Class of 2021: Four Ways to Help COVID-Era Grads Adapt to the Working World
By Lindsey Pollak
On 4/29/21 at 7:00 AM EDT
Pandemic Grads Need You: Become a micro-mentor
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Wearing a cap and gown. Listening to inspiring words from assorted luminaries. Hearing the dean of students read off your name not in person, but from a Zoom screen. Such is the state of college graduations these days. But this isn t only about missing out on experiences most of us have enjoyed. The Class of 2021 is entering a challenging job market, perhaps like none other. While recent unemployment numbers have been encouraging, hiring for entry level, college grad positions has fallen 45 percent since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies, a labor-market analytics firm.
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The amendment by the Government of the labour legislation by eliminating the obligation of micro-enterprises to draw up in writing the job description for employees changes the status of millions of citizens from employees to slaves, it is mentioned in a release issued on Thursday by the National Trade Union Bloc (BNS). In a sovereign contempt for the Constitution and for Romania s status as a member state of the European Union, the Government, surrounded by a legislative delirium, adopts in the meeting of April 28, 2021 two pieces of legislation that will generate huge problems in labour relations They will affect the rights of millions of workers. (.) Regarding the Emergency Ordinance for amending and supplementing Law no. 53/2003 - Labour Code (.), this comes with the thesis of excluding the obligation of employers to issue the job description and the internal regulations, establishing their possibility to verbally communicate to the employees the attribution
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Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh speaks during a news conference at the White House in Washington, U.S. April 2, 2021. REUTERS/Erin Scott
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Ecuadorean banker Guillermo Lasso and his wife Maria de Lourdes Alcivar react after Lasso wins the presidential runoff vote, in Guayaquil, Ecuador April 11, 2021. REUTERS/Maria Fernanda Landin
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A worker constructs a length of ducting tube inside the Naylor Industries Wombwell site in Wombwell, Britain, April 27, 2021. Picture taken April 27. REUTERS/Phil Noble
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Sunak announced on March 3 the biggest business tax cut in modern British history as the economy emerges from its COVID-19 slump and faces up to life outside the European Union.