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...without supervision. In those cases, the day-labor centers can legitimately--if not very plausibly--argue that the workers were legals. The practice plays cute with the law, to be sure, but since people get paid and work gets done, just about everyone involved with it has something to gain from it. What's not to like...
...developed a program with the ANZ and Commonwealth banks in regional N.S.W. During their final two years of high school, recruited students work in bank branches in customer-service roles one day a week during term and full-time during holidays. At the end of the program, students gain a certificate in financial services. Some, like Wayne Langenbaker, 17, from Tamworth, are offered full-time jobs. "The traineeship and working at the Commonwealth Bank has given me great confidence," says Langen-baker, who also found peer support at school from the other trainees. Career banker Bruce McQualter, an ANZ Bank...
...there's a prevailing movement that Estens and a gaggle of bureaucrats can't reverse: Australia's booming economy is not generating enough unskilled work, particularly for men. According to Bob Gregory, professor of economics at the ANU, it's getting harder - not easier - for Aboriginal people to gain mainstream employment (that is, outside the burgeoning indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme). Despite massive spending on job training programs, the results have been "extraordinarily poor," argues Gregory, who estimates each full-time job from one intensive assistance program has cost taxpayers $A75,000. Without a change in economy-wide forces...
...businesswoman, I found your piece on the growing number of Chinese taking classes in Western etiquette very informative--and frightening [Nov. 14]. It said more about how much money the U.S. stands to lose, and China to gain, over the next 10 years than about how polite the Chinese may eventually become. Although I wholeheartedly applaud the efforts to teach helpful social skills to the masses, I am a bit concerned about the consequences we business owners here in the U.S. will face with the inevitable success of the Chinese. It's probably time for Americans to order...
...onside kick on the ensuing kickoff. Torry Holt caught a 19-yard pass to set up Jeff Wilkins’ 47-yard field goal that tied it at 27 with four seconds left.The Rams recovered from a horrible first half, with just 117 yards and six first downs, to gain 312 yards and 16 first downs in the second half.Fitzpatrick proved an able replacement after backup Martin left late in the first quarter with a blow to the head. He was 19-of-30 for 310 yards and three touchdowns in three quarters, despite being sacked five times.The Rams entered...