New Legislation: Disclosure of American Firms Offshore Hiring
Author: John Duckgeischel
on February 2, 2012 - 12:03 AM
Newly introduced legislation
in the U.S. House of representatives would require that American public
companies share information on the number of workers they employee both overseas
and in the United States. U.S. Rep Gary
Peters (D-Mich.) sponsored the bill as a way to discourage offshore hiring. "We need to do
everything in our power to fight the outsourcing of American jobs and this bill
gives consumers and investors the information they need to make an informed
choice," wrote Peters in a statement.
The bill has bi-partisan support and in addition to Peters, it is
co-sponsored by Rep. Jerry McNerney (R-Calif.) and Tim Bishop (D-NY). Up
until last year IBM, reported breakouts on U.S. and overseas employment
numbers, however it now only reports total worldwide numbers. In the Microsoft’s last annual report filed
on June 30, 2011, it stated that it had 54,000 employees in the U.S. and 36,000
overseas. For the year covered in the
report, Microsoft domestic employment was flat, while overseas employment grew
by about 1000 workers.
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Google Explains New Privacy Policies
Author: John Duckgeischel
on January 31, 2012 - 9:58 PM
In response to Congressional
concerns about its March 1st privacy policy consolidation plans,
Google sent a 13 page letter addressed to eight members of the House of Representatives. A blog posted by Pablo Chavez, Google’s
director of public policy, describes the letter as a clarification of the
objectives of consolidating 60 separate policies into a singular policy. Although gather user supplier information for
one service in conjunction with another service may seem somewhat benign,
concerns are being expressed loudly as Google is currently under plenty of
government scrutiny. Government
officials in both Europe and the U.S. are examining the possibility that Google
search is being run as an anti-competitive business.
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