... Its data showed the construction industry had the largest average ghost job rate out of all industries, with 38% of jobs being classified as ghost jobs. Art industry jobs came in second place at 34%, and legal jobs came in third with 29%. Greenhouse found in the second quarter of 2024, almost 31% of corporate services job postings never led to anyone being hired.
Companies post ghost jobs for a variety of reasons, like trying to project growth even if they aren’t growing, or because they are open to great candidates even if they don’t have a role open.
A survey from Resume Builder in 2024 revealed that 39% of hiring managers said their company posted a fake job listing in the past year. Among those who did, “approximately 26% posted one to three fake job listings, 19% posted five, 19% posted 10, 11% posted 50, 10% posted 25, and 13% posted 75 or more.”
Some hiring managers even admitted they post fake jobs to keep their own employees on their toes, saying they want workers to feel “replaceable” so they will work harder.
No real surprise there. Other reasons include wanting to keep a "pipeline" going even if they don't have current openings, and posting as a technicality while giving the job to the boss' nephew. As part of the other side of the game, lots of people put in applications for jobs they have no intention of taking. Nobody should believe that anything they see in the overall recruitment process is not heavily coloured with smoke and mirrors.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) is warning federal employees not to cave to President Donald Trump’s offer of a buyout that would give workers about eight months’ salary if they leave their jobs next week.
“He’ll stiff you,” Kaine said on the Senate floor.
Contractors who’ve worked for Trump and Trump’s companies have frequently reported struggles getting paid. In 2016, USA Today reported on some 3,500 legal actions against Trump over pay disputes with contractors and others.
... He added that Trump doesn’t have the authority to even make that offer ― and anyone who takes him up on it is taking a huge risk.
“There’s no budget line item to pay people who are not showing up for work,” Kaine said....
... The rule Trump nuked, Executive Order 11246, forbade federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity....
Judy Conti, government affairs director at the National Employment Law Project, a worker advocacy group, said Trump had stripped away a “key tool” in combating discrimination.
“This is not a return to so-called ‘meritocracy,’” Conti said in a statement. “Rather, it’s an attempted return to the days when people of color, women, and other marginalized people lacked the tools to ensure that they were evaluated on their merits.”
I had to check to make sure it wasn't satire. Florida has a real proposal, backed by DeSantis, to fill the jobs formerly held by undocumented workers by .....drum roll.............KIDS!
I had to check to make sure it wasn't satire. Florida has a real proposal, backed by DeSantis, to fill the jobs formerly held by undocumented workers by .....drum roll.............KIDS!
I had to check to make sure it wasn't satire. Florida has a real proposal, backed by DeSantis, to fill the jobs formerly held by undocumented workers by .....drum roll.............KIDS!
Another adult American lazyass admission. Damn, so many have been pushed through the education system.
A Samaritan stopped by a man with a sign. Will work for food. The Samaritan said hop in, I have a acre of land that needs clearing off. He wouldn't get in.
Must have offered him an onion.
No real surprise there. Other reasons include wanting to keep a "pipeline" going even if they don't have current openings, and posting as a technicality while giving the job to the boss' nephew. As part of the other side of the game, lots of people put in applications for jobs they have no intention of taking. Nobody should believe that anything they see in the overall recruitment process is not heavily coloured with smoke and mirrors.
The White House ramped up its attacks on federal labor unions Thursday by trying to strip away collective bargaining rights from a large chunk of the government workforce.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order declaring a slew of agencies ineligible for negotiating union contracts because they have intelligence or national security work as a “primary function.”
The order claims the exemption covers the State, Defense, Treasury, Justice and Veterans Affairs departments, along with large portions of the Interior, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services departments, and several other federal agencies.
If the policy survives a likely legal challenge, employees at the relevant agencies would no longer be covered by union contracts, losing a key barrier against unfair firings.
The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest federal union, said the order covers more than a million workers.
... “President Trump’s latest executive order is a disgraceful and retaliatory attack on the rights of hundreds of thousands of patriotic American civil servants — nearly one-third of whom are veterans — simply because they are members of a union that stands up to his harmful policies,” said Everett Kelley, the union’s president....
A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a pair of Democratic labor officials fired by President Donald Trump should be reinstated, setting the stage for an all but certain Supreme Court battle over executive power.
Trump fired Gwynne Wilcox, a member of the National Labor Relations Board, and Cathy Harris, a member of the Merit Systems Protection Board, shortly after his inauguration in January. Wilcox and Harris sued on the grounds their removals violated Supreme Court precedent.
The 7-4 ruling from the full D.C. Circuit on Monday reverses an earlier panel decision that allowed the firings.
7-4! That's better than my MM brackets.
The Trump administration has been taking an axe to the independence of such agencies, arguing the president can remove members in the middle of their terms at will. The firings of Wilcox and Harris eliminated quorums at both the NLRB and MSPB, which referee workplace disputes and enforce workers’ rights.
Facing legal pushback to the firings, the White House is hoping to upend a 1935 Supreme Court ruling that protects members of independent boards from presidential meddling. The White House has argued that the precedent, known as Humphrey’s Executor, is unconstitutional.
Dictator.
... Wilcox won temporary reinstatement from a federal judge who wrote in March that Trump broke the law and “fundamentally misapprehends” the Constitution. She returned to the labor board to a cheering staff, as HuffPost reported....
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Great, even more disgruntled security monitors. 
You're right, it could have been an article in The Onion. Oh wait,
