Don E. Sears

Amid expected job loss for contract and subcontract NASA workers in Florida, the Department of Labor announced it is providing a $15 million grant toward job assistance and transition services to 3,200 workers. The cause of the job loss is the impending retirement in November of the space shuttle program, which has been manning operational […]

Close to 80 percent of 800 companies polled in a new hiring survey are increasing jobs in the second half of 2010. Nearly half (49 percent) of employers and recruiters plan to increase their headcounts by 10 percent in the next six months, and 28 percent plan to hire between 11 percent and 20 percent […]

Hewlett-Packard plans to cut about 3 percent of its workforce, or about 9,000 jobs out of 304,000, as it restructures and consolidates its Enterprise Services business, invests more in cloud computing and automation, and updates its data centers, company representatives said in a conference call June 1 with analysts and stockholders. The company is taking […]

In response to ever-increasing worker suicides, Hon Hai Group, the owner of Foxconn, a technology and electronics manufacturing supplier to the giants of technology including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Sony, Dell and others, announced plans to raise wages of its workers 20 percent, according to Reuters. There have been 11 suicide attempts in 2010 at one facility […]

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. As eWEEK previously reported, eight workers have died at […]

In response to a recently published University of Maryland study, eWEEK interviewed Norman Matloff of the University of California, Davis, to get his perspective on the findings. The Maryland findings claim H-1B visa holders typically earn more in wages in the U.S. when you control for education level and several other factors. eWEEK interviewed the […]

The following question-and-answer interview seeks to get a better understanding of the findings and implications of the recently published report, “Are Foreign IT Workers Cheaper? U.S. Visa Policies and Compensation of Information Technology Professionals,” from the University of Maryland’s Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. A […]

April was one of the best months for full-time job opportunities for technology professionals in a long time, according to a monthly report on job vacancies and trends from technology job board Dice.com. Full-time tech jobs were up 20 percent from March and outnumbering contract positions posted on the site by over 13,000. Contract positions […]

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 employment laws” and provides a glossary of frequently used terms […]

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