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 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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How did the number of employed go up 873K in September 2012, while there were only 114K new jobs? [closed]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, says that total non-farm employment went up 114,000, but in the the latest summary data says that there are 873,000 more employed in September than there were in ...
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Do high-school-leaving exams decide your future?
Tomorrow my daughter will take her Gaokao exams. This is China's national end of high school exam for university entrance - something akin to Americas SAT or GRE exams. It is commonly said that such ...
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Does Apple support half a million American jobs?
Apple recently posted the results of an external analysis that suggested their business was responsible for supporting more than 500,000 jobs in the USA (though they only directly employ of the order ...
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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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Has the internet caused significant job losses since 2008?
"Layoffs too often became permanent, not part of the business cycle. And these changes didn't just affect blue collar workers. If you were a bank teller or a phone operator or a travel agent, you ...
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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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How is structural unemployment measured?
In light of today's Presidential Speech on jobs, I was reminded of something that I read in Bloomberg Businessweek.
With the jobless rate still above 9 percent, the untapped labor pool is deep. ...
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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, ...
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Is asking about U.S. citizenship an illegal interview question?
From About.com,
Are you a U.S. citizen?
Every interview I have had has asked this. Even pre-interview screening includes this question. Is it really illegal for them to ask this?
Note: Not ...
