That's already a requirement, Lorna. "You must be paid at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher." But that doesn't mean employers don't skirt the rules.
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When Hurricane Sandty struck New York, one phenomenon that emerged was how one disaster sets the stage for the next. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, building owners in New York were ordered to...
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What the government is doing is a disgrace There are plenty of American's that can do these jobs. There are enough people on unemployment that can fill these voids in IT and other areas. They only differences...
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I thought Bloomberg's administration was a model of efficiency and can-do management (and it always recovered from occasional overzealousness). I have to a agree that de Blasio is off to a worrying start, appointing a bunch...
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After over 20 years of "filling the gap" with foreign IT workers you would think there would be Americans available by now. When we are short of ICU nurses we don't go to India for them. When we are short...
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Sean, While I think there are a few, as you mention, who do have individuals' rights in mind, I'm not sure hackers necessarily "WILL be the ONE that fights for us." Hackers have their own reasons to do what they do. ...
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Conservative Nobel winning economist Milton Friedman said "There is no doubt, that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy." Socialist...
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Rick, Thanks for drawing the connection between the White House report and RPX figures. I don't believe that was made clear in the report.
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The business page qr code helps a lot to grow your business in online. You may link your wesite via a QRcode. There are many apps in the market place. I appreciated ones items in Poisonous Words -- this kind...
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The statements about not being able to fill entry-level jobs will not ring true with many job seekers, I am sure. It is not surprising that security skills are in high demand this year; this is one area where non-H-1B applicants...
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Of course, behavior and operations must change too, in the US and abroad. We have agency technology to spot stolen passports right now, yet two people boarded the missing plane that has dominated this week's news using stolen...
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When it comes to improving education, de Blasio needs to look at two sets of data: the data that shows the city's charter schools outperforming most of its regular public schools in poor areas, and the data showing that...
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I think some administrations are going to suffer from image issues no matter what they do right. On one hand a private company working with a government agency gives us a level of transparency we would not have otherwise....
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@WKash: Yes thanks for mentioning the interesting White House report. I wrote a story on those findings last year. See http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319116 An interesting thing to note in the report is that...
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It's interested to point out that the US is 4th in the overall Web Index (measure of the Web's growth, utility and impact). Nevertheless, it's 12th in Universal Access, 10th in Relevant Content. 1st in Impact & Empowerment...
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The governments and the corporations of the world have found and built their place on the internet. People like Eric Snowden, Julian Assange, and even organizations like Anonymous have the individual's rights in mind....
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If you click on the link below the paragraph/description (it says something like image credit), it'll open a new page where the images are. I hope it helps
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I commend Berners-Lee for raising the need for a digital bill of rights. But it's hard to imagine how it could ever be enforced -- especially when the balance of digital power increasingly centers around those, like...
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Thanks for noting, Charlie. NARA's IT leaders insist the contextual scanning tools available today, that help attorneys scan and catalog 10s and 100s of 1000s of documents have gotten good enough lately to tackle the...
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Daniel, I think the part that is the largest shift in all of this is the lack of understanding, by many, many users, that the world does not actually revolve around them (personally). The ME-centre has infantilised...
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How strange. I tried Chrome, FF and Internet Exploder, all the same. Win7.
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2014 State of Storage Survey
If you look at vendor financials, the enterprise storage business seems stuck in neutral. Don't believe it.
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