By Scott Jaschik. The University of Notre Dame on Tuesday announced that it will donate $100,000 toward the reconstruction of Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, which was damaged by a serious fire Monday.
The Reverend John I. Jenkins, president of the university, issued this statement: “We are deeply saddened to see the damage to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, a church whose exquisite Gothic architecture has for centuries raised hearts and minds to God. We join in prayer with the faithful of the cathedral and all of France as they begin the work of rebuilding. We are reminded of the words of our founder, Holy Cross Father Edward Sorin, a French immigrant, who, after a terrible fire destroyed our campus in 1879, said: 'Tomorrow we will begin again and build it bigger, and when it is built, we will put a gold dome on top with a golden statue of the Mother of God so that everyone who comes this way will know to whom we owe whatever great future this place has." More...
U of Notre Dame Pledges Help to Notre Dame in Paris
Comment les employeurs mobilisent-ils les contrats très courts ?
D’après l’enquête Offre d’emploi et recrutement (Ofer 2016), 20 % des établissements qui recrutent en contrat de plus d’un mois déclarent également avoir recours à des contrats plus courts – CDD d’un mois ou moins. Le principal motif évoqué par les employeurs pour expliquer leur recours à ces contrats de très courte durée est le remplacement d’un salarié absent.
Afin de pourvoir leurs emplois en CDD d’un mois ou moins, 74 % de ces établissements font appel à d’anciens salariés. D’ailleurs, près de 60 % d’entre eux disposent d’un vivier de personnes travaillant régulièrement pour eux en contrats très courts.
Le temps consacré à la recherche et à la sélection des candidats est souvent relativement court, puisque 27 % des recruteurs y consacrent moins d’un jour, et la moitié quatre jours au plus. 57 % des établissements fortement utilisateurs de contrats très courts enchaînent fréquemment ces contrats avec la même personne, alors que cette part n’est que de 24 % pour l’ensemble des établissements utilisateurs de ces contrats. Les contrats de très courte durée concernent plus souvent des postes de manœuvres et d’ouvriers spécialisés ou d’employés et de personnels de services.
Après un CDD d’un mois ou moins, seuls 21 % des établissements déclarent proposer fréquemment à leurs salariés un CDD plus long, et 16 % un CDI. Les employeurs fortement utilisateurs de contrats de très courte durée sont plus susceptibles de poursuivre la relation d’emploi avec leurs salariés sous ce type de contrat que ceux qui y recourent moins fréquemment.
Another Speaker Unable to Appear at Middlebury
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Anxiety Up Among Students, Study Finds
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Middlebury's Strange April
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Free-Tuition Idea Spreads in Med Schools
By Scott Jaschik. A year after NYU's medical school went tuition-free, Washington University in St. Louis announces that scholarships will eliminate tuition charges for more than half of new M.D. students. More...
University Rejects Calls to Fire Camille Paglia
By Scott Jaschik. Students and others demand her dismissal because of statements on Me Too and on transgender people. More...
Protest Over White Nationalist Grad Student
By Scott Jaschik. Students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Wednesday held a protest over the revelation in leaked documents that a graduate student is a member of Identity Evropa, a white nationalist group, AL.com reported. More...
Entering Campus Building While Black
By Scott Jaschik. Barnard places on leave campus safety officers and a supervisor involved in incident with black student that many are calling racial profiling. More...
