unemployment

Help Fight Discrimination Against the Unemployed

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Some 25 million Americans are unemployed, underemployed or have stopped looking for work, and wages are essentially flat. Workers are struggling to get the few jobs that are available—there are 4.7 unemployed people for every one job open. As if those odds weren’t difficult enough, jobless workers face another obstacle: Many employers are discriminating against the jobless by prohibiting them …

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Jobs Crisis Forum: The Time for Excuses Is Over. Create Jobs Now

Leave a Comment / job search, unemployment / By max cyril

Shonda Sneed of Yellow Springs, Ohio, was laid off in December 2009 and is about to run out of unemployment benefits. Because of state budget cuts, she also could soon lose the health care nurse who helps care for her mother who has dementia. At the last job she applied for, she was told 450 …

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Blog #10. Fired in Real Time: Keeping the Faith

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Want to know what it feels like to be fired? It’s easy, go out and let all the air out of your car’s tires. Sure you can get from point A to point B, but it’s a bumpy and precarious ride. Welcome to life as a recently fired person. Your immediate concern after being fired …

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Blog #9. Fired in Real Time: Getting Advice

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

I remember the feeling of being on a short leash when I was growing up. Whenever I forgot about it, my parents would yank it just to remind me. Unemployment is like that too. I got an email for a mandatory meeting with four days notice. There was no option for rescheduling it, and the …

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Fired in Real Time: On the Dole

Leave a Comment / unemployment insurance / By max cyril

I woke up in the middle of the night physically shaking, frozen in fear about how I’d pay my bills. I had totally soaked through my sheets, so I had to climb out of my unintentional water bed. Once I realized what was going on, I decided I would go online and do some research …

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Paid Sick Days – an Important Job Saving Strategy in a Weak Economy

Leave a Comment / paid sick leave, Uncategorized / By max cyril

The latest government report on job openings and labor turnover – the JOLTS report – makes an important point. Recent improvements in the labor market – employment gains and the falling unemployment rate – owe little to an increase in hiring by employers. Instead, they result mainly from a decline in involuntary separations – layoffs …

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Unemployed Can’t Get Jobs Because They Are…Unemployed

Leave a Comment / discrimination, EEOC, unemployment / By max cyril

As if finding a job isn’t hard enough, unemployed workers now face the added hurdle of being discriminated against because they don’t have a job. Speaking today before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project (NELP), said that practices barring the unemployed from job availabilities …

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Making America the Best Place on Earth to Work

When I’m 84 (Dedicated to Joe Paterno & Hugh Hefner)

Leave a Comment / workplace issues / By max cyril

When I get older losing my hair, Many losses from now, Will you still be sending Joe PA a valentine, Bowl bids and high school stars divine. If Hef’s been out for dinner at quarter to three (pm), Would you lock the mansion’s door? Will you marry a guy who’s 60 years your senior, When …

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The State of Native America: Very Unemployed and Mostly Ignored

Leave a Comment / economy, Jobs / By max cyril

As the new year begins, it’s as good a time as any to look at a topic almost completely ignored by mainstream media: how Native American people are faring in the U.S. labor market. The economy and its paucity of jobs dominated U.S. headlines throughout 2010, but news media overlooked the particularly difficult experiences of …

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