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...needs of their main customers, Harvard’s students. When Harvard is not in session, approximately 20 percent of HUDS employees remain employed there. However, managers have been successful at placing many additional HUDS workers in temporary paid positions in other University departments. Those who are furloughed typically obtain seasonal employment outside of Harvard while retaining their Harvard health and dental benefits.As for worker safety, HUDS has a consistent and exemplary record of compliance with all codes for food service safety and sanitation. Harvard’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety acts as the independent, third party...
...year after imposing stricter restrictions on students’ international study, the College decided to reinstate some nations still under State Department travel warnings. The old policy relied too heavily on general blanket warnings and ignored regional variations in safety in different countries. For example, students could not obtain grants (or course credit) for studying in relatively safe countries such as Israel, Lebanon, and Kenya...
...unusually high demand for work visas this year and Harvard’s traditionally late graduation date, some international students have failed to obtain the work visas they need to keep their prospective jobs and remain in the United States next year.Three days before her graduation, Monica Rana ’06 thought her future was settled. She had an apartment in New York and a job with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DrKW), an investment banking company. But Rana received a call yesterday morning informing her that the company would probably have to rescind her job offer.Rana, who is from Nepal...
...shady business of pretexting to get personal information has been thriving for years. But online sellers are relatively new. Typically, these brokers claim they can obtain anyone?s phone records for around $100. There have been few lawsuits, mostly because the majority of victims never learn that their phone records were accessed...
...Civil liberties lawyers argue that regardless of the technical legality, it?s an ethically questionable practice for police to use fraudulently obtained information in their investigations. "As a policy matter there are set procedures [police] should use instead of sidestepping them for convenience sake,? says Siy from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, phone records are customers? private property and phone companies can disclose them only with the consent of the subscriber or with a subpoena from law enforcement. The act applies only to telecom companies, however, saying nothing about third parties selling records...