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...newborn. Outsourced workers are not eligible for this benefit. An outsourced worker who takes a three-month leave to have a baby will not be compensated.Some outsourced workers do not receive healthcare benefits at all. Recently, Harvard hired Andrades Cleaning to provide janitorial workers. Seven Andrades employees are assigned 15 hours of work a week, an interesting number of hours to assign given that only one additional hour would qualify these workers for health benefits. Outsourced workers are often hesitant to form or join unions, fearing reprisal from their managers. As a result, increased outsourcing impairs employees’ ability...
...assign blame? if we expended half as much effort in attempting to learn from the Katrina disaster as we have in trying to find whom or what to blame, more people would be out of danger and beginning to rebuild their lives. Judith Heineman Phoenix, Arizona...
...easy to assign blame for the Katrina relief fiasco?there are plenty of targets. It is much harder to accept responsibility. What went wrong? The American people persist in voting for political demagogues who promise them continued services for lower taxes. Government is not, despite what former President Ronald Reagan claimed, the problem. Nor is it, as others have asserted, a beast that must be starved. Government is society's means to collectively address problems that are too large or costly for individuals to handle. In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve. By shortsightedly choosing lower taxes...
...assign blame? If we expended half as much effort in attempting to learn from the Katrina disaster as we have in trying to find whom or what to blame, more people would be out of danger and beginning to rebuild their lives. Judith Heineman Phoenix...
Naturally, challenges exist with any grading system, and this one is no exception. The familiar complaint that science students typically earn lower grades than students of the humanities (perhaps because it is easier to assign a poor grade on a problem set than on a paper) would remain. It is not obvious how one would standardize grades across departments or even if one would wish to do so. But this problem is not as serious as it seems. It is quite possible that Harvard attracts more students capable of exceptional work in one field than in another...