Day Before a Holiday
July 3, 2008
Hey folks . . . In the U.S., today is the day before a holiday — Independence Day. I bet your employees are looking forward to the long weekend. In fact, if they are in the northeast and gazing outside, they are probably seeing what a beautiful... Read more...
Employee Confidence Drops Again
July 3, 2008
Uh oh. The numbers from the June Spherion(R) Employee Confidence Index are in and it’s dropped 0.8 points to 46.1. That’s a record low for 2008. Only 12 percent of workers say they think there are more jobs available. Only seven percent said... Read more...
Unite Says Bullying Too High in Not For Profits
July 3, 2008
The United Kingdom’s largest union says that bullying in the workplace has reached an unacceptably high level in their nation. Unite says that recent research revealed that 43 percent of the union’s members in the not for profit sector experienced... Read more...
Wednesday Links: Creating Community, The Economy, Hiring A Manager
July 3, 2008
HR Marketer quotes a newspaper article that said there is no such thing as “the economy” anymore. Read Kevin Grossman’s take on it and tell us what you think . . . How do you hire a manager? Hiring Technical People breaks it down a little... Read more...
Cheers for a Safe Workplace: CNX Gas
July 3, 2008
Alright. Here goes. This, I think, is impressive. CNX Gas Corporation has gone for 14 consecutive years without a lost-time incident. In fact, they just celebrated the three-million man-hour mark without one . . . “This is a milestone for which... Read more...
Funeral Crisis Averted
July 2, 2008
K, it’s really hard to approach this one without using a bit of irony or some choice humor . . . bear with me. Good news for Chicago stiffs folks. Funerals will go on as planned. Alderwoods funeral employees voted 16-4 in favor of not abandoning... Read more...
Coffee in Crisis
July 2, 2008
Are you sitting down? Get this: 600 Starbucks locations are closing. Yes, even the food joint with stores on every corner of America, or so it feels, is being impacted by the economic crisis in the U.S. K, so maybe that was bound to happen. Anyway, that... Read more...
EPI Opposes Delaware Minimum Wage Increase
July 2, 2008
The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) is not in favor of Delaware’s SB 204, a bill that would increase the state’s minimum wage. EPI thinks the effort to help low-wage workers would backfire, and create more job loss for those same people. “Decades... Read more...
CEOs Focus on Building, Not Changing
July 2, 2008
Slow down, you move too fast . . . CEOs aren’t making swift moves right now, but rather focusing on building up businesses, according to the 2008 Management Action Programs Inc. (MAP) Quarterly CEO Survey by Vantage Research. And most CEOs think... Read more...
Ricoh deals with Compensation Management Growing Pains, chooses HCR Softwares CompensationXL Product
July 2, 2008
Jacksonville, Florida--(BUSINESS WIRE)June 30th, 2008HCR Software, a best-of-breed supplier of compensation management solutions, today announced that Ricoh Americas Corporation has selected HCR's CompensationXL Software to automate and upgradetheir... Read more...
