Tag: Employment
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29 Job Agencies Cited as Slackers By MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, March 27, 1997 Job-seeking New Yorkers are being ripped off by unscrupulous employment agencies that charge illegal fees, refuse to give refunds and violate other regulations, a new city investigation shows. Six consumer investigators who went undercover and applied for jobs through 29 employment agencies this month uncovered violations of city rules at all…
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TRACK WORKERS UNDER SCRUTINY; REGULATORS VOW BETTER CHECKING
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, November 21, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page B03 The New Jersey Racing Commission plans to meet with state and federal agencies in a effort to tighten up its worker licensing procedures, after 70 Meadowlands Racetrack stable hands were taken…
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FIRED WORKER CHARGED WITH ATTACKING BOSS
By MICHAEL O. ALLEN | Saturday, November 2, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B | NEWS | Page A02 A 31-year-old man who police said attacked his supervisor when she fired him for showing up drunk for work at the Dwight-Englewood School was being held in the Bergen County Jail on Friday.…
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PSYCHIATRIC DEFENSE UNCERTAIN FOR POST OFFICE MURDER SUSPECT
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 13, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A20 Joseph M. Harris is one of six inmates in the Bergen County Jail and its annex who have been convicted or accused of murder. Bergen County Sheriff Jack Terhune said Harris…
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AFTER THE KILLING SPREE, SUICIDE WATCH FOR SUSPECT
By Bill Sanderson and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Saturday, October 12, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A01 Joseph M. Harris, the fired postal worker accused of killing four people early Thursday, was under a suicide watch Friday in a single cell in the Bergen County…
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KILLER’S HOME WAS WELL-KNOWN; HIS NEIGHBORS HAD COMPLAINED
By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Friday, October 11, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 1 Star | NEWS Page A11 Type: PROFILE The white brick and stucco home at Derrom and 14th avenues where Joseph M. Harris lived has been inspected many times by city zoning officials following complaints by neighbors that…
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NEW LAW ON SWEATSHOPS CALLED WEAK
NJ Labor Commissioner Raymond Bramucci admitted new law against sweatshops isn’t strong enough.
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TROOPERS BEING TRAINED TO DISPATCH; THEY’D REPLACE LAID-OFF CIVILIANS
he state police on Thursday began training 29 officers in dispatching in the wake of notices sent to 123 of the agency’s 127 civilian dispatchers that they would be laid off next month.
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POLICE LAYOFFS MAY FOIL TETERBORO PLAN
County Executive William “Pat” Schuber’s proposal to lay off eight county police officers this year could derail Teterboro’s plan to have the department absorb four of its officers, officials say.
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HOSPITAL WORKERS ILL FROM FUMES; OPERATING ROOMS TEMPORARILY SHUT
The Valley Hospital operating-room staff was reassigned and all non-emergency operations were suspended Thursday after six employees were treated for illness from an unknown odor, a hospital spokeswoman said.