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 <mgodwin(a)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
>
>