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Source: CBS News There’s new fuel for critics of the IRS. Government investigators say the tax agency doled out millions of dollars in bonuses to workers with disciplinary issues, including some who did not pay their own taxes. On Capitol Hill, there are new demands for change. CBS News’ Nancy Cordes reports these employees owed […]
Source: Gabrielle Kratsas / Detroit Free Press In a federal investigation, authorities have busted a black market sneaker scheme out of Nike’s Oregon headquarters. Nike employees stole and sold sample shoes around the country for as much as $20,000 a pair, according to reports. Nike Basketball’s “promo product manager” Tung Ho, 35, worked with his […]
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are trumpeting $600 million in new competitive grants to spur creation of targeted training and apprenticeship programs that could help people land well-paying jobs. (April 16)
Source: John Johnson / Newser / USA Today France already has a 35-hour work week, and a new rule is designed to make sure that it doesn’t start shading toward 40 hours because of work-related e-mail. The Guardian reports that the rule forbids workers from checking their phones or computers for work stuff after 6 p.m., […]
Source: G. Chambers Williams III, The Tennessean / USA Today NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Amazon.com hopes the workers in its scores of fulfillment centers across the USA are happy in their jobs. But if they’re not and would rather be doing something else, Amazon has a deal: The company will pay them a bonus — up to $5,000 — […]
Source: Roger Yu and Doug Carroll / USA Today The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week to its lowest level in seven years, beating economists’ estimate and reflecting an improved outlook for the job market. For the week ending April 5, the seasonally adjusted initial claims fell 32,000 from the […]
Source: Peter Eisler, Meghan Hoyer and Alex Beall / USA Today WASHINGTON — In 2012, seven physicians in the country received more than $10 million in reimbursements for services billed to Medicare, according to newly released federal data. They range from ophthalmologists who submitted claims for specialized, high-cost drug treatments to pathologists who billed the program […]
Source: Richard Nieva / CNet.com A major new security vulnerability dubbed Heartbleed was disclosed Monday night with severe implications for the entire Web. The bug can scrape a server’s memory, where sensitive user data is stored, including private data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card numbers. It’s an extremely serious issue, affecting some 500,000 servers, according to Netcraft, […]
Source: Lindsey Bever / The Washington Post A newly discovered security bug nicknamed Heartbleed has exposed millions of usernames, passwords and reportedly credit card numbers — a major problem that hackers could have exploited during the more than two years it went undetected. It’s unlike most of the breaches reported over the past few years, in […]
Source: AP / CBS News MILWAUKEE – A virus never before seen in the U.S. has killed millions of baby pigs in less than a year, and with little known about how it spreads or how to stop it, it’s threatening pork production and pushing up prices by 10 percent or more. Estimates vary, but one […]
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