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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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, Sam Harris quotes a study from Yang's book:
80% of…
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Do single, childless women earn more than their male counterparts in urban USA?
The Daily Wire has a 2016 article that claims that women are not victims of pay discrimination.
The general topic is covered by a relation question here: Are women underpaid relative to men?
However, one more specific claim that is made is that…
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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 announced an important communicate to all the…
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Do a company's sustainability efforts impact employee retention?
It is common to seem claims that sustainable business practices help retain staff:
A 2019 Fast Company article discussed an (unlinked) survey of 1,000 US employees:
Nearly 70% of respondents said that if a company had a strong sustainability plan,…
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Has anyone ever lost a lawsuit for giving a bad employment reference? Has a case like this even happened in the U.S.?
It's is a well-known "fact" that companies can be sued for giving a bad employment reference about a former employee and that, because of this, many HR departments refuse to give any type of reference other than simply confirming employment…
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Only half of students graduating with a STEM degree [in 2009] were able to find STEM jobs [then]
From a 2013 EPI report as highlighed in an article published in The American Prospect:
As the EPI report lays bare, the common wisdom about our STEM problem is mistaken: We are not facing a shortage of STEM-qualified workers. In fact, we appear to…
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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 who are in their 60s. They’re going to retire…
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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 nepotism, as illustrated in this comic:
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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 (click to embiggen):
I'm a bit skeptical, both…
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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 have heard less about the gender gap as it relates…
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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 saw many in your profession replaced by ATMs and the…
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Has Biden averaged 550,000 new jobs per month as president?
I just saw on President Biden's Facebook page that he's averaged roughly 550,000 new jobs per month, more than double than the next highest, Bill Clinton. A lot of the people in the comments are saying that these are just people returning to work…
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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 approximately 30 nations.
Is the statement made about…
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Do homeless people in the USA refuse to work?
In 2008, economist Thomas Sowell claimed in a newspaper article:
Working in a homeless shelter is widely regarded as “community service” — as if aiding and abetting vagrancy is necessarily a service, rather than a disservice, to the community.
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