employment | employment
May.25.2011
I read Ross Perlin's recent editorial in The New York Times, "Unpaid Interns, Complicit Colleges," with great interest and not a small bit of dismay. As an employment lawyer who has represented employees for 25 years, I wasn't surprised to see that so many for-profit employers...
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May.12.2011
I did another guest post on AOL Jobs. This is what it was about:
Most people assume their emails at work are private. Those people are wrong. There are very few laws that protect you from email snooping at work, and most are pretty worthless and weak. That means you should assume your employer...
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Jan.10.2011
My absence from blogging on this site is due to matters of the heart and distractions of the mind, body and spirit. I may yet decide to go into details of why I have not posted anything here in red room since last week. Then again, I may not. Meanwhile, I reconcile my brief departure from blogging...
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Dec.07.2010
As "Not Quite Adults" wraps up, I've been working on a new book with Maria Kefalas and her husband Pat Carr--what we're calling Generation-R (for recession)(Thank you Steven Greenhouse). They and a team of sociologists are interviewing young people from the Philadelphia area (see more...
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Jul.23.2010
Chew On This: Time Out New York Seeks New Eat Out WriterBy Nadine Cheung on Jul 21, 2010 10:50 AM
Are you hungry for a new gig? Time Out New York is looking for new Eat Out writer to report on restaurant and bar openings; research and write feature stories; and prepare impromptu blog posts for the...
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Jul.13.2010
I am so very glad the first decade of this century is finally over! I suggest we all have a glass of Chardonnay and celebrate the fact we have made it to the mid-way point of 2010! I guess I should consider myself a bit lucky, I hit the holy trifecta of shit storms this past decade. Job loss. Job...
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Mar.05.2010
I have just updated my free report on 4 Steps to Getting the Job You Want. This report gives you a real edge. Download it here:
4 Steps to Getting the Job You Want
Plus I have lots more jobsearch resources here, including audios, articles and lots more:
Onlne Jobsearch Resources
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Jan.18.2010
I'm jealous of Barbie.
It's not her wardrobe, fabulous as it is, or her plastic curves. ( I'd be scared I'd tip over.) And it's most definitely not her perpetual boyfriend. (Barb, trust me, Ken is not marriage material.)
No, it's Barbie's resume. She's had 130 jobs by some count including...
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Nov.21.2009
Georgia is among 28 states considered to be a right to work state, which really means your employer has free rein to fire you without concern of a backlash from unions, lower wages and benefits, diminished standards of living, and no job security. In a sense this translates into fear among...
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Sep.22.2009
Coming home from work today, with more bad news lingering in the air, I wondered how the media can compare what is going on now to "The Great Depression." If the unemployment rate never got higher than a certain percentage and we are coming nearer to that number -- big deal! There are...
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