Questions tagged [employment]
A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct the employee in the material details of how the work is to be performed.
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Is 1971 minimum wage "in silver quarters" far, far higher than the current minimum wage?
There is a widely circulated claim that 1971 minimum U.S. wage -- when paid in silver quarters -- would significantly exceed the current nominally higher minimum wage.
In 1971, the Federal minimum ...
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Are Spire Healthcare doctors contracted to work 168 hours per week?
BBC News states that doctors are contracted by Spire Healthcare to work up to 168 hours per week.
The BBC also obtained testimony from doctors - contracted by the company to work up to 168 hours a ...
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Do homeless people in the USA refuse to work?
In 2008, economist Thomas Sowell claimed in the newspaper article Freedom and the left:
Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service” — as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is ...
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Do any ATS companies advertise entirely automated resume rejection?
It's not an unheard of notion that employers, particularly large tech companies, might use automated systems to reject candidates, without any human involvement.
This article claims the following:
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Do 90% of employees who accept a counteroffer still end up leaving after a year?
According to a very highly upvoted post on Workplace.SE that says you should never accept a counteroffer:
80% of people who accept counter offers are gone from that company within 6 months, at the 12 ...
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Is the Wonderlic test cross validated by any other test or data? [closed]
In a quite famous lecture Jordan Peterson lists what IQ you need to work in certain professions, based on the Wonderlic test.
Are there other sources to these claims than Wonderlic that gives similar ...
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Do (non-British) EU citizens make up 95% of the veterinary workforce in UK food production?
In a complex story about the potential gridlock of a no-deal Brexit, the following claim is made:
[T]he UK could try to move past the immediate chaos of no-deal, pull itself together, and level-up ...
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Were the vast majority of lost manufacturing jobs since 2000 lost due to automation?
There has been a lot of discussion here in the US about manufacturing and about bringing back jobs from overseas.
While interviewing US presidential candidate Andrew Yang on the Waking Up podcast, ...
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The average age of a highly skilled factory worker in the U.S. is 56 (or so)
In a 2012 NYT piece we read that
The average age of a highly skilled factory worker in the U.S. is now 56. “That’s average,” says Hal Sirkin, the lead author of the study. “That means there’s a lot ...
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Does Australia have one of the Highest levels of temporary employment in the OECD?
There is a post being shared around by Australian Unions that claims Australia has one highest level of temporary employment in the OECD. The image has a list of 15 countries where the OECD has ...
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Are "Get Paid to Travel" ads part of a sex trafficking network?
Recently, on Facebook, the following images have been trending in my feed, people forwarding them on, claiming that most if not all of them are actually attempts to get women into sex trafficking (...
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Did a building supervisor in Spain get fined for not showing up to work for six years, unnoticed?
In this 2016 Huffington Post article, it says:
For six years, a building supervisor in Spain quietly collected a $41,500 salary from his local government without showing up for work.
And he would ...
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Are there 96 million workers in the US who want a job and can't get one?
On Wednesday 11 Jan 2017, US President-elect Donald Trump claimed in a press conference that:
There will be a major border tax on these companies that are leaving and getting away with murder. And ...
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Does the H-1B visa program cause a net decrease in the employment prospects of skilled U.S. job applicants in STEM fields?
It is widely claimed that the H-1B program "takes away jobs from Americans." For example, here's a message posted in the Academia chat room by SSimon not long ago:
The way I understand it when H-1B'...
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Are Australian Teachers only paid for 25 hours/week?
This news article from news.com.au quotes Kathy Margolis :
Despite all the time they put in, teachers are paid for just 25 hours a week, she added, as if they were part time.
Is this true?
Is it ...
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Does the Salvation Army pay female pastors?
This tumblr post makes several claims about the Salvation Army:
Reasons not to donate to Salvation Army this holiday season:
They don’t pay their female pastors. (Their wages get added to ...
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Are male nurses salaries higher than female nurses salaries?
A recent article on USA Today claims that on male nurses make more than female nurses:
even in an occupation that women overwhelmingly dominate, they [women] still earn less than men
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Has a company fired its employees by deactivating their access badges?
A few years ago, at the beginning of the financial crisis, there was this rumor that traveled from mouth to mouth about some company that did some layoffs.
The story says the company's management ...
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Is Walmart the largest company in history?
I have seen a post going around on Facebook containing a list of "facts" about Walmart. Two of them seem like very large claims:
Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's largest private
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Do taller people earn more money?
There are several articles that state that tall people make more money. According to wikipedia it is a known fact that some jobs require tall people, however I'm skeptical that on average this is ...
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Is networking the most effective way to get employment?
The old adage is “it's not what you know, but who you know”, being a short statement of the premise that ability is less important than knowing the right person.
At one end of the spectrum is ...
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Do age and gender discrimination compound in the workplace to reduce the odds of an older women being hired?
Forbes claims that gender and age discrimination compound more for women as they age, to the point where it can be difficult for older women to get jobs. The gender gap is pretty well-known, but I ...
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Are certain days "better" than others to terminate employees?
As we all learned from Office Space, "studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week."
I have also heard that Mondays are better, because ...
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Do small businesses create the majority of the jobs in America?
Do small businesses create the majority of the jobs in the United States?
I guess it would depend on one's definition of small business, but stipulating that the definition is the one used by ...
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