Archive for the ‘Employment Law’ category

Technical Recruiting Dictionary

March 27th, 2007

I’m always explaining the nomenclature of technical recruiting. It’s not necessarily a well-formed language, but it does have various constructs that are helpful to understand.

To make it a little simpler, I’ve gathered some definitions and placed them in a group here on the website called Glossary of Recruiting Terms.

Current definitions I have made available there, with more to come:

CareerBuilder Pays $500,000.00 For Overtime Pay Violations

February 13th, 2006

Internet employment Web site CareerBuilder.com, headquartered in Chicago, has paid $524,216 to 677 workers to resolve allegations of overtime pay violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act brought by the U.S. Department of Labor. Officials alleged that violations occurred when the company improperly classified some workers as exempt from overtime pay, and failed to compensate them at time and a half, including commissions, for hours worked over 40 in a work week. The department’s investigation covered a two-year period beginning January 2003 through January 2005.

More can be found here