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Temp Workers Could Get Equal Rights
News Plans are being drawn up by the European Commission to give temporary workers in the UK the same conditions as permanent employees. Meanwhile, John Monks, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said: "'Temporary workers in the UK face...
[February 21, 2002, 11:38]
HP Delays Raises And Cuts Temp Workers
News In an effort to cut costs and meet earnings estimates, Hewlett-Packard is asking managers to delay salary increases, cut back on using temporary workers, and encourage employees to take vacation time, sources close to the company said.
[December 22, 2000, 9:10]
Options To Extend The Duration Of Unemployment Insurance Benefits
White Papers The unemployment insurance (UI) program provides temporary income support to workers who lose their jobs. In most states, eligible unemployed workers can receive up to 26 weeks of benefits, funded by the states through payroll taxes on employers.
[June 24, 2005, 3:00]
US Report: Immigration Battle Looms For Hi-tech Staff
News The fear, according to Reinert, is that companies might replace full-time American workers with overseas workers brought in on H1-B visas to fill temporary jobs for which certain expensive benefits wouldn't be required.
[September 21, 1998, 7:57]
A Year Ago: Immigration Battle Looms For Hi-tech Staff
News The fear, according to Reinert, is that companies might replace full-time American workers with overseas workers brought in on H1-B visas to fill temporary jobs for which certain expensive benefits wouldn't be required.
[September 20, 1999, 7:00]
US Report: Immigration Battle Looms For Hi-tech Staff
News The fear, according to Reinert, is that companies might replace full-time American workers with overseas workers brought in on H1-B visas to fill temporary jobs for which certain expensive benefits wouldn't be required.
[September 22, 1998, 7:57]
Temp Staff Pose Biggest Security Risk
News A spokesman for PolicyMatter said in a statement: "With the majority of firms deploying policy through an employee handbook, or ad hoc hard copies, it's a good bet that most temporary workers are never made aware of the company's policies on...
[June 11, 2003, 15:17]
Human Resources Firm Chooses Live Meeting Over WebEx, Cuts Service Delivery Costs
White Papers The company calculated that delivering seminars as Web conferences would reduce the cost of serving customers in remote locations while providing options for displaced workers who lived far from temporary or permanent training centers.
[September 14, 2006, 0:00]
Bush Hints Door May Open For More Tech Workers
News He noted that temporary employment programmes for skilled workers already exist. He thinks that if the Bush proposal does include skilled temporary worker programmes, it "would include some provision to protect the wages and working conditions of...
[January 21, 2004, 13:59]
Tech Companies Try Cutting Costs - Without Layoffs
News The company is also reducing the number of temporary workers at its manufacturing facilities and cutting salaries for top executives by 5 percent to 10 percent, the report said. Tech companies, such as PC maker, Dell Computer, are also trying to...
[February 9, 2001, 10:31]
Dell Cuts Back On Temporary Staff, More Layoffs Expected
News Hewlett-Packard said last month that it will trim 2 percent of its staff, or about 1,770 workers. Dell had 16,200 workers in January 1998, 24,400 in January 1999 and 36,500 in January 2000, a representative said.
[February 9, 2001, 7:57]
HP Closes California Plant
News The 300 HP employees and 200 temporary workers at the Roseville manufacturing plant will have the opportunity to transfer to Houston and will be eligible for relocation assistance, the company said. Temporary workers who transfer to Houston will...
[January 31, 2003, 8:07]
Spherion Improves Employee Collaboration With IBM Knowledge Portal
White Papers Spherion is one of the world's largest temporary staffing organizations with a total of 310,000 workers including full-time employees and flexible personnel. Spherion's rapid growth had resulted in fragmented business processes that were preventing...
[September 13, 2004, 3:00]
Cole Harford Tackles E-mail Security Threats With IBM Express Managed Security Services For E-mail Security
White Papers Cole Harford, a wholesale provider of restaurant supplies, found that its operational efficiency was being compromised by the sheer volume of e-mail spam and viruses that its 25 full-time employees and additional temporary and part-time workers...
[November 17, 2006, 0:00]
Deploying 802.11B (Wi-Fi) In The Enterprise Network
White Papers With the growing availability of standardsbased b wireless network components, wireless networks are becoming a key element of the enterprise network.b networks enhance existing wired networks by providing convenient access to network resources...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
Cisco Network Admission Control: Help Customers Improve Security
White Papers This overview explains how organizations can use Cisco NAC to implement identity-based access control at the network level to protect valuable resources and assets; support guests and temporary workers; enforce security policies on all devices...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
Number Of Unemployed Who Have Gone Without Federal Benefits Hits Record 3 Million
White Papers The Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation (TEUC) program was created in March 2002 to provide additional weeks of federally funded unemployment benefits to jobless workers who have run out of regular, state-funded unemployment benefits but...
[May 20, 2005, 3:00]
Tablet PC On The Go: Scenarios For Powerful Mobile Computing
White Papers Their jobs may mandate moving from place to place, perhaps as supervisors on a manufacturing floor or as field-service or health-care workers. Many employees today are "information workers" who spend many hours a week conferring with colleagues in...
[August 14, 2003, 16:19]
The Evolution Of The Demand For Temporary Help Supply Employment In The United States
White Papers The increased use of individuals hired from THS firms is evident in the payroll data published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).There is, however, very scant direct evidence concerning the industry of assignment of THS workers.
[September 16, 2003, 5:06]
Measuring Temporary Labor Outsourcing In U.S. Manufacturing
White Papers In particular, temporary help supply (THS) employment as increased dramatically in the last ten years.In this paper we estimate a discrete choice model of whether a THS worker is actually working in the anufacturing sector using the Contingent...
[September 16, 2003, 5:23]
