Suppose a city was giving out money and nobody showed up to claim it.   That is not exactly the case with Philadelphia’s new employment program.   But close enough. According to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the City of Brotherly Love offered employers a $10,000 tax credit for three years for each former felon that [...]

This is a tough call.   With the economy on the down slope and economic recovery not expected until sometime in 2010, at least, employees are faced with tighter restrictions on the hiring of immigrant workers requiring HB-1 Visas.  These visas are generally awarded to skilled workers, often in the engineering, technology and financial sectors.   In [...]

The french have always been trendsetters when it comes to fashioon and cuisine.   Anyone who has visited Paris detects a noticeable difference between the fashions statements of the French and Americans.   They have it down better.   French women can do more with a scarf than other women around the world can do with an entire [...]

Drug tests are increasingly becoming part of an employer’s preemployment screening suite of background checks.   While some employers are still reluctant to conduct background checks as part of the preemployment screening process, many more are faced with several conditions that mandate they do so.   For many, it is a fact of life whose time has [...]