At-will employment

industry, freelancers constantly face issues of insecurity and uncertainty of employment. In this essay I will be discussing the implications of the rise of popularity in the freelance industry and core concepts that freelancers take in to secure employment. Firstly, immaterial labour is a prominent concept that freelancers have to carry out as a form of socialisation to develop contacts and networks to ensure employment. Secondly, the ability to craft their own identity to be different from…

In this study, Allegretto et al (2011), discusses the effects minimum wage has on teen employment and the timing of minimum wage increase during various business cycles and the anticipation of wage increases across geographical locations. The constructs of the study are teen earnings, hours and employment. The researchers compared the constructs with data and control for state and year fixed effect variables. Additionally, the authors examined…

KEYS Job Centre “delivers a wide range of employment programs to meet the needs of their clients. These programs are funded and supported by various levels of government including: Ontario Ministry Of Training, Colleges and Universities (Employment Ontario), Service Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Ministry of Education.” (Keys/Services,2015) “In the twelve months to January, employment increased by 0.7% (+126,000). Over the same period,…

Positive discrimination Solution to gender inequalities in employment 620198H Keito Takano Introduction Around the world, it cannot be said that equality in society has been fully achieved. There are various inequalities, but gender inequality is one of the largest problems. A lot of attempts to correct inequality have been done, but positive discrimination is one of the most effective means. Positive discrimination is the practice or policy of favoring individuals belonging to groups which…

various legislations, regulations and companies’ own policies. First of all Data Protection Act 1998 has specific requirement in terms of recruitment and selection process. The Act requires the information collected from applicants are relevant to employment and the information need to be treated as confidential which only the accessible to who are relevant (home manager, Human resource etc.). In addition all information about candidate need to make available for them to access at their…

Review of Jayati Ghosh’s book “Never Done and Poorly Paid” Divya Mehrotra MA Women’s Studies Tata Institute of Social Sciences 28/03/2015 Inroduction: Issues of labour and employment have been core areas of concern for most economists around the world. The following paper consists of a review of the book titled Never Done and Poorly Paid: Women’s Work in Globalising India written by Jayati Ghosh which was published in 2009 by Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for women, New…

being a trooper is the most respectable employment any one could ever have. Your military resume help to pass on a message that will make enrollment specialists and bosses need to call you when they interpret your resume. Your resume ought to be a windshield archive. That is, it ought to mirror the positions you're going towards. It ought to contain catchphrases, which sites, for example, wordle that can offer you some assistance with identifying in both employment declarations and your resume.…

Background checks have been used for years. Some people think that it is unfair and others think that it is the best idea to hit the United States since car radios. But whether people like the idea or not. Background checks will never go away, no matter how hard the society tries to remove it. What some people do not know is that they used to not be this strict. You can blame the recent terrorists for that problem. Background checks are important to this country because they provide…

Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes (Civil Rights Act of 1964). Furthermore SEC. 2000e-2. [Section 703] States it is unlawful to refuse employment or to fire anyone or to discriminate against persons with any respect to their “compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of an individual’s race, color, sex, or national origin (eeoc. n.d.). When it comes…

As parents we should want to check on our children from time to time, whether this means looking at their text messages, or even taking a peek at their social media pages. Imagine logging into Facebook, to look at your sixteen year old daughter’s timeline. Everything seems to be normal, but as you scroll down you see she has posted a selfie. Imagine that she has only one comment, which is from her gym teacher Mr. Williams who wrote “This is sexy”. As any parent would, the next day you bring this…