Posted by Labor Law Guy | Posted on 07-10-2009
Category : Random Musings
Tags: employment, job market, laid-off workers
Or at least 40 percent of employers in a survey say they plan to rehire laid-off workers in the coming months, but not all of these jobs will be full-time. Some will be part-time, others consulting, and still others project-based.
The survey by OI Partners also found, however, that 37 percent of employers have no plans to rehire ("Good riddance, you freeloaders!"–my take) and 23 percent are undecided.
The main reason cited for this rehiring is that the laid-off employees’ skills are known and needed. Other reasons were that the former employees fit well into the company culture, their skill-sets were hard to fill on the open market, and rehiring them was less risky than new hires.
The survey found that financial services companies are most likely to rehire some laid-off employees, while manufacturing companies are the second-most likely. Government agencies and non-profit institutions are least likely to rehire laid-off workers, followed by health-care employers.
Posted by LaborLawGuy | Posted on 29-12-2008
Category : Federal Labor Law, Random Musings, State Labor Law
Tags: employment, overpaid
Here’s something I just learned. I generally don’t pay much attention to unemployment insurance law since I don’t qualify for it, but some people have been pretty smart at gaming the system.
To wit:
Under federal unemployment rules that are being changed Jan. 6, 2009, a worker who drew wages from jobs in two or more states could choose ANY STATE from which to claim the benefits. The smart ones all opted, evidently, for Massachusetts, which pays the highest unemployment sum in the nation at $628 a week plus $25 for each dependent.
Come the New Year plus a few days, however, and new rules will force the unemployed to seek unemployment checks only from states in which they’ve actually worked.
Massachusetts officials must be breathing easier.
