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U.S.-based multinational financial institution JPMorgan Chase & Co. has announced it will lift its ban on hiring individuals due to their unvaccinated status against COVID-19. In a memo obtained by Bloomberg News, JPMorgan said it will also end mandatory testing for unvaccinated employees by April 4, and the company's mask mandate will become voluntary for both vaccinated and unvaccinated staff. JPMorgan’s memo also noted that the company’s New York City employees are still required to follow the city’s vaccination requirements. The mandate will be required unless the city lifts its vaccine order, according to Bloomberg News. “Across the U.S., as...

House Republicans are aiming at the Internal Revenue Service this week, taking up four bills to ensure integrity in hiring and better customer service. “We have recently learned…that IRS employees that have been fired for misconduct have been rehired” in the last several years, Rep. Kristi Noem (R-S.D.) told a news conference on Tuesday. “Now some of this may involve falsifying documents — they failed to pay their own taxes. They may have been fired for accessing sensitive taxpayer information without permission. In fact, one employee had missed up to eight weeks of work without permission, had actually stamped on...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A paraplegic state employee who was laid off and forced to give up his government-owned wheelchair will get his job - and wheelchair - back, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Friday. The Department of Natural Resources said it would comply with the governor's order to rehire mechanic Arthur "Red" Burchyett, who has repaired equipment at a wildlife refuge near Jonesboro for 24 years. He was among about 120 workers laid off since October due to budget cuts. Reacting to news accounts about the man's plight, Blagojevich said the state needs to balance common-sense fiscal decisions with compassion....

<p>All tenured, certified teachers who worked in Rapides Parish public schools last school year will be rehired, despite the School Board's budget decision to cut more than 100 teaching positions.</p> <p>School officials report that retirements and resignations opened up enough spaces to offer contracts to all those displaced teachers who have not yet been rehired.</p>