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Home Telemarketing: Fact Or Fiction?
Many classified ads contain job advertisements promising that telemarketers who work from home make as much or more money as those who work in a call center. There are even some that claim earning potentials of thousands in the first week. It's only smart to be skeptical of such claims, but are there really work from home telemarketing jobs?
Actually there are such jobs. For many people a work from home telemarketing job is a great way to make money, if coupled with quality products and support. However, these jobs are not in great abundance. The quality work from home jobs are not easy to find and must be sorted out of the vast majority of undesirable clones. Those who want to find this line of work may have to spend significant time and effort searching for the few legitimate opportunities.
No record kept of criminals convicted abroad
Hundreds of serious criminals convicted abroad - including killers and rapists - were left off the police national computer because their details were never passed on by the Home Office, MPs were told yesterday.
The extraordinary blunder means they may have been cleared to work with children and other vulnerable people or obtained jobs without their employers knowing of their background. As their details were not entered on to the computer they would not have shown up on checks carried out by the Criminal Records Bureau. .
Demand for state boarding schools soar as parents work overtime
Busy parents who are priced out of independent education have sent demand for state boarding schools soaring 50 per cent, it emerged yesterday.
Often tied into long hours at work, they are keen to give their children a boarding education but are unable to afford private school fees which can top 25,000-a-year.
State boarding heads report that demand for places has spiralled 50 per cent in just four years, leaving the country's 34 schools up to four times over-subscribed.
Much of the boom has been driven by parents who are holding down demanding jobs while struggling to organise childcare until late in the evening when they arrive home, according to the Boarding Schools' Association.
At the same time, the runaway success of JK Rowling's Harry Potter books - which features the magical Hogwarts School - has been credited with converting many more children to the merits of a boarding education.
Home prices rise faster than wages
Homeownership is climbing further out of reach for the average Louisville-area worker, whose earnings are failing to keep pace with home prices, a new study and federal wage data show.
Louisville still has cheaper housing than most major cities. But police officers, firefighters and social workers earning the median salary for their jobs are among the people that can't afford a fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage on a house costing $142,500 -- the region's median home price in 2006.
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Clarion to close Ames plant; 132 jobs cut
The Clarion Technologies plastics plant in Ames will close in March, eliminating the jobs of 132 workers, according to a notice received by Iowa Workforce Development.
Permanent job cuts will begin March 14 and are scheduled to be completed by March 28, the notice from the company said.
The factory's parent corporation, Clarion Technologies, is based in Grand Rapids, Mich. Clarion factories make injection-molded plastic parts for the home appliance, consumer products and automotive industries.
The Ames closing is the latest sign of mixed messages coming from Iowa's manufacturing sector. Manufacturing employment in November was up about 4,000 jobs from a year earlier, Workforce Development reported.
The past year, however, also was marked by plant closings such as the shutdown of the 500-employee Rubbermaid factory in Centerville and the planned closing of the Maytag factory in Newton, which had a work force of 900 before production began winding down.
Beating The Cold
For many with outside jobs, the cold isn't conducive to productivity. That's the reason many COSMIX construction workers got to go home early, Monday. "Weather like this is awful, it's so cold," said COSMIX spokesman Bill Badger. "When you tell the guys they get to go home for the day because it's too cold, most are pretty happy about that!"From breaks at work to broken bones, Memorial Hospital's emergency room was up to it's neck in weather-related injuries."Lots of bumps, bruises, fractured hips and broken wrists," said emergency room Doctor, Rich Loehre. Whether you're shoveling snow or just walking, Dr. Loehre says give yourself a little more time to do it."Be aware of your body mechanics, take things slower, take smaller steps."Dr. Loehre also says bundle up to avoid freezing-- a big concern for the homeless.
Amicus angered by decision to close Birds Eye in Hull
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(CCNMatthews - Jan. 11, 2007) - Amicus, the UK's largest manufacturing union, has expressed anger at Unilever's decision to close its Bird's Eye frozen fish factory in Hull with the loss of 340 jobs.
Workers at the factory in Hull, were sent home from work today, following the announcement that the factory would be shut and the work moved to Felixstowe, Suffolk and Bremerhaven in Germany. Unilever plans to close the Hull site by September this year.
The union says these job cuts are the direct result of poor job protection in the UK. Amicus want UK employment laws strengthened to stop UK workers losing jobs because they are cheaper and easier to sack than other workers in Europe.
Amicus' Regional Officer, Tony Randerson, said:
"We are shocked and dismayed at the decision to close the factory in Hull as we had been receiving positive not negative vibes from the company.
Mountain men and women venture to Casper for fellowship, fun
CASPER - Wyoming's mountain men and women of the 21st century live in two different worlds. Wherever they call home, they hold down jobs, get the kids to school and work as hard at getting by in today's high-tech world as anyone else.Catch them at a rendezvous or muzzleloader shoot, however, and you'll find a remarkable transformation. They'll be immersed in the 19th-century mountain lifestyle, which includes black powder shooting, dressing in period clothing and living in something portable and uninsulated.This pastime requires a healthy industry to support it, and that's why some very interesting entrepreneurs will be on hand this weekend when the Wyoming State Muzzle Loaders Convention and Trade Show convenes at The Holiday Inn on the River in Casper.The annual convention, which began Friday, is a get-together of re-enactors, shooters and many combinations of both.
Convergys to add 100 telecommuting call jobs
Convergys Corp. will give about 100 Chattanooga-area residents a chance to work from home, company officials announced Tuesday.
A newly unveiled at-home work program will boost to about 800 the number of area jobs added by Convergys in the last nine months.
Including the new telecommuting agents, Convergys will employ 1,200 people at its operations in Eastgate Town Center.
About 70 of the telecommuting jobs will be full-time, said Virginia Maedgen, senior human resources manager. There will be day and evening shifts, she said.
The company will begin hiring this week and continue through the end of January, Ms. Maedgen said. The first of about five telecommuter training classes is set to begin Jan. 22.
Employees will complete three to four weeks of training and a month of work at the company's Eastgate center before shifting to home-based work, according to the company.
