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- U.N. Global Compact Delists 630 Companies
- What do Tyco Services, Huatai Group, Ford Malaysia, L'Oreal Argentina, Barclay's Bank of Ghana and The Ethical Investment Company of Australia all have in common? Each is among the 630 companies the United Nations Global Compact has booted off of its worldwide list of participants for failure to submit a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- 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
- 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
- Comcast-NBCU: How Comcast Is Pitching The Deal To DC
- The effort to win regulatory approval for Comcast’s acquisition of 51 percent of NBCU kicked into gear with the deal’s announcement, starting with a five-page memo from Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) EVP David Cohen laying out the “public interest commitments” the company will make to the Federal Communications Commission. That...
- External links 2009-12-03
- 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
- The Legal Framework for Collective Bargaining in Developing Economies
- This paper addresses the issue of law process pertaining to labor unions and collective bargains. The paper describes the activities of unions and reviews the research designed to measure the consequences of unionism. The context of this review is a developing country, which, by its very nature, cannot sustain as...
- White papers 1996-06-01
- Time Sensitive, Specific and Successful
- The case study pertains to a Fortune 500 company that had been struggling to fill a newly created HR leadership role to lead transformation from a transactional and non-valued HR function to a high performance, strategic HR function. For several months, numerous internal as well as external candidates had been...
- Case studies 2002-01-01
- 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
- Promoting gender equality through collective bargaining
- We cannot rely on legislation to achieve and protect equality issues. Collective bargaining is a much more effective mechanism for ensuring that these rights exist. Although there have been major achievements made in equality issues in the past, downsizing and reorganization are taking a toll, impacting on the lives of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Case Study: Labor Market Intermediaries In California's Silicon Valley
- Research on Silicon Valley suggests that Labor Market Intermediaries LMIs organizations that acts as a third party brokering relationships between job seekers and employers are key to the way corporations work in the new economy. Corporations are increasingly outsourcing their human resource needs and relying on contingent workers. Some...
- Case studies 2001-04-01
- Collective Bargaining In The IT Industry
- "The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia APESMA and the Information Technology Professional Association ITPA, formed for IT people who are members of APESMA, have been working to represent IT people and to cover them in various ways, by helping with contract arrangements and in collective bargaining situations....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Official Time
- An employee representing a union is entitled to official time for representational purposes including while negotiating a collective bargaining agreement during the time the employee otherwise would be in a duty status. The entitlement extends to time expended in proceedings designed to resolve an impasse in negotiations.
- White papers 1998-11-18
- Can "Reverse Discrimination" Exist Under the ADEA?
- Does an employer violate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ADEA by entering into a collective bargaining agreement providing retiree health benefits only to workers who had reached age 50 by a certain date? The U.S. Supreme Court recently agreed to hear such a case during its 2003-2004 term. More...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Labor Standards : Where do They Belong on the International Trade Agenda?
- Recently, universal labor standards have become the focus of intense international debate. This paper analyzes the arguments concerning the value of coordinating labor standards internationally, the arena in which international labor standards ought to be established and the instruments that can be used constructively to bring about compliance. It...
- White papers 2001-08-17
- The International Organization and Enforcement of Labor Standards
- What action should be taken by international community with regard to labor standards, how should this action be organized, and by what means should it be enforced? The purpose of this paper is to provide answers to these three questions. Taking the perspective of economic theory, the paper describes here...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Recent Legislative Developments in New York in Labor and Employment Law
- In a flurry of legislative activity not seen for many years, New York State, New York City, and New York's Westchester County have recently enacted a number of new labor and employment statutes, as well as many amendments to various existing laws governing the workplace. This new legislation is far-reaching,...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- 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
- Foundations Of Public Outsourcing
- Public and private decision makers' conceptions about public-private partnerships have dramatically changed lately. New economic theories enable the analysis of organizational or institutional designs in contexts where there exist: complex interrelationships, information structures, and to enhance performance. Some of the advantages of this are savings, access to specific expertise, and...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
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