The former has taken a step towards introducing reforms, in regards to the Indonesian maids employed in Singapore. As per the action plan, those opting for some Indonesian help would be required to pay performance bonds of up to $6,000, as per the Indonesian Embassy. Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower, however, maintains that the country already has sufficing employee right mechanisms to ensure a justified pay.
As per the CEO’s latest message, third party contractors who have failed to establish confidence in company employees will cut-loose. As per the move’s proponent, it would demarcate those vendors who have been successfully meeting production standards, from the rest. Although falling stock-prize alerts for Tesla are commonplace, yet the company is under heavy fire to show results, following a disastrous conference call.
The company’s board, as per a German publication, is weighing options to confiscate the property of its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn. The troubled car maker’s internal inquiry could turn to Martin’s long loved possessions, to recover a fraction of its $20 Billion worth of fines, paid to Government Authorities. Last week, a formal investigation indicted Martin, along with five other company executives.
Liam Condon, who has been an integral part of Bayer’s Animal Health unit, will be the one to lead the Crop Science team. The announcement will materialize as soon as Bayer concludes its acquisition of Monsanto. Liam will have the assistance of the divisions’ new COO Brett Begemann along with other veterans such as Dr. Michael Stern & Robert Reiter to name a few.
The relationship of Drew Vollero, company CFO, and the Snapchat board has snapped. Drew, who was the first in the business’ line to foresee the company’s finances, as its CFO will be replaced by an experienced Amazon honcho, Tim Stone. Plummeting stock prices on the Wall Street and increasing competition from Facebook had cornered Snapchat to move the needle on the issue.
There’s enough literature to be found on Employee Engagement and its effectiveness, yet few adaptors. Perhaps this would help the cause. Women employees at Nike, who for long had been the subject of internally circulating sexual innuendos decided to shape their plight through a female-only survey. The result (once furnished to the CEO) – 6 high-profile male exits within the last one month.
The “Bicycle Commuter Act”, which allowed $20 worth of monthly qualified expenses has seen the sun set on itself for the last time. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has put a stop to the benefit until the year 2026. Yet, despite the issues legality, there are a few employer(s) who’ve committed to continue the reimbursements for their people.
The Supreme Court of California, with its decision, might have put a dent deep into the pockets of the state’s employers. On Monday, the court decreed gig workers be categorized as employees if they perform usual business operations and the employer has “control over them”. The ruling shall take a 20-30 percent bite into the profits of the companies, who then may pass on the costs to the consumers.
The National Institutes of Health have unveiled their plan to gather genetic information of a million people over the next decade. The scientific community, eager to utilize medical-advances for ethnic as well as sexual minorities, will strive to innovate precise medication as per the demographic. The due laurels of the program are to be showered on the Obama administration, which proposed the same in 2015.
The Super-market chain is introducing a benefits-program targeted at part-timers. The benefits-structure, which Hy-Vee claims are like no other, doesn’t fail to impress with coverages for the hospital, life and disability included. The entire initiative will be backed by the company’s Midwest Heritage Financial services arm along with the online health insurance distribution platform, Connecture.
Streets laden with CCTV, AI-powered real-time surveillance insights and mandatory face scans to buy toilet paper. To this array of nerve-wracking supervisory controls, scientists have added an emotional surveillance technology, just in case. Once functional, the tech would be capable of detecting employee behaviors even sending people off-work, if required.
It’s neither of the two, but a voluntary resignation for Whatsapp’s co-founder Jan Koum, who in his post on Facebook’s said he’s “taking time off to do things... outside of technology”. Although coming from the man himself, yet the words have proven insufficient to bury the rumors suggesting, there had been a clash over company’s future strategies.
Shocks keep coming thick-n-thin for Facebook. The latest is from a cyber-security firm founder Jackie Stokes, who alleges an engineer of the company of abusing his privileges & stalking the opposite sex. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Facebook’s who have been licking their wounds following Mark Zuckerburg’s public hearing. The matter having been reported to the social network, is being investigated.
The search engine’s latest capabilities will allow users to browse through most-pertinent job listings on the homepage. Search criteria would require the term Jobs, to be followed by the name of the industry. In addition, netizens could hop-on to an advertised position customizing the filters on the Jobs page. The changes come on the back of a series of updates that have strong-armed website owners to follow ethical content practices.
If employers were to grope for an answer to this, they could perhaps avoid appearing on the “Dirty Dozen” list. The council that curates the ranking, gauges workplace safety measures. This years’ list has everyone frowning, as the likes of Amazon & Tesla have made the cut. While the management could excuse itself upon sharing the pedestal with LOWE’s & IHOP, it’s probably time to effectively work towards employee well-being.
Tracy Ryans worked at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for 9 years. That was until March of this year when she was fired for allegedly failing to secure client data. However, her ex-employer did the same boo-boo when it dispatched a box full of customer information to Tracy’s address. Luckily, the latter isn’t rooting for wrongful termination and busy looking for a new start.
The court ordered the retailer to pay Damien, an employee, a sum of €65,000, as the latter recuperates from a fractured elbow having slipped in the loo. The case calls into light a care-free attitude towards facility-management, wherein Tesco installed average tiles in restrooms, increasing the likelihood of slippages. The accident, waiting to happen, should push Tesco-authorities into ensuring better workplace safeguards.
Singapore’s cabinet is being re-shuffled. The move which is designed to assert a younger POV (Point of View) will give chance to ministers of relatively young political representatives. One such face happens to be of Mrs. Josephine Teo, who’ll assume her duties as the country’s latest Minister of Manpower. Emptying the chair for her will be Mr. Lim Swee Say, having spent three years in the position.
Quality may never come cheap, but talent certainly does! Which is why companies like Amazon, Google & Microsoft go headhunting abroad. In the last two years, the likes of such tech giants have been pushing for greater H-1B applications to pass through. Though foreign minds contribute significantly to innovation in the Americas, perhaps one ought to think of a large number of Americans vying for similar positions.
A deaf Uber drivers’ FYI-appeal to his riders, has caught the eye of the world. The cabbie named Onur had pinned a note, informing cab-takers of his impaired hearing until one of his customers shared its image on twitter. And the rest is history. The heart-melting one-pager, requesting people to feel comfortable in the car is winning people over as the re-tweets continue to pour in.
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