#labor certification

[lesbianralzarek]

i am now a board-certified healthcare worker

[alphacrone]

lucy & lockwood would 100% get married in the middle of a job while fighting a ghost a la will and elizabeth in potc and george would 100% be ordained bc he knows his dumbass friends very well & is prepared

[gaysamurai]

Kinda dont wanna think abt the number of “small independent merch artists” who outsource their production to overseas factories that exploit their workers

[miss-morland]

i hate it here i hate it here i hate it here

im so fucking tired of overextending myself and bending over backwards to help and “support the team” and receiving absolutely no recompense for it. my managers and coworkers are appreciative and they let me know, but none of it ever amounts to anything other than brownie points. im gonna work my ass off for another year and get to yearly reviews and they’ll tell me im one of the best in the department and they really rely on me. and then corporate is gonna give me a raise of 20 cents and a middle finger.

[arielmagicesi]

hey, do you want to lose money AND your will to live all for the opportunity to make very little money doing a job that everyone warns you will sap you of your will to live? try applying for teacher certification oh my GOD

[unexpectedyarns]

Let’s add truckers to the list.

I’m a long-haul trucker. We don’t see our families for a week (or two, or three). We have a federally-mandated clock that keeps track of our day to the second.

We have to maneuver dangerous traffic every day (some of you forgot how to drive after you took your driving test, and some of you are just dicks. Like use your turn signal at least so we all know which dick move you’re going to make this time.) We have mostly only lousy food available in truck stops, and a lot of the time, no safe place to park for the mandated 10-hours down to sleep.

We have to do complex math to balance up to 45,000 pounds of freight because there are things like weight-distribution bridge laws. We have to know how air brakes work and how to listen for things like air leaks that could cost lives, and how to pre-trip inspect our vehicles for any flaw that might also cost lives. We have to know how to maneuver up and down mountains without over heating our engines or brakes, which could catch fire.

We drive in all types of weather and at all hours of the day or night, as our clocks dictate. We have to know how to safely maneuver a total of 80,000 pounds, 75-feet long vehicle, and stop it in time to not hit your panicky ass because you hit your brakes because you were messing with your cell phone.

We have to move over for anything slower, or someone on the side of the road so we don’t kill them. Our turn signals are not bids for attention, they are statements of intent… yet many of you will cut us off, endangering your own lives and the lives of other people, and then go right on about your business not even realizing that if not for our skills, you would have died today.

We are the professionals, and y’all wouldn’t have a single thing to buy at the store if we didn’t bring it. YOU are actually in OUR way.

[indexblogging]

What Is the Perm Labor Certification Process in NYC?

New York City is not only a cultural and financial hub; it's also a melting pot of diverse talents from around the globe. For foreign workers aiming to secure employment in the U.S., understanding the perm labor certification process nyc is crucial. The Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) is a mandatory step in acquiring a green card, ensuring that hiring foreign workers does not adversely affect job opportunities for U.S. citizens.

Understanding the Eligibility Criteria for Employers and Foreign Workers

Before embarking on the PERM labor certification process, it's essential for both employers and foreign workers to understand the eligibility criteria. These criteria ensure that the job offered genuinely requires a foreign worker and that no qualified U.S. worker is displaced.

Employers in NYC must demonstrate that they have made a genuine effort to hire a U.S. worker. This involves advertising the position and proving that no qualified domestic candidate is available. For the foreign worker, possessing the specific skills, qualifications, and experience required for the role is paramount.

Additionally, both parties must comply with salary requirements, ensuring that wages meet prevailing standards to avoid undercutting the local labor market. This process involves rigorous documentation, underscoring the importance of thorough preparation and understanding of guidelines.

Detailed Breakdown of the PERM Application Process

The PERM labor certification process is multifaceted, involving several key stages. Initially, employers must conduct pre-filing recruitment efforts to ensure no qualified U.S. workers are available. This step is critical and can include posting job ads in newspapers, online platforms, and using state workforce agencies.

Following recruitment, the employer files ETA Form 9089 with the Department of Labor (DOL), providing detailed information about the job and the foreign worker. This form is pivotal, as it encapsulates the role's duties, requirements, and the recruitment process.

Once filed, the DOL reviews the application to ensure compliance with all regulations. This review includes checking for any discrepancies or insufficient documentation. If approved, this certification allows the employer to proceed with the next steps in the green card process, significantly impacting both HR practices and the foreign worker's future.

Recent Updates and Changes in the PERM Process

Keeping abreast of recent updates in the PERM process is vital for both employers and foreign workers in NYC. Changes in labor market conditions or regulatory adjustments can affect application requirements and procedures.

Recent trends indicate a shift towards more stringent documentation standards, with increased scrutiny on recruitment processes and job requirement justifications. Staying informed about these changes ensures compliance and increases the likelihood of a successful application.

Employers should regularly consult official DOL communications or legal advisories to understand how updates impact their specific circumstances. Proactive adaptation to these changes can position businesses and foreign workers for success in the competitive NYC labor market.

Conclusion

Navigating the PERM labor certification process in NYC is a complex but essential endeavor for employers and foreign workers aiming to bridge international talent with local opportunities. Understanding eligibility criteria, documenting accurately, and staying informed about recent updates are pivotal steps in this process.

[nationallawreview]

Administration Action Could Unravel the De Minimis Exception for Goods From China

Many e-commerce retailers are closely monitoring increasing bipartisan criticism of the Section 321 de minimis program. This program, which provides an exemption for goods valued at $800 or less destined to a single person on a given day, allows these goods to enter the US duty and tax-free without formal entry. While this expedited clearance process has been beneficial for many retailers,…

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Unlocking the Secrets of the Marriage Green Card: A Deep Dive

Embarking on the journey to obtain a Marriage Green Card involves understanding the complexities of the application process. This blog covers key aspects such as the significance of a Marriage Green Card, why a Marriage Green Card Lawyer is essential, and the top reasons applications may face denial. From eligibility criteria to potential pitfalls like inadequate documentation or suspicions of marriage fraud, the article provides valuable insights. The importance of seeking professional assistance from LGI Lawyers in Alexandria, Virginia, is emphasized, as they offer expert guidance to navigate the intricate immigration process and increase the chances of a successful outcome.

Read more at: https://lgilawyers.com/reasons-to-seek-professional-help-from-a-marriage-green-card-lawyer/

[door-handles]

Are you looking for a CSCS Labourer Green Card in UK?

Safety is the top priority in the construction industry. It is crucial for reducing accidents and injuries to make sure that each worker on a construction site is adequately trained and outfitted to manage the demands of the job. For laborers in particular, the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) card is an essential tool in this respect. In this post, we'll examine the laborer CSCS card's importance and how to get one from safetymark-training.co.uk, a reputable provider of Labourer Construction Skills Certification Scheme card training and certification.

Why Do I Need a CSCS Card?

Safety first: Work sites can be hazardous locations. Workers are frequently required to perform physically taxing work and may be exposed to a variety of dangers. You have been through the required training to work safely and responsibly if you possess a Labourer Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Green Card.

Legal Requirement: Construction firms and contractors mandate that all of their staff members possess current CSCS Green cards. Without it, it could be difficult for you to obtain work in the sector.

Enhanced Employability: Having a CSCS card on your CV increases your appeal to companies. It displays your dedication to safety and your readiness to make an investment in your own personal and professional growth.

What is a CSCS Card for Laborers?

For those who engage in laboring positions within the construction industry. It denotes that the cardholder has successfully completed the training and assessment necessary to carry out their obligations safely.

Through safetymark-training.co.uk, you can obtain a CSCS card for a labourer.

Registration: Visit safetymark-training.co.uk to sign up for the laborer Construction Skills Certification Scheme card training program in the first stage. You must choose a convenient training day and give your personal details.

Training: Offering thorough training programs designed with laborers' requirements in mind, safetymark-training.co.uk. On building sites, best practices, danger awareness, and health and safety laws will all be covered.

Assessment: You will undergo testing following the course to make sure you have learned the required information and abilities. A written exam and a hands-on ability test could be part of the evaluation.

Certification: Your Laborer CSCS card certification will be given to you once the evaluation has been successfully completed. Five years are allowed on this card.

Renewal: It's critical to renew your Laborer CSCS card every five years in order to keep it current. This guarantees that you remain up to date with industry standards and safety laws.

Conclusion: Through safetymark-training.co.uk, obtaining a Labourer CSCS card is a commitment to both professional development and safety in the construction sector. By spending money on training and certification, you increase not only your employability and professional opportunities but also your protection against future dangers. Keep in mind that safety should always come first in the construction industry, and that a CSCS card is your ticket to a safer and more prosperous profession.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss

Today (Oct 20), I'm in Charleston, WV at Charleston's Taylor Books from 12h-14h.

For a brief time this year, the bestselling "bitter lemon drink" on Amazon was "Release Energy," which consisted of the harvested urine of Amazon delivery drivers, rebottled for sale by Catfish UK prankster Oobah Butler in a stunt for a new Channel 4 doc, "The Great Amazon Heist":

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-great-amazon-heist

Collecting driver piss is surprisingly easy. Amazon, you see, puts its drivers on a quota that makes it impossible for them to drive safely, park conscientiously, or, indeed, fulfill their basic human biological needs. Amazon has long waged war on its employees' kidneys, marking down warehouse workers for "time off task" when they visit the toilets.

As tales of drivers pissing – and shitting! – in their vans multiplied, Amazon took decisive action. The company enacted a strict zero tolerance policy for drivers returning to the depot with bottles of piss in their vans.

That's where Butler comes in: the roads leading to Amazon delivery depots are lined with bottles of piss thrown out of delivery vans by drivers who don't want to lose their jobs, which made harvesting the raw material for "Release Energy" a straightforward matter.

Butler was worried that he wouldn't be able to list his product on Amazon because he didn't have the requisite "food and drinks licensing" certificates, so he listed his drink in Amazon's refillable pump dispenser category. But Amazon's systems detected the mismatch and automatically shifted the product into the drinks section.

Butler enlisted some confederates to place orders for his drink, and it quickly rocketed to the top of Amazon's listings for the category, which led to Amazon's recommendation engine pushing the item on people who weren't in on the gag. When these orders came in, Butler pulled the plug, but not before an Amazon rep telephoned him to pitch him turning packaging, shipping and fulfillment over to Amazon:

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-let-its-drivers-urine-be-sold-as-an-energy-drink/

The Release Energy prank was just one stunt Butler pulled for his doc; he also went undercover at an Amazon warehouse, during a period when Amazon hired an extra 1,000 workers for its warehouses in Coventry, UK, in a successful bid to dilute pro-union sentiment in his workforce in advance of a key union vote:

https://jacobin.com/2023/10/the-great-amazon-heist-oobah-butler-review

Butler's stint as an Amazon warehouse worker only lasted a couple of days, ending when Amazon recognized him and fired him.

The contrast between Amazon's ability to detect an undercover reporter and its inability to spot bottles of piss being marketed as bitter lemon energy drink says it all, really. Corporations like Amazon hire vast armies of "threat intelligence" creeps who LARP at being CIA superspies, subjecting employees and activists to intense and often illegal surveillance.

But while Amazon's defensive might is laser-focused on the threat of labor organizers and documentarians, the company can't figure out that one of its bestselling products is bottles of its tormented drivers' own urine.

In the USA, the FTC is suing Amazon for its monopolistic tactics, arguing that the company has found ways to raise prices and reduce quality by trapping manufacturers and sellers with its logistics operation, taking $0.45-$0.51 out of every dollar they earn and forcing them to raise prices at all retailers:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

The Release Energy stunt shows where Amazon's priorities are. Not only did Release Energy get listed on Amazon without any quality checks, the company actually nudged it into a category where it was more likely to be consumed by a person. The only notice the company took of Release Energy was in its logistics and manufacturing department – the part of the business that extracts the monopoly rents at issue in the FTC case – which tracked Butler down in order to sell him these services.

The drivers whose piss Butler collected don't work directly for Amazon, they work for a Delivery Service Partner. These DSPs are victims of a pyramid scheme that Amazon set up. DSP operators lease vans and pay to have them skinned in Amazon livery and studded with Amazon sensors. They take out long-term leases on depots, and hire drivers who dress in Amazon uniforms. Their drivers are minutely monitored by Amazon, down to the movements of their eyeballs.

But none of this is "Amazon" – it's all run by an "entrepreneur," whom Amazon can cut loose without notice, leaving them with unfairly terminated employees, outstanding workers' comp claims, a fleet of Amazon-skinned vehicles and unbreakable facilities leases:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

Speaking to Wired, Amazon denied that it forces its drivers to piss in bottles, but Butler clearly catches a DSP dispatcher telling drivers "If you pee in a bottle and leave it [in the vehicle], you will get a point for that" – that is, the part you get punished for isn't the peeing, it's the leaving.

Amazon's defense against the FTC is that it spares no effort to keep its marketplace safe. As Amazon spokesperson James Drummond says, they use "industry-leading tools to prevent genuinely unsafe products being listed." But the only industry-leading tools in evidence are tools to bust unions and screw suppliers.

In her landmark Yale Law Review paper, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," FTC Chair Lina Khan makes a brilliant argument that Amazon's alleged benefits to "consumers" are temporary at best, illusory at worst:

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

In Butler's documentary, Khan's hypothesis is thoroughly validated: here's a company extracting hundreds of billions from merchants who raise prices to compensate, and those monopoly rents are "invested" in union-busting and countermeasures against investigative journalists, while the tools to keep you from accidentally getting a bottle of piss in the mail are laughably primitive.

Truly, Amazon is the apex predator of the platform era:

https://pluralistic.net/ApexPredator

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/20/release-energy/#the-bitterest-lemon

My next novel is The Lost Cause, a hopeful novel of the climate emergency. Amazon won't sell the audiobook, so I made my own and I'm pre-selling it on Kickstarter!

[atittueball]

WTAF

[reasonsforhope]

In the Willamette Valley of Oregon, the long study of a butterfly once thought extinct has led to a chain reaction of conservation in a long-cultivated region.

The conservation work, along with helping other species, has been so successful that the Fender’s blue butterfly is slated to be downlisted from Endangered to Threatened on the Endangered Species List—only the second time an insect has made such a recovery.

[Note: "the second time" is as of the article publication in November 2022.]

To live out its nectar-drinking existence in the upland prairie ecosystem in northwest Oregon, Fender’s blue relies on the help of other species, including humans, but also ants, and a particular species of lupine.

After Fender’s blue was rediscovered in the 1980s, 50 years after being declared extinct, scientists realized that the net had to be cast wide to ensure its continued survival; work which is now restoring these upland ecosystems to their pre-colonial state, welcoming indigenous knowledge back onto the land, and spreading the Kincaid lupine around the Willamette Valley.

First collected in 1929 [more like "first formally documented by Western scientists"], Fender’s blue disappeared for decades. By the time it was rediscovered only 3,400 or so were estimated to exist, while much of the Willamette Valley that was its home had been turned over to farming on the lowland prairie, and grazing on the slopes and buttes.

Pictured: Female and male Fender’s blue butterflies.

Now its numbers have quadrupled, largely due to a recovery plan enacted by the Fish and Wildlife Service that targeted the revival at scale of Kincaid’s lupine, a perennial flower of equal rarity. Grown en-masse by inmates of correctional facility programs that teach green-thumb skills for when they rejoin society, these finicky flowers have also exploded in numbers.

[Note: Okay, I looked it up, and this is NOT a new kind of shitty greenwashing prison labor. This is in partnership with the Sustainability in Prisons Project, which honestly sounds like pretty good/genuine organization/program to me. These programs specifically offer incarcerated people college credits and professional training/certifications, and many of the courses are written and/or taught by incarcerated individuals, in addition to the substantial mental health benefits (see x, x, x) associated with contact with nature.]

The lupines needed the kind of upland prairie that’s now hard to find in the valley where they once flourished because of the native Kalapuya people’s regular cultural burning of the meadows.

While it sounds counterintuitive to burn a meadow to increase numbers of flowers and butterflies, grasses and forbs [a.k.a. herbs] become too dense in the absence of such disturbances, while their fine soil building eventually creates ideal terrain for woody shrubs, trees, and thus the end of the grassland altogether.

Fender’s blue caterpillars produce a little bit of nectar, which nearby ants eat. This has led over evolutionary time to a co-dependent relationship, where the ants actively protect the caterpillars. High grasses and woody shrubs however prevent the ants from finding the caterpillars, who are then preyed on by other insects.

Now the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde are being welcomed back onto these prairie landscapes to apply their [traditional burning practices], after the FWS discovered that actively managing the grasslands by removing invasive species and keeping the grass short allowed the lupines to flourish.

By restoring the lupines with sweat and fire, the butterflies have returned. There are now more than 10,000 found on the buttes of the Willamette Valley."

-via Good News Network, November 28, 2022