My error: The sentence should read "... yet must *comply* with all relevant US employment laws...."
This is one of those instances in which the author knew a word was missing from the draft and intended to add it, but somehow managed to post the unedited version anyway. Sorry. --Mike On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Mike Godwin <mgod...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > sfmammamia writes: >> >> >> A bit of a mystery -- in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, page E-8, >> there's >> an ad for the Wikimedia Foundation Head of Communications position. This >> ad >> does not appear online, at least I could not find a companion posting, >> either on the foundation site or on Yahoo (the Chronicle's online ad >> partner). Perhaps once the staff is back from the Labor Day holiday there >> will be clarification? Or did I just miss something? >> > > Hi, sfmammamia. Here's the nutshell answer to your question: because the > Wikimedia Foundation is an international organization that hires staff from > around the world and yet must with all relevant US employment law, we > sometimes need to adhere to specific legal and administrative requirements. > In other words, sometimes we must run employment ads, such as the posting of > this position, in a newspaper like the SF Chronicle or elsewhere. > > This shouldn't be interpreted as a sign of any shakeup. Jay, for example, > is not leaving the Wikimedia Foundation -- he's doing a great job, and we > expect and hope he will stay with us, doing the same great work, for a long > time. > > > --Mike Godwin > General Counsel > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l