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Faith, Civil Rights Groups to Stand With Workers on April 4
Faith communities across the nation will stand alongside working people, civil rights groups, students and immigrants on the days around April 4 to tell hard-working families under attack that “We Are One.”
In a telephone press conference this afternoon, prominent African American and evangelical faith leaders joined with civil rights and labor leaders to announce coordinated actions this weekend and on April 4 in support of working families.
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker told the reporters that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s power grab reignited a huge movement of people standing up for human dignity and human rights. Holt
AIG Asset Management – Employee Engagement During Reputational Hardships
Patrick Farnan, Head of Communications at AIG Asset Management was a speaker at the 5th Annual Internal Branding & Employee Engagement Conference, which was held in Miami, FL in February 2011.
Budget 2011: Equality Act’s third-party harassment regulations to be removed
As part of the 2011 Budget, the Government has announced that it will consult to remove the “unworkable” requirement under the Equality Act 2010 for employers to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment of their staff by third parties.
The Plan For Growth, launched alongside the Budget, outlined plans to scrap proposed regulatory changes, which the Government claimed would have cost businesses more than £350 million to implement.
Chancellor George Osborne announced in the Budget that dual discrimination rules, which were yet to be introduced under the Equality Act 2010, would not be brought in.
The dual discrimination provisions would have allowed individuals who believed that they had been treated less favourably because of two “protected characteristics” – such as age, disability, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief, sexual orientation or gender – to bring a combined claim.
Osborne also confirmed that there will be a three-year moratorium on new business regulation for those organisations with 10 workers or fewer and that the right to request time to train will not be extended to businesses with fewer than 250 employees, as announced by business minister Mark Prisk last week.
Additionally, the Government has said that it will “launch a major drive to revise burdensome EU regulations and directives”, including those on maternity and paternity rights.
It claimed that if EU plans to give 20 weeks’ maternity and two weeks’ paternity leave on full pay go ahead, it would cost UK business in excess of an extra £2 billion per year.
Other announcements included a £180 million investment in apprenticeships to create 50,000 additional places over the next four years. In or
Work problems from arthritis may come and go
Many people with arthritis have periodic difficulties on the job, but the problems might not make them less productive, a new study suggests.
And in many cases, simple changes in the workplace can be helpful.
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It’s known that people with arthritis often deal with work limitations. A U.S. government study found that one-third of working-age Americans with arthritis said their condition interfered with their jobs.
But the new study, which followed nearly 500 working people with arthritis, found that while work difficulties are common, they are not constant.
Over four and a half years, three-quarters of the study participants reported occasional, rather than continuous, difficulty with work.
Five Ways to Increase Your Productivity
You just have too much on your plate, and chances are, your employees do as well. You suspect that you could all be making better use of your time, completing more projects and achieving more goals. You want to be more productive and help your team be more productive, but you aren’t sure where to start.
If this sounds familiar, you are far from alone in your confusion. Even the most successful and highly accomplished people have difficulty pinpointing why they are so productive. The intuitive answer – that they are born predisposed to having the intelligence, creativity and willpower to get the job done – is really just one small piece of the puzzle. In fa
Here’s What Happens When Manufacturing Disappears
Steve Cappozola of the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM), reports on what happens when manufacturing jobs disappear. This is a cross post from the AAM website.
Last week, Manufacture This published a chart showing how lost manufacturing jobs correspond with lower state revenues and higher state budget deficits.
We thought we’d amplify that point by citing a sad and disturbing New York Times article on the exodus of Detroit’s population. With Michigan hemorrhaging manufacturing jobs, Detroit’s population has fallen by 25 percent over the past decade. The result? 237,500 residents have left town.
Photos of Detroit show boarded-up and vacant homes. New York Times reporter Katharine Seelye describes this “as dramatic testimony to the crumbling industrial base of the Midwest.”
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The Benefit of Urgency in a Talent Short Market
The job market has been picking up, and hiring managers are aggressively trying to increase human capital to reach their 2011 revenue goals. Having the right people in the right seats is key, and we see many companies take too much time when seeking to hire good talent. The most successful recruiters create a sense of urgency for their hiring managers, whose priority is acquiring top talent.
It is folly to assume there is an unlimited talent pool in this market. The current 8.9% unemployment rate (based on February 2011 data) is deceiving. First, the actual unemployment level is higher than the numbers suggest because of the number of people who have stopped looking for jobs.