CA upholds GMA Network labor ruling
THE COURT of Appeals (CA) has upheld a ruling in favor of GMA Network, Inc. and Scenarios, Inc. issued by the the National Labor...
America’s jobs defy slowdown forecasts
IN AN ECONOMY growing at a moderate pace at best, the US job market keeps on shining.
Payroll gains topped forecasts in five of the...
German unemployment falls ahead of polls
GERMAN unemployment extended its decline in August, underpinning a robust upswing in Europe’s largest economy less then four weeks before general elections.
The number of...
Rejecting employee requests without being hated
By Rey Elbo
What are the best management strategies of disapproving the workers’ requests without creating bitterness? It appears that there are many people, majority of whom...
Wage hikes in China bring some jobs and factories back to Japan
WHILE there is no end in sight to off-shoring by Japanese companies, signs are emerging that surging wages in China are encouraging at least some...
Macron gains support in bid to revamp EU’s cheap-labor rules
FRENCH PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron picked up support in his bid to overhaul European Union rules on cheap labor in the first leg of a...
In Lebanon, salt producers fear craft is drying up
AT 93, Elias al-Najjar has spent half a century harvesting salt by hand from ponds on Lebanon’s Mediterranean shore, but he and his colleagues...
Looks like hiring more women bosses really does pay dividends
YOU DIDN’T SEE this in the Google e-mail.
Supporters of gender diversity in the workplace — in particular boosting the number of women managers —...
Six strategies to manage uncooperative workers
By Rey Elbo
Many of our people managers appear not to be convincing when they talk to the workers despite a good number of our proactive two-way...
Former teller Duke named top woman in US bank industry
BETSY DUKE was working in a Virginia Beach dinner theater in the mid-1970s, struggling to make ends meet, when she applied for a job...
Australia adds more jobs than forecast
AUSTRALIA added more jobs than forecast in July, even as a burst of full-time hiring came to an end, setting up a mixed picture...
Why CEOs spurned Trump’s business councils, in their own words
PRESIDENT Donald Trump disbanded his two business advisory councils Wednesday as chief executive officers staged an exodus to protest his response to a white-supremacist...