An increasing number of bogus job listings and unscrupulous employers are exploiting the government-run Hello Work job centers as high unemployment continues to grip the country.
Reports have surfaced that applicants are sometimes talked into taking jobs other than those advertised when they show up for interviews.
Instead of being offered full-time employment, some job-seekers are pressured to work part time. Others have taken full-time positions only to find the jobs gone a month later and themselves transformed into "self-employed agents."
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