Your best employees have lots of reasons to leave. Keep them happy, loyal, and productive with these proven strategies. Create a Culture of Retention Source: Harvard Knowledgebase Without an effective employee retention program, labor shortages...
DETROIT -- General Motors on Tuesday announced sweeping cost cuts and fundraising moves in an effort to quell rumors and speculation that bankruptcy is a serious threat for the automaker. GM's plans will total about $15 billion -- enough, it said, to help it survive the current market...
Greater Talent Pool Provides Unique Opportunity for Financial Institutions to Develop "All-Star" Teams During Sluggish Economy ATLANTA -- Collaborative, detail-oriented, conservative and fearless are the most desirable personality traits among peak performers in the financial services industry, according to a new white paper from TalentQuest, a human capital...
Even though at least 34 journalists at The Sun have applied for buyout packages, the paper will still need to lay off employees to achieve its goal of eliminating 60 newsroom jobs by August. According to Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild Co-chair Tanika White, 34 Guild members and a...
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Northern California Media Workers Guild filed unfair labor practice charges Tuesday to protest last Friday's retaliatory firings of organizers and other anti-union actions against the newly formed Bay Area News Group-East Bay unit of the Guild. The union's charges were filed with the Oakland...
ASCOT There was at least something to brighten the day for South Africa yesterday when Mike de Kock, that country's leading trainer, opened his scoring here with 11-1 shot Archipenko in the Summer Mile. The four-year-old defied a three-month layoff to beat 50-1 shot Barshiba by three-quarters...
Nine months into her first job, Mary Wisniewski returned from a business trip to Switzerland in April -- and was laid off. "It feels like I dreamed it up," she says. "I could understand being fired if I messed up, but I never would have thought I'd...
To Close El Progreso, Honduras Plant, Restructure Choloma, Honduras, and Mexican Locations to Adjust Capacity to Demand PITTSBURGH -- Alcoa (NYSE:AA) today announced that its Alcoa Electrical and Electronic Systems AEES business has initiated a restructuring of its Honduran and Mexican operations serving the North American auto market...
WASHINGTON -- The National Association of Home Builders NAHB today applauded the Senate for voting overwhelmingly to pass badly needed housing stimulus legislation and called on the House to move quickly to complete action on the bill to address the faltering housing market and economy. "The Senate action...
Redrow and Bovis Homes piled further misery on the housebuilding industry yesterday, cutting 850 jobs, reviewing their dividend policies and warning that the property market was in its worst state in living memory. Redrow said it had no choice but to cut 450 jobs, while Bovis is...
*RUGBY LEAGUE Mark Gleeson, the Warrington hooker who has been at the club for nine years, has joined Featherstone after being released from the remaining three months of his contract following a failure to agree an extension. Gleeson's departure comes at a time of...
Workers' compensation costs are soaring, andit may get worse. According to the 2008 RIMS Benchmarking Survey, the costper employee for employers with less than $1 billion in revenue rose 28.4%in 2007. Rising healthcare costs and a weak economy that inspires some workersfacing layoffs to fake injuries are among the forces...
MONTREUX, Switzerland AFP — Poet-singer Leonard Cohen on Tuesday night won over the Montreux Jazz Festival with his smooth deep voice and dry humour as he made his first appearance at the event for 23 years. Almost 74 years old, but looking dapper in a pin-striped suit, grey...
BOSTON, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- As the economy continues to decline, organizational leaders and managers are facing tough questions and difficult choices: How deeply can you cut costs without creating unintended negative consequences? What about layoffs? How do you get workers energized despite looming economic threats? How do you...
BERLIN AFP — German engineering giant Siemens unveiled on Tuesday one of its biggest restructuring plans ever, saying 16,750 jobs would be cut worldwide, almost one-third of which would be at home. Siemens, which employs 400,000 people around the globe, said in a statement that most of the...
WASHINGTON AFP — Leading US automaker General Motors is preparing to cut thousands more white-collar jobs and is thinking about selling more of its brands, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the newspaper said that both moves were part of a...
DALLAS, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Second-quarter jobs losses in the real estate finance sector fell by more than half from the prior quarter and the prior year, according to mortgage employment data tracked by http://www.mortgagedaily.com/. From April 1 to June 30, there were 5,889 mortgage-related layoffs tracked....
WESTPORT, Conn., July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Recession-related layoffs and hiring freezes, coupled with offshore outsourcing, have heightened competition for IT jobs, while exerting downward pressure on computer professionals' compensation. These factors are causing many IT professionals to consider changing careers, but they're understandably concerned about wasting their investment in...
It's not much of a challenge to get gloomy about the economy. We all know the bad news by now: high gasoline prices, high food prices, falling home prices, weak construction activity, layoffs, the sorry state of the stock market. But can two local economists pass a tougher test? Can...
PGA TOUR Dan Forsman: The soon-to-be-senior tied for 76th and won $9,250 at the Buick Open. Dean Wilson: Missed the cut with a 143 total in Michigan for two days. Mike Weir:- After not playing last week, will play in...
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