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H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment

H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatmentWell, Duh.....Anyone working in the tech field can provide many examples of this activity. The financial services company where I work is almost completely outsourced to Indian vendor company workers, over here on H-1B's. Additionally, many of us here have trained the very people...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Litigation, Outsourcing, H-1B, worker mistreatment, mistreatment, job, worker, fraud

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

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News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who’s buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

H-1B visas rife with fraud, worker mistreatment

Thirteen percent of petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of employers are fraudulent. That's the conclusion of a report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, BusinessWeek reports. A key part of the fraud is loopholes that allow...

Tags: Visa, Loophole, Worker, Fraud, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Watching brain cells in action

Watching brain cells in actionDisgusting mistreatment of animals.The researchers should be wearing these microsocopes on their own heads.Thanks, Roland, for this fascinating story !And thanks, too, [b][i]ZDNet[/i][/b] for giving Roland a platform from which to educate us !...Henri

Tags: Roland

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Apple sued for ... slavery?!?!!

Apple sued for ... slavery?!?!!You SUE for slavery?Huh.I did not know that. I would have thought criminal charges for such an act would be more appropriate.I have a question, though. If he disliked the arrangement so much...why didn't he just quit? Some people will sue over anything.RE:...

Tags: Apple Inc., overtime

Discussion threads 2008-08-07

Poll: Would a MicroAOL be better than a MicroHoo?

Poll: Would a MicroAOL be better than a MicroHoo?Microsoft tried to buy AOL...... and Steve Case turned down Bill Gates. He wanted to buy Time Warner and own a movie studio instead. (Anachronism alert.)But in this case Microsoft buying AOL makes more sense. Time Warner can throw...

Tags: America Online Inc., MicroAOL, Microsoft Corp., Microhoo

Discussion threads 2008-07-16

diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?

diversITy: can being gay hold your career back?thank uGood article and great research. Somthing different from usual posts. It is very sad that not all people are treated the same at work.Free will...Orientation may or may not exist in terms of genetic factors, but that does not take away the...

Tags: Professional development, career

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?

Today's Debate: How deep should electronic health records be?If any proof were neededthat this is the next big land rush, with enormous amounts of money at stake, this is it. Aside from sports [1], the only reason ASU ever does [b]anything[/b] is if the Administration sees boatloads of money...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Michael Crow, ASU, electronic health record, e-health

Discussion threads 2007-10-01

More hard to believe details of HP's witchhunt emerge (and spyware tactic deemed legal)

More hard to believe details of HP's witchhunt emerge and spyware tactic deemed legalHP SpiesSo what, principals of high schools where I've taught do this kind of activity all the time. In fact, principals get teachers to spy on other teachers. If all of you knew the reality...

Tags: E-mail, Hewlett-Packard Co., principal, spyware

Discussion threads 2006-09-20

Taiwan firm drops China iPod libel case

Taiwan firm drops China iPod libel caseApple does a great job of looking into matters .It would seem as someone is out to tarnish her . Next agenda , the drivers for the wireless MacBookPro incident ?"In a world without walls and fences , who needs windows and gates."Sure they...

Tags: Construction, China iPod

Discussion threads 2006-09-03

Microsoft sues nine MAPS partners

Microsoft sues nine MAPS partnersJust do what I do...I buy everything directly from Microsoft. My rep and I signed an agreement where we buy everything direct. We receive no discounts and actually pay a premium. Why do we do it? Because my rep told me it was the best way...

Tags: Retail, PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., MAPS partner

Discussion threads 2005-12-15

Bloggers narrowly dodge federal crackdown

Bloggers narrowly dodge federal crackdownGood and badThe good"Political bloggers and other online commentators narrowly avoided being slammed with a sweeping set of Internet regulations this week."The bad http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=52411"The first is that the campaign finance laws compel the FEC to regulate speech that is made in coordination with a candidate...

Tags: Government, INTERNET, Blogging, Regulations, RFID, U.S. Congress, finance law, Rome

Discussion threads 2005-03-24

Staffing and Routing in a Two-Tier Call Center

This paper studies service systems with gatekeepers who diagnose a customer problem and then either refer the customer to an expert or attempt treatment. The probability of successful treatment by a gatekeeper decreases as the problem's complexity increases. The authors determine the optimal staffing levels and referral rates that minimize...

Tags: Staffing, University Of Rochester

White papers 2005-02-21

IBM to invest $100 million in Linux push

IBM to invest $100 million in Linux pushThis is exactly what is neededIn a way this is a double stroke for IBM:1 - They finally can take a whack at Microsoft and start to errode their dominance on the corporate desktop, which in time will translate to home desktops. So...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, IBM Corp., Linux, desktop

Discussion threads 2005-02-17