Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Department Of Labor Spends $40 Billion To Create One Amazing New Job

In the face of bad economy, the federal government has allocated $40 billion to stimulate economic growth and boost the confidence of the American workforce.

"After carefully surveying the current employment landscape, it has become evident that generating a single, incredible new job is the most effective course of action," Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said. "Rather than place 2 million Americans in unfulfilling, dead-end careers, we feel that giving one citizen the opportunity to contribute to the study of multiple orgasms in a controlled hot-tub environment will ultimately yield the most lasting change."


Though the new employee will not report to an immediate superior, he or she will be required to submit monthly progress reports pertaining to an ongoing trampoline-and-bottle-rockets public works project.

"If the chosen applicant feels that unwrapping an endless series of Christmas presents is becoming too overwhelming, then they can simply take the rest of the day off and pick it up in the morning," the online posting read.

Friday, May 15, 2009

Explanation for Employers Need to Document Their Reasons for Terminations when Employment is At-Will

There may be a question that bother a manger is that they need to worry about documentation when terminating employees since everyone is an employee-at-will.

The core to answer this question is the employment law 101.
So let’s make it again that what is employment-at-will? It means that you can employ or fire an employee for any reason or even without any reason. But we should make it clear that there is a prescription the reason is not unlawful..

Here comes the problem. Many employees who have been terminated will claim that their termination was unlawful because it was discriminatory based upon their protected class .

As we know, there are only five protected classes under Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1991: wit, sex, color, race, national origin and religion. In addition, each state usually has a larger number of protected classes than under federal law such as citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, etc. So what most terminated employees do is claim that the reason they were terminated was discriminatory based upon one or more of these protected classes such as race, age, disability, etc.

How then can an employer protect its self against such claims? The answer is documentation. So before employers fire employees, they should have evidence the termination is result from the poor performance of the employees.

The best way for an employer to demonstrate this is with disciplinary warning letters stating that the employee has not comply with the regulations of company. But this is not enough; employers should provide the employee every possible opportunity to improve his performance until he refuses to change.

So this is the reason that although employees are employees-at-will, employers still have to document the reasons that the employees are being terminated.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Who is the most beautiful woman in the world?

According to a recent vote conducted by Vanity Fair magazine, Angelina Jolie won 58 percents as the most beautiful woman in the world, followed by Gisele Bundchen who only won 9 percent votes.

It's not the first time that Jolie, mother of six children, has won a title of this kind.

A name list of 19 ladies are given to choose, including singer Beyonce Knowles, actress Gwyneth Paltrow, model Bar Refaeli, Queen Rania of Jordan and Carla Bruni - the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and ZiYi Zhang, a Chinese actress.

Angelina Jolie




On its website, Vanity Fair said: "Of the billions of women on this planet, only 19, we believe, could start wars. This is a modern version of Helens of Troy. Maybe no one will start a war for one woman but those beauties can compete with Helen indeed.

Beyonce



Queen Rania of Jordan




Chinese actor ZiYi Zhang



Carla Bruni - the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy