5 Best HR Tools for Small Businesses You Aren't Using (But Should)
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View ArticleToll Holdings worker sacked for Islam and Taliban taunts gets his job back
A worker who allegedly taunted an Afghan colleague about Islam and the Taliban has been reinstated after being sacked last year. The Fair Work Commission ordered Toll Holdings Ltd to re-employ the dock...
View ArticleThe travel bug pandemic: Why young people are postponing their careers to...
When Eric Messinger says "travel," he’s not talking about a weekend trip to Las Vegas, skiing in the Rockies, or even relaxing at a beach in Hawaii. By "travel," he means exploring the Mayan ruins of...
View ArticleThe wearable tech that’s getting girls into coding
This article is part of a collaboration with iQ by Intel. Taking friendship bracelets into the digital age, Jewelbots teaches young girls to tinker and code their way into the exploding world of...
View ArticlePassion for fitness inspires new calling
Clients at First Wind Cycling & Fitness might be greeted by Lika, a dog with a heart condition that business owner Karen Hill found at the Humane Society. There might be a crate of adoptable...
View ArticleWhy you should ask for a raise like a kid asking to stay up late
Kids learn the art of negotiating when they're small, whether it's asking for an extra 15 minutes of reading...
View ArticleAsk Amy: Boyfriend threatens to dump girlfriend if she moves for her job...
Dear Amy: I am a 25-year-old young professional woman in a white-collar job with a boyfriend of 10 months, who works in a blue-collar job. He is the type who wants to save and buy a house 30 miles...
View ArticleMillennials at work: five stereotypes - and why they are (mostly) wrong
Generation Y has been labelled a bunch of lazy job-hoppers who expect everything on a plate. The truth is very different...
View ArticleShould You Ask For A Raise Or Look For A New Job?
In particular cities, young workers tend to ping-pong between a handful of major employers, doing a year or so at each. There’s little to differentiate the working conditions (we’re talking mostly tech...
View ArticlePower sector more for large-sized players with long-term investment plans:...
In a chat with ET Now, Deven Choksey, MD, KRChoksey Investment Managers, says falling market or falling prices definitely allows fund managers to add prized stocks in the portfolio. Edited excerpts ET...
View ArticleCity’s career expos aim to improve youth job prospects (City of Cape Town)
(Source: City of Cape Town) MEDIA RELEASE 3 MARCH 2016 With a national youth unemployment rate of 34,9%, the City's Social Development and Early Childhood Development Directorate is hosting a series of...
View ArticleHonda’s new supercar shows importance of Ohio to automaker
Honda is now building the only supercar currently manufactured in the United States at its Ohio plant, a move that has lead to more jobs and experts said shows the state’s importance to the automaker....
View ArticleDo You Have a Valid Plan Document? (ASPPA - American Society of Pension...
(Source: ASPPA - American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries) As actuaries we deal with data on a daily basis. Most of the time we tend to only think of data as demographic (participant...
View ArticleThe Story I Want You to Remember
As the gym echoed with 200+ fourth graders collecting their thoughts to begin the question/answer time following a blindness/guide dog presentation I had just concluded, I heard the principal call upon...
View ArticleManagement needs to continue efforts to maintain wage hike trend
The Yomiuri ShimbunTo realize a virtuous economic cycle led by domestic demand, it is important to further spread, and sustain, the trend for pay hikes. Automakers, electronics makers and other leading...
View ArticleIs Retirement Bad For Your Health? A New Study Has The Answer.
Worker bees, retirement really might be as glorious as you imagine. And we're not just talking about the ability to sleep late. A new study reveals that retirement can contribute to positive lifestyle...
View ArticleHomeshare opens new doors to independent living for older and younger people...
(Source: BIG - Big Lottery Fund) Area:UK-wide Programme:UK Homeshare Pilot Release date:18 3 2016 The projects are the latest to be funded as part of Homeshare, the UK's first national home-sharing...
View ArticleWho cares: the emotional labour of an undervalued, underpaid workforce
A BBC Radio 3 series examines the conflicts of having a caring career in an indifferent world – where services are easily dispensed with...
View ArticleThe future of work: 'Computers are good at the jobs we find hard, and bad at...
Australian entrepreneur Michael Priddis believes automation is about to dramatically transform our jobs – but the machines won’t have it all their way...
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