Mark Slussler has worked has as a power engineer in Idaho for nearly three decades. However, he has plans to retire during the month of July. And, as he leaves his position, known for improving power systems for the company he works for, he will be taking everything he learned with him. And, the major [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 23, 2012
There was a time when employers learned what they could about prospective employees with information garnered from interviews and background checks. A recent survey from CareerBuilder, however, showed that your future boss might have checked out your social media sites as well. According to the recent study, 37 percent of respondents, including hiring managers and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 29, 2012
FedEx recently agreed to a settlement of three million dollars to resolve charges of hiring discrimination from federal contractors, FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. and FedEx SmartPost, Inc. The conciliation agreement was the result of compliance reviews held by officers of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). The reviews [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 6, 2012
The Chairman for the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, has defended the central bank and the new price goal that it has established. He has also rejected any suggestions that were made about allowing higher inflation to take place as a means of creating available positions and boosting employment. In response to questioning he received [...]
Continue reading...Monday, February 6, 2012
The number of jobs created during the month of January has been quite pleasant as the economy in the United States has generated 243,000 positions and the unemployment rate has dropped down to 8.3 percent. This information was provided by government data that was released on Friday. These numbers were a lot better than expected, [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, December 1, 2011
During the application process, employers ask for copious bits of information: your name, your address, your phone number, even your social security number. But how willing are potential employees to provide their login information to a social media site such as Facebook? Earlier this year, there was a case of a man in Maryland who [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 24, 2011
Will you be working this Thanksgiving? Does your boss provide you with holiday pay for Thursday or both Thursday and the following day? According to a recent survey, the number of employers who constitute Thanksgiving as a paid holiday has steadily waned in the past few years. An annual survey from BNA found that 72 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The director of food and beverage in New York, Cory Harwell, chose to partner with other people and create a restaurant which was called Cana. This restaurant was created in 2008 and Harwell had high hopes for what it could have been. However, due to the recession, the restaurant did not last and actually had [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 17, 2011
Employee loyalty is a very important factor in a company’s survival. Companies offer an assortment of incentives for employees to shun the Help Wanted ads, such as cash bonuses or stock options. But one has to wonder what employee would be able to resist the promise of 50,000 dollars if he/she were to stay at [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A sales manager discussing religion at work was asked to stop and subsequently demoted. He resigned, but then sued the company, citing, among other allegations, a failure to accommodate his religious beliefs. Eric Weathers began working at FedEx in 1988 and was promoted to a sales manager position in Chicago in 2007. He described himself [...]
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