specializing in...
- Research articles 1996-12-26
- Ford & Harrison Launches F&H Solutions Group
- ATLANTA -- Ford & Harrison, a national employment and labor law firm, today announced it has launched a new human resources consulting subsidiary to complement the services of its law practice. F&H Solutions Group will provide comprehensive human resources and labor relations solutions to address business and organizational needs.
- Research articles 2006-05-09
- United gets OK from judge to cut workers' pay
- A bankruptcy judge Monday allowed United Airlines to impose an immediate temporary pay cut on its mechanics and approved negotiated cuts for pilots and flight attendants. The ruling in Chicago by Judge Eugene Wedoff is expected to save the struggling airline $60 million a month, but complicate its already...
- Research articles 2005-02-01
- AFC Enterprises, Inc. F1Q08 (Qtr End 4/20/08) Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call Excerpt AFC Enterprises, Inc. AFCE F1Q08 Earnings Call May 29, 2008 9:00 am ET Executives Cheryl A. Bachelder – Chief Executive Officer, Director & President H. Melville Hope, III – Chief Financial Officer Cheryl Fletcher – Direct of Finance and Investor Relations Analysts Michael...
- Earnings calls 2008-05-29
- From the Outside In: World War II and the American State.(Review)
- From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi, 354. $45.00.) Bartholomew H. Sparrow is a political scientist, not a historian. The difference shows. Instead of drawing generalizations from the ...
- Research articles 1999-03-22
- Letter Carriers Union Seeks 'Fair' Wage Increase in Negotiations with Postal Service; Young Optimistic in Reaching a Settlement
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The head of the National Association of Letter Carriers urged the U.S. Postal Service today at the opening of contract negotiations to build on an improved labor relations climate and reward letter carriers with a "fair" wage increase and continued benefits for helping it...
- Research articles 2006-08-28
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