News of Workers Compensation

an employer who has hired you as a full time worker just stopped work with no definite date to work again. how long are they allowed to go without working their employees? I just dont feel that it is right to do that to someone with no compensation

Question 1.
Textile manufacturing in New England was perhaps most advanced by which of the following?

a. standardizing machine parts for factories

b. increasing workers' unions

c.keeping families on their farms

d.providing meals for factory workers



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Question 2.

Which of the following is an effect of the assembly line?

a. It made workers want to return to farms.

b. It made clothing more expensive to produce.

c. It increased demands for worker compensation.

d.It ...

thanks for any help you can give me!
1. The Suez Canal, built in 1869 largely by French engineers and French capital, was significant because it
A. gave Egypt an agricultural advantage by putting hundreds of thousands of new acres under cultivation.
B. reduced travel time from Europe to India from months to weeks.
C. connected the Mediterranean with the Persian Gulf.
D. connected the Nile with the Red Sea.
2. With regards to the ...

7/12/12 the blaze: General Motors announced this month its auto sales increased by 16 percent in June, its best monthly sales gain since 2008. Considering all the company has been through, and the fact that it still owes taxpayers approximately $25 billion in TARP repayments, a 16 percent boost in sales sounds like good news, right?

7/5/12 http://nlpc.org/stories/2012/07/05/gm%E2%80%99s-government-sales-and-truck-inventory-rise:
“We now learn that government purchases of GM vehicles rose a whopping 79% in June.”

Obama wants ...

I was reading about the recent conviction of a couple who kept people in servitude. An article on Wikipedia says:
It was alleged that the victims were "vulnerable homeless individuals" who were offered accommodation and work and then moved into "virtually uninhabitable" caravans. Prosecuting solicitor Graham Dono told Cheltenham Magistrates' Court: "They then required them to do manual work for excessive hours for payments of no more than £20 a day and in some cases ...

I have these questions for my Economics class but I read and read the book and can't find the answer

A. Social Security payment to eldery citizens
B. welfare benefits distributed to the the poor
C. Outright grants from government to recipients
D. payments to clerical workers hired by government
E. Unemployment compensation benefits

In the above question, I believe the answer is D but not completely sure, thanks for the help.
and the other ...

Why are the majority of taxpayers forced to pay higher wages to goverment workers? Wouldn't correcting this pay discrepancy go a long way to fixing federal, state, and local government fiscal Problems?

According to the most recent Employer Costs for Employee Compensation survey from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, as of December 2009, state and local government employees earned total compensation of $39.60 an hour, compared to $27.42 an hour for private industry workers-a ...

I have these questions for my Economics class but I read and read the book and can't find the answer

A. Social Security payment to eldery citizens
B. welfare benefits distributed to the the poor
C. Outright grants from government to recipients
D. payments to clerical workers hired by government
E. Unemployment compensation benefits

In the above question, I believe the answer is D but not completely sure, thanks for the help.
and the other ...

Estimates indicate that upwards of 16,500 new federal IRS bureaucrats will be hired to enforce Obamacare. How much will that cost us taxpayers, at $120,000 per worker? 2 billion. Democrats are perfectly happy with that. The new workers, through their unions, will give all their political contributions to democrats and will, of course, vote democrat, who will, for their votes, pay them more and more in the future. Pretty cool scam, no? Straight out of ...