June 19, 2013

Employers: ‘Give Up Your Facebook Password or Else!’ (Video)

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*Employers throughout the nation are getting more invasive with their applicants than ever before. (Are you a fan of EURweb? Like us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter.) All of the drug tests and background checks have been a normal procedure that most have grown accustomed to, but now employers are asking for passwords [...]




President Obama Under Fire with Catholics Opposed to Birth Control

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*Throughout the world, women have always had to fight for equal rights. This country is not excluded in that struggle. In a bold move made by the President Obama administration, he has come to the defense of women to make birth control and other contraceptives available to those who work for Catholic employers. (more…)  




The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Forced Vaccinations: Justified Or Illegal?

*A friend told me her employer is making flu shots mandatory for its entire workforce of nearly two hundred people. Anyone who refuses the annual vaccine and later calls out sick during the fall or winter won’t receive sick pay. The debate over whether companies have a legal right to force employees into preventative healthcare [...]




June Job Report: Employers cut 125,000

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*A wave of census layoffs cut the nation’s payrolls in June for the first time in six months, while private employers added a modest number of jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, its lowest level in almost a year. The Labor Department says employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, the most since last [...]