Business and Economy

Communicating Armband: The New Business Card?

Everyone's been in the position where you leave for a business trip but forget to take your business cards with you (at least I hope I'm not the only one). So the geniuses over at MIT have developed the iBand, a "wearable device for handshake-augmented interpersonal information exchange".

Business & Economy Eomployment

Supreme Court rules on deportation, employment retaliation cases

], an employee does not need to have suffered an ultimate employment decision - denial of promotion or termination, for example. Instead, an employee claiming to have suffered retaliation for complaining about discrimination under Title VII can show retaliation by reassignment to a less attractive job or temporary suspension without pay. The Court affirmed the Sixth Circuit's

International Employment

Immigration Agents Raid Dulles Airport

WHILE IT WAS not made clear where the workers were hired, who the contractors who allegedly hired them to work at the airport construction site were or whether sufficient checks of the employment status were made by employers, Fobbs said that potential employers throughout the country who hire workers without legal authorization to work in the United States could face criminal charges.