With unemployment at the highest level in decades employers should be having no problem filling open positions with top quality applicants, right? Not necessarily.

Krispy Kreme and American Apparel both face large fines after ICE audit finds they hired illegal workers. Fines mark a shift in ICE enforcement policies from going after workers to employers. More Audits to come.

South Carolina's new legislation requiring private employers to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees with E-Verify or with a South Carolina-issued driver's license goes into effect today. Governor Sanford's recent Buenos Aires tryst will not change this, contrary to the hopes of some employers.

 Information released in the past few weeks seems to show that the economy may finally be on the rebound, or at least, have hit bottom.

The effective date of the final rule requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to use E-Verify has been delayed a fourth time until September 8, 2009, thus further damaging the credibility of the program.

33.2 million individuals or one in nine Americans received food stamps in the month of March 2009

BK's "the King" pays JobApp a visit after hearing that over 600 BK restaurants have embraced JobApp

 In December 2008 (yes, 2008!) the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) issued a press release that, lo and behold, the United States economy was, in fact, experiencing a recession that began (officially) in December 2007.

 Since December 2007, when the current recession began, a bit over 30 million Americans have actually filed first-time jobless claims.