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Secretary of State Antony Blinken instructed State Department employees to refrain from using gendered terms such as “mother, “father” and “manpower” in a recent internal memo, according to a report. The Biden administration official argued in the memo that gender is a social construct and that a person’s gender identity “may or may not correspond with one’s sex assigned at birth,” according to the Feb. 5 missive. The note was obtained by National Review and titled: “Modeling DEIA: Gender Identity Best Practices

Phil Gurtler, a public affairs officer for the Great Lakes at the U.S. Coast Guard station in Cleveland, said a manpower shortage nationwide is forcing the decision to restore staffing and other resources to levels they should be in areas where service calls are highest. “We are going to reallocate some of the personnel and assets,” he said. On average, he explained, staffing at all locations is down by about 10 percent from what the Coast Guard feels a station should have to be “optimally manned.” The numbers reflect the growing challenge of recruiting people into the military over the...

WASHINGTON — It's the "most wide-ranging investigation" in Justice Department history: the unprecedented manhunt for hundreds of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Donald Trump's behalf on Jan. 6, 2021, and the criminal inquiry into efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power. It's also a logistical nightmare. As cases against Capitol rioters work their way through the court system and a federal grand jury hears testimony about Trump’s role in Jan. 6, some federal officials are raising concerns that it could bring the already stretched investigation of Jan. 6 to a breaking point. The Justice Department has asked...

After a violent week of fighting in school that saw 23 students arrested in three days, Southwood High School parents knew something had to change. Some dads decided to take matters into their own hands. They formed Dads on Duty — a group of about 40 dads who take shifts spending time at the school in Shreveport, Louisiana... ..."I immediately felt a form of safety," one of the students said. ..."You ever heard of 'a look?'" one student asked while describing a "power" they claimed all dads have...

US President Barack Obama has ordered a tripling of manpower in coastal areas where oil has washed ashore or threatens to within 24 hours. Speaking on a tour of oil-hit areas, Mr Obama said the US would "do whatever it takes" to help people whose lives had been affected by the disaster. He said the outcome of the "top kill" procedure to seal the leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico was not yet known. But scientists were working on a back up plan in case it failed, he said. Earlier, BP's chief executive Tony Hayward said the outcome of...

You're hired—next year Apr 30th 2009 | NEW YORK From The Economist print edition The recession is changing the way American firms recruit people IT SOUNDS like something for a racing driver, rather than a company in a recession. But Allan McKisson of Manpower, an employment-services company, insists that companies should be adopting a “ramp-up plan” and hiring new talent now, to ensure that they are firing on all cylinders when the economy rebounds. According to a survey carried out by Watson Wyatt, a consulting firm, three-quarters of American companies have implemented a hiring freeze. But that means around a...

MANPOWER is a global staffing agency with about 4,500 offices in 80 countries and territories that place workers into permanent, temporary and contract jobs. In 2007, the company had $21 billion in revenue worldwide. Although Manpower is based in Milwaukee, where it was established 60 years ago, it derives 67 percent of its revenue from Europe. Jeffrey A. Joerres became the company’s chief executive in 1999 and chairman in 2001. In a recent interview, he spoke about the global employment outlook for a wide range of industries. Q. What are your tips for job seekers in what is shaping up...

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2007 – Today’s citizen-soldiers, -sailors, -airmen and -Marines are committed to serving the country, but they need the manpower, training and equipment required to carry out their missions, their chiefs told Congress today. The top officers in the Army Reserve, Naval Reserve, Air Force Reserve and Marine Forces Reserve urged the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee to support the reserve budget requests to maintain viable reserve forces. Lt. Gen. Jack Stultz, the Army Reserve chief, noted his force’s 22,000 soldiers are deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and 18 other countries worldwide. That’s in addition to about 7,500 Army...

Two days of Capitol Hill hearings on the current and future roles and missions of the National Guard and Reserves have launched a comprehensive, year-long assessment of the use of the nation’s Guard and Reserve Components at home and abroad. The hearings, which concluded today [9 March], were conducted by the independent Commission on the National Guard and Reserves. The 13-member Commission has been charged by Congress to recommend changes in the laws and policies under which the Guard and Reserves operate, to ensure that they are tasked, organized, trained, equipped, compensated, and supported to best meet the nation’s security...

/13/2006 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The Air Force Manpower Agency activated four new manpower squadrons to more effectively meet the needs of today’s expeditionary Air Force and to better position itself to support future capabilities. The 5th Manpower Requirements Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., and the 4th MRS at Buckley Annex, Colo., held formal activation ceremonies in January. The 2nd MRS at NASA-Langley Research Center, Va., and the 3rd MRS at Scott AFB, Ill., will have formal activation ceremonies later this spring. “These new squadrons have a clear mission: to determine Air Force manpower...

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WASHINGTON, July 8 - The Army is looking for a few good sailors and airmen. Actually, more than just a few. In what some military experts see as another sign of how the Army's commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan have strained it, the service for the first time will soon begin aggressively recruiting thousands of sailors and airmen who are otherwise scheduled to leave the Navy and Air Force because of cutbacks. Advertisement Under a new program called Operation Blue to Green, the Army plans to offer bonuses of up to $10,000, in some cases, and four weeks of extra...

GIs marching away from re-enlistment War may have some Fort Carson troops leaving the ranks In-Depth Coverage By Dick Foster, Rocky Mountain News COLORADO SPRINGS - Army re-enlistments have dropped suddenly and dramatically at Fort Carson and several other posts where combat units have recently returned from Iraq. The surprising decline within the past 21/2 months has jolted recruiters and military analysts and provoked questions about the war's effect on the Army's recruiting ability. Since Fort Carson units began coming home in April, post recruiters have met only 57 percent of their quota for re-enlisting first-term soldiers for a second...

<p>U.S. Employers Plan More Hiring in Third Quarter, Manpower Says June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Thirty percent of U.S. employers plan to add workers in the third quarter, the most since the last three months of 2000, when the recession ended, according to a survey released by Manpower Inc.</p>

Confidence among US business leaders is stronger than it has been for 20 years, according to a long-running measure of boardroom attitudes, as rising profits finally encourage companies to start hiring. The quarterly survey by the Conference Board confirms last week's official employment data suggesting concerns about a jobless recovery may be waning. In recent quarters, companies have been wary of hiring staff, preferring to make greater use of existing capacity, but continued growth and record profitability appears to be convincing managers that productivity improvements alone may not be enough to meet rising demand. Half the chief executives who responded...

<p>NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - In light of the strongest monthly employment report in four years, a recent survey on hiring expectations seems more resonant.</p> <p>Prompted by strong demand for their products and services, U.S. employers nationwide say they will soon hire more workers than they have in the past three years.</p>

MILWAUKEE - People looking for work this spring could find the strongest U.S. job market in more than three years, even as companies remain reluctant to hire, a new survey shows. Roughly one in four employers plan to add workers in the second quarter of the year to keep pace with increased demand for their products or services, according to a survey of 16,000 businesses by Manpower Inc., set for release Tuesday. "Someone looking for a job no doubt will have an easier time now than in recent memory, than in the past two or three years," said Jeffrey Joerres,...

PLANT CITY - A California company says it wants to bring workers from the other side of the world to harvest crops in Hillsborough County. If Agrilabor succeeds, the company could be the first to bring laborers from Thailand to the sandy fields of Florida, said Walter Jants, a labor specialist with Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation. Thais would come under the federal guest worker program that allows companies to bring foreigners into this country to do farm labor on a temporary basis when a sufficient number of domestic workers aren't available. Florida's history with the guest worker program dates...