The Securities Arbitration Law Firm of Klayman & Toskes Files $800,000 Claim Against Merrill Lynch on Behalf of a Retired UPS Employee As It Continues To Investigate Claims on Behalf of Current and Former UPS Employees NEW YORK--(BUSINESS...Show More Summary
:Danielle Strle joined Tumblr in January 2011 as a designer. (She signs her emails cleverly, ":D") The Pratt graduate is a member of Tumblr's community team, where she focuses on keeping existing users happy and handling the exploding number people flocking to the site. Show More Summary
After several weeks of discussion, there appears to be a clearer target for many Department of Defense civilian employees regarding furlough as a consequence of the sequestration of funds that went into effect earlier in the year. These employees are now looking at 11 days of unpaid leave through the end of September. This is [...]Show More Summary
Companies of all shapes and sizes are now facing higher levels of uncertainty and considerably fewer resources to spend on even top-priority initiatives. The result has been a growing significance of a certain type of employee: dynamic,...Show More Summary
Fox News boss Roger Ailes wrote a pep-rally memo to his employees in the wake of the James Rosen investigation news. Washington Post media blogger Erik Wemple called it a "masterpiece." "For all those who wonder what it is about Ailes...Show More Summary
The Department of Homeland Security found a vulnerability in one of its vendor's software solutions that keeps information on background check investigations.
The Internal Revenue Service was closed today, as employees were furloughed due to sequestration's budget cuts. Conservatives found this to be an occasion for side-splitting humor; Sarah Palin, for example, tweeted, "The IRS is closed today, feel free to use your phones." Get it, because the IRS was tapping … um … well, never mind. Show More Summary
The
Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on the Kabul
compound of the U.N. affiliated International Organization for Migration, killing
one Afghan police officer, injuring three of the agency's staff members and an
employee of the International Labor Organization (IOM), the U.N. Show More Summary
Tornado victims in Moore, Okla., will have access to free fresh produce as they work on rebuilding their lives and community, thanks to the efforts of Meta Dunn, an employee at The FruitGuys in Chicago.
Today, plenty of employers need tech-savvy employees with the social know-how to navigate and solve complex, real-world workplace issues. The best way to recruit these top candidates? Gamification.
Understanding how to source, acquire, and then retain employees is a delicate practice. Not only do you have to find the best fit for your organization, but also you have to find the sorts of employees who won't jump ship.
On Wednesday, House hearings on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) political targeting of conservative groups uncovered a startling revelation about the interview process used to construct the Inspector General’s report: Obama donor-turned-IRS director of tax exempt organizations Holly Paz sat in on 36 of 41 interviews with IRS employees. Show More Summary
An employee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority was arrested this week on charges that he allegedly stole emergency medical equipment from multiple Metro locations and sold it online, the transit agency said today. [ more › ]
The Tenement Museum, an institution dedicated to educating visitors on the lives of New York's turn-of-the-century working class, allegedly axed one of its part-time employees after she injured her face. [ more › ]
A female FDNY employee is suing the city claiming that she was the victim of rampant gender discrimination from her coworkers. Staten Island resident Eileen Dechbery, 33, told PIX11 that the harassment started when someone changed the...Show More Summary
In the past, food and alcoholic beverage makers got in trouble for attempting to cover the impact of inflation (such as the 12% Y/Y increase in Fed employee salaries) by diluting the content, or simply serving less, of their products...Show More Summary
A majority of property owners in Winston-Salem would see a decrease in their city tax bill, new bus service would start on Sundays and most city employees could receive a merit-pay increase of 1.5 percent, under a proposed budget released Thursday that...
The next time your pizza seems a bit skimpy on the toppings, you might want to consider asking your delivery guy if he was feeling particularly hungry. A pizzeria employee in St. Petersburg, Russia responsible for ferrying a customer’s pie on its journey to consumption couldn’t resist the urge to snack before the pizza reached its final destination. Unfortunately for … [More]
Karl Rove has predicted Benghazi will be “corrosive” to President Barack Obama. Fox News political maven Roger Ailes in an email to Fox News employees compares the Obama administration’s actions against his company to McCarthyism and predicts they will fail. Is Barack Obama on the political ropes going down for the count — to become [...]
Employees will always resist change unless they believe the company's survival is literally at stake. Here's how to make it clear to them that it is. There is no list quite as sobering to an entrepreneur as a list of the most promising young companies of two decades ago--most of which, you can be quite sure, don’t exist any more. Show More Summary