Word: labors
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...Today's Japan is like a family in which the parents don't feed and educate their children enough, but still ask the kids to behave and to support them when they grow old. The business world is desperately pursuing profit by sacrificing its young workforce, through part-time labor at low wages. The government asks the younger generation to be more patriotic, even when they cannot have confidence in their future. How can we call Japan a beautiful country? M. Otani Kagawa, Japan...
...hastily and on the cheap to impress their prospective client--a few contractors up the chain--the U.S. Army. Time has obtained the first eyewitness testimony given under oath that describes the events leading up to that convoy. In a 194-page sworn deposition filed with the Department of Labor in a separate legal proceeding, Christopher Berman, who worked and roomed with Helvenston in weeks leading up to his death, describes a company's managers overwhelmed by logistics and plagued by volatile tempers as they rushed to take over the new contract...
...Recruited by subcontracted agencies in their home countries, 290 workers arrived on 10-month H-2B visas (for non-professional, non-agricultural labor) from Bolivia, the Dominican Republic and Peru to work at the front desk, in maintenance, and as cleaning staff for Decatur's 15 luxury hotels throughout the New Orleans area. Decatur, founded in 1988 by Quinn and Edwin Palmer III, prides itself on turning abandoned historic buildings into boutique hotels. Decatur's lawyer Patricia LeBlanc told the Associated Press on Aug. 17 that the hotel firm sought to use the H-2B program for the first time...
...Immigration experts are not convinced, noting that in post-Katrina New Orleans, businesses regularly used these temporary guest-worker programs to evade hiring U.S. labor at higher wages and with benefits. The Department of Labor (DOL) requires U.S. companies wanting foreign labor to first prove that "no persons in the U.S. are available" for the positions. But Decatur workers' allies claim that the DOL lacked the proper oversight to approve the workers' contracts...
...immigration issues. The 89,000 H-2B workers entering the U.S. annually are bound to their employer and have no right to legal counsel. Yet there is no government agency that can force the companies to abide by their contracts, he explains. "It's today's version of bonded labor...