We entrepreneurs are business people, even if we don’t admit it. And we business folks often need to have a business meeting in a public place. Whether because we work at home and don’t have the space, or because we’re traveling and giving a number of presentations on the road, meeting a client outside an office setting can be liberating. But, ...

The evolution of the human resources function continues as companies learn to believe what they often say – “Our people are our most important asset.” As more products become commodities and as service industries become more prevalent and more competitive, it becomes clearer that employees represent the “points of contact” with the product and/or the customer and are therefore the keys ...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats on Thursday moved toward approving an extra three months of jobless benefits for all unemployed Americans, knowing they will not be able to overcome a veto if the legislation reaches the White House. While failing to get a two-thirds margin on a Wednesday vote, Democrats said they planned to send the legislation to the Senate anyway because ...

As an aspiring racing official, Mauricia Grant had grown used to working in a man’s world. When she finally made it into NASCAR, Grant was appalled at the way she says she was treated beginning from her first day on the job until her firing last October. Now she’s suing NASCAR for $225 million, alleging racial and sexual discrimination, sexual harassment ...

TUESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News)—The number of American adults who had inadequate health insurance to cover their medical expenses rose 60 percent from 2003 to 2007, from 16 million to more than 25 million people. Hardest hit were families with middle and higher incomes, those whose income was 200 percent above the federal poverty level or those with an annual income ...

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Employment screening company HireRight Inc. has agreed to a $195 million acquisition by US Investigations Services LLC, a provider of security screenings to the federal government, according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday. In the Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the companies said USIS will pay HireRight stockholders $15.60 per share in cash, which represents a ...

WASHINGTON - John McCain said Democratic rival Barack Obama is bad for business in a speech to small business owners. McCain said Tuesday that Obama's policies would mean higher taxes and higher overhead costs. The Republican presidential nominee-in-waiting also criticized Obama for pledging to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. McCain said small businesses make the economy run and that ...

WASHINGTON - President Bush has signed an executive order requiring contractors and others who do business with the federal government to make sure their employees can legally work in the U.S. Bush signed the order Friday and the White House announced it Monday. The federal government has had some embarrassing moments when illegal workers have been discovered to be working for ...

WASHINGTON — Individual government workers generally cannot make a constitutional case out of their workplace discrimination claims, the Supreme Court said Monday in a ruling that leaves public employees with fewer legal options than those in the private sector. The case before the court concerned arbitrary employment decisions that do not involve race, gender or other categories that are explicitly protected ...

After a lackluster first half of 2008, the Rhode Island job market is forecast to remain gloomy in the third quarter as Providence-area employers expect to hire at a very weak pace, according to a Manpower Employment Outlook Survey to be released today. About one-third of Providence-area employers interviewed expect to reduce their payrolls, according to Sean Lee, a Manpower spokesman. ...

WASHINGTON - The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 5.5 percent in May — the biggest monthly rise since 1986 — as nervous employers cut 49,000 jobs. The latest snapshot of business conditions showed a deeply troubled economy, with dwindling job opportunities in a time of continuing hardship in the housing, credit and financial sectors. "It was ugly," said Richard Yamarone, economist ...

An emergency physician will bring Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert and the city council to their knees today to teach them simple skills in an initiative aimed at saving lives. The city has vowed to teach, by the end of the year, all 13,000 employees how to perform CPR and use an automated external defibrillator. Paul Pepe, the emergency physician who heads ...

NEW YORK — A prominent women's rights lawyer has been sued for sexual harassment by a former female office manager at his Manhattan firm. Lisa Brockington says in the lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan that Jack Tuckner asked whether she had three-way sex and asked her other questions about her sex life. She also says Tuckner "demeaned all the women who ...

ROSELAND, N.J., June 4 - U.S. employers added 40,000 jobs from April to May, four times the number added in the previous month, a private payroll report said Wednesday. The ADP Employer Services said the service sector grew by 77,000 jobs, while goods-producing jobs declined by 37,000. It was the 18th consecutive month of declines in goods producing jobs and the ...

SEATTLE — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Longview Fibre will pay $175,000 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit. The federal agency filed the lawsuit on behalf of a man whose offer of a job as engineer aide was withdrawn because he takes a daily dosage of methadone for pain control. In addition to paying the man the money, Longview Fibre ...

Levi Wright's biggest job this summer has been finding a summer job. Wright, a 17-year-old senior from Metro Boulevard Alternative High School, has been applying for work for more than a month without success. Applications at bookstores, bike shops and mall retailers have yielded nothing. "I just need to put gas in my car," he said. "I want spending cash, too." ...

Q: My husband and I are closing our business after many years, and we will be looking for jobs after the closure. Are we entitled to unemployment benefits, having been self-employed? —M.P., Long Island, N.Y. Business owners typically cannot file for unemployment benefits when they close their companies. This is because unemployment benefits are a form of insurance paid for by ...

Over the next several years, virtually any global company's success will depend on its willingness to reorient its view of the world map. This attitudinal—and longitudinal—shift will have enormous ramifications for business leaders, employees, and customers alike. Here's one perspective on ways to prepare and put yourself in the best position to succeed in this new environment. For some five decades, ...

If the predicted recession becomes a reality, the HR function needs to be seen as an integral part of the business. Otherwise team members could be the first to go. Nicola Harrison reports A lot can happen in 15 years. Since the last recession, the HR function has evolved from an administrative payroll and personnel position, to one of vital strategic ...

As a result of changes at California's Employment Training Panel's (ETP) program, for-profit small businesses have increased flexibility in taking advantage of productivity-related training for all their employees. The new provisions include: - Reduced training hours, from 24 to 8 hours per participating employee. - Increased management participation. Small employers can train frontline employees to executive-level positions. Small employers, according to ...