Contractors’ Road Money Clamor, Layoff Warnings
Contractors in Virginia are asking for more money from the government to help avoid layoffs of current construction workers. Virginia governor Bob McDonnell said that he would support raising up to $500 million by 2018 to build more roads but did not say how he would do so. This feeds in to the current argument in congress about the size of government and how to raise revenue.
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Learning Employment Law in the Midst of Layoffs
Career Education Center is a weekly column authored by EmploymentCrossing, the nation's leading jobsite dedicated to getting people jobs.
According to the New York Times, Zynga, popular for its social games, is seeing the downside of the economy with job cuts in October 2012. With another dismal earnings report, the company is letting go about 5 percent of its work force, or 150 people. In times of layoffs, it is good for every employee to learn a little about employment law so as not to be cheated in pay or in benefits when putting in long hours just to be spit out when cash is not king with an employer. One area of employment law that affects everyone is the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), a federal law to protect workers against unfair employment practices. As a federal law, FLSA preempts state laws, unless state laws are [...]
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