Recruiters corrupt guestworker program
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Standing in the baking sun outside the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, hundreds of Mexicans wait anxiously for temporary work visas. But even before they were fingerprinted and interviewed for the permit, many had already paid recruiters thousands of dollars in hopes of easing the way.
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported to authorities Friday an e-mail circulating to employers that alleges to be a harassment complaint from the federal agency and contains links to a computer virus.
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After allegations the industry imports cheap labour Tthe Home Office has said it will review the way it awards work permits to foreign IT bods following an accusation that Work Permits UK was bending the rules to let outsourcing firms import foreign workers on the cheap.â¦
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A major criminal network believed to have been involved in arranging more than 300 sham marriages in Britain has been smashed by the Immigration Service, it emerged yesterday.
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Questions employers shouldn't ask -- and job seekers should avoid answering.
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The Bush administration proposed changes yesterday to a little-used agricultural guest-worker program that would provide incentives for farmers to hire foreigners legally.
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As per suggestions contained in the FAQ: Herein lies a report of two identified and as-of-yet uncorrected security flaws in Scoop. &nbsp;Enough detail will be provided to assist admins in investigating and correcting the flaws, but it is the author's hope that the details of the flaws will be sufficiently obscured to prevent abuse by the undesirables. Executive summary: Through the exploitation of various unchecked privileged operations, attackers may be able to perform admin-level actions leading to data loss. &nbsp;Additionally, well-intentioned security measures combined with XSS vulnerabilities can be exercised to simulate admin-level action, resulting in data loss.
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Microsoft calls in police over employee "abuse" of discount program.
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Job searching site warns users to watch out for fraud and says that its recent security breach "was not an isolated incident."
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Legitimate mortgage lenders inadvertently support--and get tangled in--spam traps.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 15 -- A former senior vice president of the company that runs the Monster job-search Web site admitted in court Thursday that he illegally backdated millions of dollars in employee stock option grants.
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Saddling up money mules Popular UK-based free ads website Adzooks is inadvertently helping fraudsters by failing to properly screen job offers for obvious cons, anti-fraud activists have warned.â¦
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The online recruitment site waited five days to tell its users about a security breach that resulted in the theft of confidential information from some 1.3 million job seekers.
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If you have a gold-plated resume and are beating recruiters off with a stick, here's a new twist: Companies will pay you to talk to them. You set the price.
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A year on, and the company's $1 million tip-off program has nabbed just one virus writer. Is it a bust?
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Immigration officials have smashed a criminal network operating one of the country&#39;s fastest-growing immigration scams: the bogus marriage.
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THE WRITERS of the MyDoom viruses are encoding job applications into the latest variants of the bug. According to Sophos the plea for work was found when its boffins were stripping the code of the MyDoom-U and MyDoom-V variants.