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Getting your wages garnished is an embarrassing situation, often made worse but at least a perceived threat of losing your job. While most employers know that they can’t threaten job loss if an employee’s wages are being garnished, that doesn’t stop many of them from making the garnishee’s life uncomfortable about the whole thing. In…

In the 1997 sci-fi thriller Gattaca, virtually every job on earth was determined by a person’s genetic makeup. With the map of the human genome now available for download, science fiction may rapidly become science fact. But U.S. employment laws, to be phased in this month and next September, have stepped in to attempt to eliminate…

Whether you are a college student, or you have one, you know that only full-time college students generally continue to receive health insurance benefits after the age of 19, with no coverage for any student who has gaps in that full-time status. But that is about to change for students undergoing health problems. Starting next…

If you’ve recently lost your job, you’re not alone. Recent statistics from the Department of Labor on the level of weekly unemployment compensation claims reveal that the job market is a basket case these days, and that unemployment levels are soaring. On August 7, the Labor Department announced that new applications for unemployment claims rose…