If your company still has a sick pay policy, you're behind the times. Statistically, more than half of all sick pay is abused. Much of the rest is used by employees who have poor lifestyle choices that keep them from coming to work. Reward healthy and committed employees with wellness...
LONDON AFP — Britain and Ireland have the highest average incomes in Europe but come bottom in terms of quality of life, while Spain and France are at the top of the index, according to a study published Wednesday. Britons have to pay sky high prices for fuel,...
LONDON AFP — Motor racing boss Max Mosley was beaten so hard on his buttocks by a prostitute during a sado-masochistic session that she drew blood, the editor of the newspaper he is suing told London's High Court Wednesday. Mosley took legal action after the News of the...
"What To Do When Your Child GetsSick," written by two registered nurses frustrated with the typical 11thgrade reading level of most patient education materials, recently reached a2 million copies sold mark since the book's initial publication in 2000. This milestone was made possible in part because of the ongoing search...
Recent developments in the rift between Topeka firefighters and Fire Chief Howard Giles prompted a particularly passionate, thoughtful and considerate debate on CJOnline. Following are comments by online readers to a Daily Dose story Thursday itemizing overtime pay the city of Topeka provided to firefighters who filled...
Recent developments in the rift between Topeka firefighters and Fire Chief Howard Giles prompted a particularly passionate, thoughtful and considerate debate on CJOnline. Following are comments by online readers to a Daily Dose story Thursday itemizing overtime pay the city of Topeka provided to firefighters who filled...
OTHER FACTS n The department on Friday saw 10 firefighters take vacation, personal leave or "Kelly days," which they receive off to ensure they don't work overtime hours in excess of thresholds established by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Twenty-eight firefighters took sick leave, with that figure...
When it comes to planning for those unexpected but inevitable financial speed bumps in life, Americans seem to think denial is a reasonable strategy. While there's no way to predict when an emergency will strike or how expensive it will be, an emergency cash fund is your best line of...
IN THE RED FASHION AND frugality just don't mix. It's frustrating, but true. Which is why I'm so sick of hearing the phrase "recession chic". Ditto "chic-o-nomics," "future-proof fashion" and all the other silly neologisms the fashion world has begun to spout as the cogs of our...
Long Island school officials have a message to the thousands of homeowners sick of paying all that money in property taxes: Don't blame us. Superintendents said the budget increases are necessary to maintain the current level of education. They also said future increases will be hard to...
A family fruit farm has stopped allowing people to pick their own strawberries because customers were eating too many of the fruits without paying. Hacker's Fruit Farm, near Cambridge, has offered locals the chance to pick their own strawberries for 40 years. But Mark...
I SAID IT before. I'll say it again. Until state lawmakers help hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians without adequate health care or insurance, they should forgo their own taxpayer-financed coverage. Or ban political contributions from health providers and insurers. Maybe that would spur some action. Apparently, little else will. As...
LEADING ARTICLE ARMED FORCES Four years ago, the then Chancellor, Gordon Brown, found the funds to pay for hundreds of veterans of the D-Day landings in Normandy to attend the 60th anniversary of that extraordinary feat of Allied arms. This year their numbers...
*RUGBY LEAGUE Trent Barrett has signed with Cronulla for the next two seasons, following confirmation from Wigan that they have released him from the remaining year of his contract. Barrett is returning to Australia and taking a pay-cut because his pregnant wife is home- sick. The Wigan...
Nearly seven months after work was completed to refurbish the veterans section of the Salt Lake City Cemetery, the section was rededicated Friday as a Memorial Day tribute to veterans. Former City Councilman Randy Horiuchi described his walks through the cemetery, noting that he always felt someone...
An Orem couple whose 9-year-old daughter suffers from a rare digestive disorder has filed a federal suit to get their health- care provider to pay for the nutritional formula they need to keep their daughter healthy. Dallyn and Tammy Zundel say their daughter, Ashley, suffers from a...
The Utah-based Children's Miracle Network -- which will air its annual telethon this weekend -- is now 25 years old. While it aims to bring miracles to sick children, it saw an additional wonder in that time: its own survival and growth. "We were well into our...
Robert Bauman, Milwaukee alderman, knows some people will grumble about his plan to charge a $20 car-registration fee to pay for city street projects. One resident already called and said he'd prefer the potholes, Bauman said. But the city needs to find money somewhere. ...
FIRST, I'd like to offer condolences to the families of every city police officer. It seems your commissioner has made it open season on every one of you. He expects you to be tough on crime, but if you're a little too tough, you're fired. Maybe if we...
The idea is to get more people to the doctor before they get really sick and wind up in the emergency room. But if we do that, we won't have enough doctors to go around unless we figure out how to create or import more of them. The way...
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