Dimple-cheeked Victoria’s Secret beauty Miranda Kerr has gone into labor with her first child with hubby Orlando Bloom — just a few days after her paternal grandparents lost their home and barely escaped with their lives about a blazing inferno engulfed their Australian home. A family insider, who asked not to be identified, spilled the [...]
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IT Professionals Labor Market Stagnating, Report Finds
December 7th, 2010 |
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Volatility remains the dominant trend right now for IT skills as well as jobs, a Foote Partners report finds. – U.S. employment numbers released by the Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed a net gain of 4,400 IT-related jobs in November for the sixth straight month of net jobs gains in IT labor segments. Five bellweather IT job segments in the BLS data showed a net gain of 45,100 job…
John Travolta Jets Home As Kelly Preston Goes Into Labor
November 14th, 2010 |
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John Travolta is making a mad dash back to the Sunny State of Florida after a shortlived trip Australia. It’s the actor’s last ditch effort to be with pregnant wife Kelly Preston, 47, who went into labor with the couple’s third child on Saturday — three weeks ahead of schedule! John had been Down Under [...]
STI may open tad lower after Mon’s new 2010 high
September 7th, 2010 |
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With no leads from Wall Street overnight as US markets shut for Labor Day holiday, early trading in Singapore shares may be lighter than usual, with players expected to take cues from other Asian bourses as session progresses, says Dow Jones.
After closing at highest level this year yesterday, +1.1% at 3,034.58, STI may open tad lower on profit-taking, though more upside still possible in near term. Support at 3,000, resistance at 3,085 (lower end of breakdown gap formed June 9, 2008).
Labor Day Videos
September 6th, 2010 |
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WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE AND HAVE A COLD ONE WITH PALS!
We have President Grover Cleveland to thank for making today a national holiday in the United States. The catalyst, as with many positive changes in U.S. history, involved bloodshed – the deaths of workers during the infamous Pullman Strike – but few things worth having happen without some loss. Now, Labor Day marks the beginning of football season and a long weekend for (some) laborers nationwide. Without getting all heavy on you, we thought we’d offer some tunes about work and a tiny encouragement to pause and reflect on those still struggling to get a day of rest and fair treatment in their labors. (Dennis Cook)
Here’s the man who wrote the tune Tennessee Ernie Ford made so famous to get us started.
We time travel back to 1982 for Huey Lewis and the News backed by the Tower of Power horns.
Fans of the Drew Carey Show will know this one. Such a nifty sway!
Perhaps forgotten by anyone outside of the U.K. and hardcore 80s music nuts, this is a quality rocker for the blue collar set from a band that never quite got their critical due.
Johnny Paycheck may have gotten the big hit but this is the man who penned this classic.
Beatles’ covers don’t come any sillier than this.
No way we could skip BTO in our little Labor Day song cycle.
Workers around the world have been singing “The Internationale” since it was composed in the late 1800s. It is sung in many languages but means the same thing the world over – a cry for justice and equality and fairness. There are many, many variations on the basic tune & lyric, and here’s a couple fine takes.
Minister: Sandžak not crisis hotbed
September 5th, 2010 |
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Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajić said that Sandžak is not turning into a “crisis hotbed” that could destabilize the country and the region. However, he did not exclude the chance of potential incidents caused by the inflammatory rhetoric of Muamer Zukorlić, leader of the Islamic Community in Serbia, in his effort to score cheap political points.
Michael Dell Under Fire From AFL-CIO
August 5th, 2010 |
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Labor unions, including the AFL-CIO, are asking Dell shareholders to withhold support of Michael Dell as a company director because of the companys $100 million SEC settlement and Dells compensation. – Dell CEO Michael Dell may face some opposition when the companys shareholders meeting Aug. 12.
Labor unions, upset about the companys $100 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission July 22 over accounting irregularities and Michael Dells pay over the past decade, sent an electr…
Rudd on the tracks
June 24th, 2010 |
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Losing popularity, the Labor Party ditches its leader
LESS than a year ago Kevin Rudd rode high as one of Australia’s most successful prime ministers. Suddenly, his spectacular career has come to a crashing end. With his rating in the opinion polls sliding disastrously, and a federal election due soon, a panicked ruling Labor Party on June 24th dumped Mr Rudd as leader. They replaced him with Julia Gillard, his deputy. She will give a country once branded as a bastion of male chauvinism its first female prime minister.
As his support crumbled among Labor’s 115 federal parliamentarians, Mr Rudd had declared defiantly the previous evening that he would fight a leadership challenge from Ms Gillard. But the coup turned out to be bloodless. Faced with a humiliating defeat, when the moment came Mr Rudd stood aside. His colleagues elected Ms Gillard unanimously. Wayne Swan, the treasurer, will take over as deputy prime minister. …
Black Crowes, Wilco, Skynyrd for Labor Day Fest
June 18th, 2010 |
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GLENN FREY, JOE WALSH, CALEXICO, DEVOTCHKA ALSO CONFIRMED
 The Black Crowes |
Jazz Aspen has confirmed The Black
Crowes, Wilco,
Glenn Frey and Joe
Walsh of The Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Calexico, and DeVotchka for the Jazz Aspen
Snowmass Labor Day Festival.
The three-day festival is set for Snowmass Town Park, Sept. 3-5. Tickets for all three days go on sale Friday, June 18,
at the Belly Up Aspen box office, online at jazzaspen.org, or by
phone at 1-866-JAS-TIXX (527-8499). A three-day festival pass will be available for $175 through July 4 only.
Reaping the Fruits of Labor with Peachtree Premium Posted By : Gina Williams
June 8th, 2010 |
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Many business owners today have acquired a renewed focus on the accounting aspect of the business simply because accurate accounting often leads to more reliable reports and business forecasts.
Deaths of Tech Factory Workers in China Reflect Poor Labor Conditions
May 28th, 2010 |
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Are technology companies such as Apple, Microsoft, HP and Dell being honest about their knowledge of working conditions for young, migrant Chinese workers who manufacture and supply their products to a global customer base? The presumed suicides of eight workers in one factory in 2010 have labor rights groups up in arms about the role technology companies should be playing to shape working conditions and wages for Chinese workers. – A recent spate of deaths of workers employed by Foxconn a
major technology manufacturer and supplier to Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell,
Sony and others is drawing the ire of labor watch groups that find the living
and working conditions of Chinese factory workers to be tantamount to slave
labor. A…
Interactive H-1B Site Educates on Visa Compliance
May 20th, 2010 |
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A new U.S. Department of Labor Website supplies information on the laws and regulations relevant to H-1B visa holders and H-1B visa-holding companies. While much of the material has been available for several years, the information should now be more accessible. – The U.S. Department of Labor has launched a Website that
seeks to educate companies about the laws, regulations and policies that apply
to H-1B visa holders. The Elaws H-1B Advisor was designed to help
employees and employers understand their rights and responsibilities under
numerous federal e…
IT Sector Shows Big Job Gains in April, Report Finds
May 10th, 2010 |
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s IT sector employment report for April found the IT industry adding a net gain of 8,800 jobs, reversing job losses in March.
– U.S. employment numbers released last week by the Department of Labors
Bureau of Labor Statistics found despite continued volatility in many IT
employment segments, the largest net monthly job gain in IT-related jobs
recorded since the Wall Street financial crisis was realized in April, IT labor
…
Microsoft Will Investigate ‘Prisoner’ Conditions at Chinese Factory
April 15th, 2010 |
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Microsoft claims that it will investigate the alleged labor violations at the KYE factory in China’s Dongguan City, after an April 13 report by the National Labor Committee, a nonprofit NGO. That report suggests that workers producing Microsoft PC cameras and mice are subjected to excessive working hours, poor pay, restricted freedom of movement, harassment by guards, and substandard living conditions. Although Microsoft claims that it uses vigorous auditing to its vendors’ working conditions, the report suggests that these conditions at the KYE factory have endured for some time.
– Microsoft has promised to investigate allegations of massive
labor violations at a Chinese factory building its products, as
detailed in an
April 13 report by the National Labor Committee, a nonprofit
non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to drawing attention to
labor and
human rights …
“670,000 people going hungry in Serbia”
April 7th, 2010 |
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Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić says that 9.2 percent of the population, or 670,000 citizens, are “going hungry”. There the people who live below the poverty line, with monthly incomes of less than RSD 8,300, je said.
11 Tech Companies ‘Willfully’ Violating H-1B Laws
March 18th, 2010 |
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There are currently 21 companies that have been debarred by the U.S. Department of Labors Wage and Hour Division as being willful violators of laws that regulate the use of H-1B visas for foreign workers. Here, eWEEK looks at 11 different technology or IT-related companies that are on the Labor Departments list, including a look at the companies locations and periods of debarment. During the debarment period, these companies are not allowed to apply for or obtain H-1B visas for foreign workers. These IT companies have committed either a willful failure or a misrepresentation of a material fact, according to Labor Department statistics. One company that faces additional sanctions is Peri Software Solutions, which currently owes $1.4 million in back wages. Right now, Peri Softwares petition is under review by the Labor Department.
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Ljajić: Regionalization not political issue
January 12th, 2010 |
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Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić believes that the government will agree to make all Sandžak municipalities a part of one statistical region. He stated that this was not a political but technical issue which could the jeopardize survival of ruling coalition.
Singapore labor market sentiment improving, Trade Minister says
January 11th, 2010 |
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Singapore’s labor-market sentiment is improving and the job market has stabilized even as the jobless rate is expected to stay up for some time, Trade Minister Lim Hng Kiang said today.
Labor minister against MP retirement plans
January 8th, 2010 |
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Rasim Ljajić hopes that a proposal allowing MPs to retire aged 55, with 15 years of service and three mandates will not be in the final version of the law. “I cannot believe this… Instead of reforming the pension fund and cutting down the number of MPs we are doing completely the opposite. While the government is working on decreasing the possibility of early retirement, completely opposite things are proposed here,†Serbia’s labor minister commented for Belgrade daily Politika.
“Elections unlikely, but possible”
January 5th, 2010 |
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Labor Minister Rasim Ljajić said that he “does not see anything” that could lead to early parliamentary elections being held in 2010 in Serbia. However, he said that he would “not be surprised if elections were held after all”.