Posted by AJE Job Seeker Guide

Over the past several years the trend of working from home has grown in popularity. According to the United States Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor statistics, on the days that they worked, 24 percent of employed persons did some or all of their work at home. Read more…

Posted by Pratik Sinha

In today’s difficult labor market, unemployment is rampant, but even the “lucky ones” who manage to find new work are not left unscathed. For the first time since the early 1980s, wages for a significant portion of the labor force have fallen swiftly and sharply. According to the Labor Department, between 2007 and 2009, more than half of full-time workers who had lost their jobs and then found new positions reported wage declines. Of these workers, 36 percent reported that their new jobs paid at least 20% less than their previous positions. Moreover, it is likely that those who are currently unemployed and looking for work would be willing to accept lower wages in order to get hired. As a result, economists say that it will take years before the market wages return to their pre-recession levels. Read more…

Posted by Rathin Sinha, President

As America celebrates Labor Day to pay tribute to the contributions of its workforce, the mood is anything but festive for millions of Americans. While shifts in the labor system has been occurring for years, the recent global recession has taken a far greater toll on the American worker than workers in any other developed nation. Since the beginning of 2007, unemployment in the US has increased by 5 percent compared to only 1 percent increase in France and Japan, and a 2 percent rise in Britain. In the same period unemployment rate remained mostly unchanged or even went down in the economies of China, India and Germany. American employers have responded to the recession with far more layoffs and staff reduction than those in other countries. Read more…

Posted by Pratik Sinha

Kimberley Swann was a 16-year-old office administrator at Ivell Marketing & Logistics, located in the international financial powerhouse that is Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. She, like most teenagers, owned a Facebook page, but little did she know that it would result in her dismissal from her job. Read more…