Update: Minority Hiring PollQuick curveball idea here for you all...An interesting idea I picked up from Tim Harford's book "Logic Of Life" may apply here.Basically, companies that exert taste-based discrimination AKA bigotry in their hiring practices are in the long run shooting themselves in the foot because they are denying...
Minority HiringUnfair hiring practices? I don't think so!Let's see -- 40% in one year? How far does that go in redressing the imbalances resulting from years of discrimination?As for qualifications - the interview and hiring process being what it is, who can fairly judge this? The process...
The city of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services will hold a subcontracting opportunity forum for its Balch Consolidation Conduit, Shafts and Pipelines project on July 17 at the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs Center. The request for proposals for the project required contractors to state their proposed...
Milwaukee will scare away projects if it makes developers hire minority companies or pay prevailing wages in return for city subsidies, according to building industry representatives. It's the same argument developers and real estate agents made in 2003 and 2004, when the Milwaukee Common Council considered and...
Interim managers are hired midseason to bring a quick turnaround to a disappointing year, but so far the results have been mixed for the three teams that made a change. Jim Riggleman of the Seattle Mariners moved to 7-4 with a walk-off win against new manager Cito Gaston...
FIRST BENCH COACH? JOHNNY Pesky said it could have been him. When Ted Williams was named manager of the Washington Senators before the 1969 season, one of the first calls he placed was to Pesky. "I was doing radio and TV for the Red Sox," the...
MOSCOW, Idaho AP -- Former Fresno State basketball coach Ray Lopes, who lost his job because of recruiting violations, has been hired as an assistant basketball coach at Idaho. Lopes spent the past two years as associate head coach of the minor league Idaho Stampede in Boise....
BETHESDA, Md., June 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Capital Strategies Ltd. announced today that Joseph Romic and Bradley Nii have joined the firm to lead the Chicago and West Coast Sponsor Finance practices, respectively. The Sponsor Finance Group is responsible for the firm's debt and minority equity investments...
IT was over when the fat lady sang. Big Blackpool lass Jodie Prenger proved she was the people's favourite as she romped to victory in the tense I'd Do Anything finale. She could be two Nancys! After 12...
A handful of Portland's largest builders and public agencies have formed a new nonprofit to provide independent reviews of minority participation on large construction projects throughout the region. The Metropolitan Contractor Improvement Partnership will use computer software to calculate the amount of work available to minority...
- Globalization and Increase of Women and Minorities in the Workplace Result in Significant Number of Korn/Ferry Searches Including Minority Candidates - LOS ANGELES, May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- More than two-thirds (68 percent) of executive recruiters say diversity hiring efforts should be spearheaded by top company leadership,...
Last month the Oregon Department of Transportation began construction on the largest highway project in Portland in nearly a decade: a single-lane expansion of the Interstate 5 bottleneck at Delta Park. Yet despite the fact that the project will cut through the heart of North Portland's black community, so far...
ROME AFP — Parma stunningly sacked coach Hector Cuper on Monday with just one match of the season remaining, the club's president Tommaso Ghirardi said. Cuper was only hired two months ago with Parma already struggling against relegation, just one place above the drop zone. Under...
By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Miles Wolff, commissioner of the minor league American Association, said he was impressed with the possibilities of a baseball team for Topeka after a tour of the city Wednesday. Wolff looked at potential sites for a...
By Mike Hall THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Miles Wolff, commissioner of American Association minor league baseball, said he was impressed with the possibilities of a team for Topeka after a tour of the city Wednesday. Wolff looked at potential sites for a baseball...
why agencies aren't rushing to brag about meeting diversity goals The good news for many of the agencies that came under the gaze of the New York City Commission on Human Rights is that they met their goals for minority hiring in 2007....
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SOON AFTER DAVID Dreyer joined AMN Healthcare in 2004, he faced a personnel crisis. One of his divisional controllers was isolating himself from the team, not communicating with direct reports effectively, and hampering the productivity of the finance department. "His reaction to really minor...
Home News IN BRIEF *A British doctor has been killed while on holiday in Australia when the jet ski he was riding collided with a moored boat. Sridhar Shekar, 31, from Leeds, was with his wife when their hired jet ski hit a boat's anchor chain at...
Kansas City attorneys in a successful $2.1 million employment discrimination lawsuit are seeking more than $225,000 in fees. Mark Jess, who represented Melissa Howard, filed a motion April 23 to collect attorney's fees from the city of Kansas City. Howard, a Clay County prosecutor, had alleged that...
The premise for "Baby Mama" will click with those of us who remember Mary Beth Whitehead. She was the surrogate mom who became a minor celebrity when she decided she wanted to keep her baby, prompting a legal battle that pitted her against the would-be parents. Attorneys argued contract...
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