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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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 month mark that goes up to 90%
I looked at the…
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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 if our politicians had what it takes, they would…
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As of February 2019, were US wages rising at the "fastest pace in decades"?
The President of the USA, Donald Trump, told during his "State of the Union address" speech on 5th February 2019, that
[...] wages in America are rising at the fastest pace in decades
Source: at about 46 minutes on this video from YouTube.
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Are 550 people still losing their jobs at "Trump's" Carrier plant?
Donald Trump made saving the jobs at Carrier a big campaign rallying point. On December 06, 2016 New York Times reported from Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers Local 1999, that
550 people are losing their jobs.
700 other positions…
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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 it allows the former employee to immediately…
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Are Fairtrade farmers paid worse than other farmers in the same regions?
There have been a few articles recently on the (in)efficiency of fair trade organisation Fairtrade. Here is an example from the Guardian:
Sales of Fairtrade-certified products from Uganda and Ethiopia are not
benefiting poor farmworkers as…
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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 capacity so it could get the certification system…
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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's are brought into the country it takes away jobs…
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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 indeed a fact.
Do taller people earn more money on…
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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 politicians when they make that claim, I wonder if it is…
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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 their husbands’ paychecks.)
They turn away gay people from…
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Is it more expensive to employ a smoker than a non-smoker?
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Det kostar nära 6.000 dollar (knappt 40.000 kronor) mer per år att ha
en rökare anställd än någon som inte röker, visar en studie i USA.
Skälet är rökares större sjukfrånvaro, dyrare hälsovård och lägre
produktivitet på grund av…
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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
employer, and most speak English.
Wal-Mart is the…
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Do 80% of people "hate their job"?
I keep hearing the statistic "80% of people work at a job they dislike".
Make Dogs Your Life3
80% of People Hate Their Job – Are You One of Them?
Business Insider
Most people -- 80% according to Deloitte’s Shift Index survey -- are
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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 of 50,000). Apple Page here.
The headline…
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