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She decided to travel out of the country realized a week before the flight that her son's passport had expired. she was looking for apartments online through the state department. and there was not passport agency appointment anywhere in the country. she was willing to fly. tell us what's going on? and how bad is this back log? >> i think it's unprecedented from what i've seen. for me, i haven't seen this in 40 years. i mean, i haven't seen this since -- i haven't seen in my lifetime a pandemic, so i think the state department in all fairness, to them is really suffering from the aftermath of ...

Contract workers demand job permanency Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA Contract workers, who have been working at the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College Hospital, on Tuesday appealed to the Collector seeking job permanency and other relief measures for undertaking COVID-19 duty. In their petition, the workers under a private agency, who have been employed in various roles including lab technicians, said they had been involved in COVID-19 related works for over a year and several among them had contracted the disease. The petitioners said they had not been provided with any r...

Immigrants and workers of color are especially likely to say they'd rather be permanent employees, despite executives wanting the opposite.

Offtake from Coal India Ltd (CIL) fell more than a fifth in April as the second wave of the pandemic left several contract workers battling the deadly infection

Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Tuesday (April 27) to increase minimum wage to $15 per hour for individuals working on federal contracts. ABC News reports all federal agencies will need to implement the $15 minimum wage contracts by March 30, 2022 in adherence with the executive order. The current minimum wage for federal contract workers is $10.95, having been raised to $10.10 under former President Barack Obama and later indexed due to inflation. Many federal contract workers already make more than the current set minimum wage, but the executive order will provide a boost to low...