Thursday, February 12, 2009

Sweepstakes

Unlike regular sweepstakes, in which you have to wait until the giveaway ends and a winner is drawn before you know whether you will receive a prize or not, in instant win sweepstakes, you will know the result as soon as your entry goes through.

After your entry, if you are an instant winner, the winning message will pop immediately on your computer screen. Comparing with the regular sweepstakes, the instant win sweepstakes can keep the entrants’ high enthusiasms and a lot of people think they prefer this kind of sweepstakes, which can make them feel more excited.

Besides, many insnsnstant win sweepstakes let entrants play games before they find out whether they've won or not. But in fact, entrants’ performances in the game will hardly affect the result of whether they will win or not. The games are only exist to make the sweepstakes funnier and more exciting. So you can skip the game if you like, which won’t affect your choice of winning.

As for how the instant win sweepstakes run, usually the sponsors will pick a random winning time for each prize and the first person who enter the sweepstakes after that time has pass will win the prize. Last but not least, be sure to read the rules carefully, which may help you get the idea about how to enter such sweepstakes better.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division Collects Over $185 Million in 2008

The U.S. Department of labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced in a press release its enforcement data for Fiscal Year 2008. In FY 2008, WHD recouped back wage worth of $185,287 for 228,645 workers, which is a decrease compared to $220,613,703 for 341,624 workers in FY 2007.

The WHD didn’t mention the figure of FY 2007. Instead, WHD note that the statistic is a 40 percent increase over the FY 2001. The press release notes: “Since FY 2001, WHD has recouped more than $1.4 billion back wages for over two million workers.

The administrator for the Wage and Hour Division, Alexander J. Passantino, offers this statistics in order to ask for more funds to increase enforcement measures. He thinks that the stronger and stronger enforcement results are the effective prove that the comprehensive approach is working. WHD has urged more funds in the president’s FU 09 budge to hire additional investigators.