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Jeddalyn Ramos, a 30-year-old from the Philippines worked for four months at a CommuniCare-owned short-term and senior rehab facility in Pittsburgh in 2022 and paid $15,555.45 in fees when she quit her job.

After paying the fee, Ramos was sued for $100,000 or more by CommuniCare for quitting her job before the three years required by her employment agreement.

So she paid back the training fee and then they sued her for more? WTF.

Also, I can't tell if are there differences in training fees vs immigration/lawyer fees. One of the quotes made it sound like the cost was about getting the employee over to the USA, and not the training. I can't tell if that is actually TRAP fees or a different class of fee. I didn't realize that the were not H1B visas. If a company sponsors legal fees for a more permanent type of visa, should there be an expectation to pay those back if the employee doesn't stay in the position for a certain amount of time as long as not punitive and properly itemized and paid by the employer to the law firm (assuming not in house immigration lawyers).

The nurses arrive to the US with EB-3 visas, which do not link their immigration status to their employer like other visa programs, so they can work elsewhere.

3 year contract requirement seems insane and fuck the employer for clawing back full cost, but I could also see it being a challenge if company A pays the legal fees to get the visa and then competitive company B poaches those workers in 3 months. Not what happens in this case, but could understand some justification for a clawback on those legal visa/immigration fees.

Yeah, it's easy on web. A bit of a pain via app. Thanks for taking the initiative to make the link though!

Is there an easy way to do that via sync app?

Yes. That is why I said the Israel response employed is not justifiable.

It's not just rape but the mutilation. Here's one instance of mutilation and torture from the article:

The first victim she said she saw was a young woman with copper-color hair, blood running down her back, pants pushed down to her knees. One man pulled her by the hair and made her bend over. Another penetrated her, Sapir said, and every time she flinched, he plunged a knife into her back.

She said she then watched another woman “shredded into pieces.” While one terrorist raped her, she said, another pulled out a box cutter and sliced off her breast.

“One continues to rape her, and the other throws her breast to someone else, and they play with it, throw it, and it falls on the road,” Sapir said.

Yes, Israel has their history of atrocity to with events like the Sabra and Shatila Massacre. But with barbarism like this, I think Israel has justification and obligation to respond with military force. They are not responding with justifiable military measure and will also need to be held to account.

I posted this in world news. Lots of downvotes and what aboutism that acts like Hamas didn't do this. https://p.lemmy.world/post/lemmy.world/10065818

I don't think we are in disagreement. Just misunderstanding what specifically I was responding to. Also, my account or description isn't a justification for this type of belief. But the reality is some people do become more religious in times of struggle. Not sure why I'm being downvoted for that.

I'm trivializing the what about ism, especially when the what about ism is incredibly vague.

There was also a comment "if any god at all." I am very familiar with theodicy questioms and euthyphro questions. And it's not a new concept that end times mentality or need for salvation in dire times actually can push some people to religion.

Yup. Netflix was icing on the cake that was cable. Now streaming is becoming the cake. The cost or revenue of the cake needs to be the same for the biz to run.

So Conservative Colin Powell was wrong advocating for affirmative action and other programs to help create a more equitable society?

Or David Frum writing for the Atlantic as a conservative... I guess that magazine is secretly GOP shill.

Cool. Source? Also this is a news article about a specific event. That's why they are describing and framing the article of how Hamas did it on that day.

I don't understand why folks think that posting articles that document one side's atrocities is implicitly advocating for or justifying the other side. That is just the scope of the article and we need accuracy to make sense of all the shit going on.

I went to a Lutheran University. Entered with some C.S Lewis style views, exited agnostic AF. But it was my religion and philosophy professors with Masters of Divinity that really pushed me in that direction. Despite exiting less religious than I entered, I exited with more respect for religious thought than when I entered.

Channels are TV Programmers have. Studios technically can be independent of the programmer channel since the programmer orders the rv show production from the studio. The distribution platform was cable or broadcast (over the air). What folks seem to want is a cable package all over again, just cheaper and without hardware fees and without ads. Not sure how you can have all 3 of those things though. If you cut ads, it probably looks just as expensive if not more expensive than cable. The economics of ESPN worked due to it being bundled in every basic cable package. If you go a la carte I don't think the sports fans will like the price that is no longer subsidized by all the bundles of folks that don't watch sports.

Ironically, it's probably in part due to how shit the world is you hope there is a god.

Yeah. Folks don't understand theology and exegesis in religion. The critics of religion are guilty of the same problem the evangelical right: biblical literalism. Literalism is a modern method of interpretation where texts historically read as "mythos" arr now read as "logos".

You should talk to some ELCA Lutheran's or Unitarian Universalists. Not all Christians are bad.

This is some crazy partisan shit.

"Nearly every act of racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, antisemitism or other bigotry ever committed on earth has been at the hands of conservatives."

Let's talk about first and second wave feminists or terfs like Sheila Jeffreys. Or who pushed Don't Ask Don't Tell policies. Or some the unsavory views of Theodore Roosevelt. There are so many instances of progressives and liberals getting it wrong and causing harm. Conservatives do sometimes get it right if they are consistent. This current brand of American conservatism is bonkers though.