News and Advice

Foreign worker visas finally gone for year
In another sign that the economy might be turning around, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services has filled this year’s quota of 65,000 applications for H-1b guest worker visas, which allow companies to hire foreign workers for jobs they say they cannot fill with US-born applicants. (By Hiawatha Bray, Boston Globe)

While job growth continues to lag, work on your employability
Q. I keep reading that the economy is picking up yet I still can’t find a job and I have been out since February of 2009. When will the “improving economy’’ translate into jobs in Massachusetts? (By Patricia Hunt Sinacole, Boston Globe)

Staff perplexed by the boss’s response to Boss’s Day lunch
Q. When we tried to order lunch in the office for Boss’s Day, our boss wouldn’t let us pay for hers (we each paid for our own). This may seem nice, but isn’t it somewhat graceless to turn down a small gift of this sort? (We each would have contributed about $2.) If people genuinely want to do something kind, ... (By Peter Post, Boston Globe)