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Reducing and Managing Workplace Absenteeism

Productivity loss due to absenteeism is a serious and growing challenge. In the United States, the annual cost to employers for time lost due to accidents is almost $100 billion, and other unscheduled worker absences costs even more. Absence management is a growing body of knowledge and experience that managers...

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Articles 2007-03-27

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Election officials report dismal turnout for primary

Throughout the day, polling places around the state were mostly silent, interrupted as much by ringing cell phones as voters. Sherrie Swensen, Salt Lake County clerk, said turnout rates were likely below 10 percent, and could be the lowest they have ever seen. Even after including absentee...

Articles 2008-06-25

Diving into this year's talent pool

Draft countdown See the top prospects at nba.usatoday.com Teams unfortunate enough to miss this year's playoffs can take some consolation in Thursday night's NBA draft. Those postseason absentees will hold a draft lottery ticket, good for one of the top picks. This year's draft...

Articles 2008-06-24

Obama trying to reach beyond party lines

On Father's Day, Barack Obama delivered a sermon in a Chicago church chiding black men for their failures as parents. "Any fool can have a child," he preached. "That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father." Those...

Articles 2008-06-23

The magic day when sick notes signalled the season's start

Fishing Lines Once upon a time, last week was the worst of the year for absenteeism, and 16 June was the worst day of all. It wasn't hard to find the reason. Every stream, lake, river and puddle was lined with fishermen, who had made amazing recoveries...

Articles 2008-06-22

Prepare for the second wave of Obamania

Barack Obama took another stride towards Pennsylvania Avenue this week, or so it seemed to this ignorant observer at a remove of several thousand miles, and for once he didn't even have to open his honeyed mouth. The Senator has been on cracking form lately, giving a wonderful Father's Day...

Articles 2008-06-20

St. Louis election officials scramble, waiting for court

Absentee ballots must be available by Tuesday, yet St. Louis election officials haven't sent theirs to the printer yet. They're stuck waiting for a court decision. The issue arises because Robin Wright-Jones, a St. Louis Democrat and House member, sued to knock fellow representative Connie Johnson off...

Articles 2008-06-18

Americans are Sleeping on the Clock, According to 1800mattress.com

NEW YORK, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Next time if you wonder if the person helping you is asleep, they may be. According to a 1800mattress.com survey of 5,000 callers nationally during the last half of May, 38-percent of employees have fallen asleep on the job. Sleep deprivation...

Articles 2008-06-17

Commentary: CPA Talks

Frustrated by employee absenteeism and the negative impact it has on your operations, customer support, and profit level? Are you looking for ways to improve the attendance and productivity of your workers? Here are a few suggestions. * Realize you can make a...

Articles 2008-06-17

IB3, of Mathew Knowles' Music World Entertainment, Debuts Video For "Your Fault"

IB3, a 21-year-old female rapper born andraised in the Third Ward, debuted her first video, "Your Fault," onlineresulting in immediate fan reaction. The raw feeling video has receivedover 7,000 views in under a week. The first 2,000 views were captured inthe first 24 hours following release. IB3,...

Articles 2008-06-11

New York Business Group on Health Presents Conference on How to Cope with Cancer in the Workplace

What does managing cancer mean for employers and employees when it becomes a chronic--not terminal--disease? NEW YORK -- New York Business Group on Health NYBGH will present "Workplace Responses to Employees with Cancer: What Employers Can Do," Wednesday, June 18th from 8:00 am - 12:45 p.m. at the...

Articles 2008-06-10

Gipsies robbing hol villas

BRITISH holiday homes are being targeted by Bulgarian gipsies who make a fortune from stripping them bare. Absentee British owners often don't discover the burglaries until months later when it's too late for police to investigate. In one case a family of...

Articles 2008-06-08

Fat chance: Obesity in the workplace

The more people weigh, the less they're worth at work. Workers who are heavier are paid an average of $1.25 less per hour, and overweight women make about 24 percent less than their thinner counterparts. But overweight employees also cost their companies more. The...

Articles 2008-06-06

'The fat guy. . .in the corner'

When Howard Cain was working a closely contested legislative race in 1993, he made sure to carry a wad of $10 bills in his pocket on Election Day. Why? At the time, you could challenge the legitimacy of an absentee ballot at the polling place with a $10 deposit. It's...

Articles 2008-06-06

The stand-in takes over on centre stage

Opera DON CARLOS Royal Opera House LONDON Cast changes due to illness are normally greeted by groans, but not when it was announced at the last minute that Ferruccio Furlanetto would stand in as Fiesco in the Royal Opera's Simon Boccanegra last month:...

Articles 2008-06-05

Vote matters

A Senate bill that would amend the Uniform and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 could go a long way toward ensuring votes cast in November by our military personnel serving abroad are counted before the polls close on Election Day. The bill, which lists Sen....

Articles 2008-06-03

Validation of syndromic surveillance for respiratory pathogen activity

Syndromic surveillance is increasingly used to signal unusual illness events. To validate data-source selection, we retrospectively investigated the extent to which 6 respiratory syndromes based on different medical registries reflected respiratory pathogen activity. These syndromes showed higher levels in winter, which corresponded with higher laboratory counts of Streptococcus pneumoniae, respiratory...

Articles 2008-06-01

Burley tastes first defeat as Scots fall to Sionko double

CZECH REPUBLIC 3 SCOTLAND 1 George Burley slumped to his first defeat as Scotland manager and admitted he needs his best players at his disposal. But the national team coach declared last night's friendly in Prague a worthwhile exercise. Burley had seven absentees ahead...

Articles 2008-05-31

A champion report from Europe's football front

In the Crowd By Laurent Mauvignier, trans Shaun Whiteside FABER & FABER Pounds 12.99 (309pp) Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 As Melvyn Bragg's South Bank Show on David Peace and The Damned Utd inadvertently revealed, the search for the Great Football Novel is doomed...

Articles 2008-05-23

CDC Doc to GlobalFit Summit: Wellness Quadruples Your Money

"Every dollar spent on the wellness ofyour employees will save you about $4 in the long run," Dr. L. CaseyChosewood of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC told agroup of corporate wellness executives at the GlobalFit Workplace WellnessSummit in Philadelphia last week. The CDC's Director of the Office...

Articles 2008-05-22