NEW ORLEANS--It's a sad fact of the workplace--the better job you do, the more work you get, and, usually, the more hours you work. Laura Stack says productivity training can help you hold on to key employees.
With their industry losing billions of dollars in the past two years, airline
unions have been forced to accept steep cuts not just in pay, but also in their
once-cushy benefits and work rules.
A nationwide study of 700 employed people by OfficeTeam, an international staffing firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., revealed that 19 percent work through lunch every day, while 43 percent do so at least once a week.
A federal jury in Denver has awarded a former air traffic controller $2.25 million after finding that he was the victim of intentional religious discrimination by his employer, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
To Americans it seems like this could only happen in France, where the meddling influence of bureaucrats is only limited by their imagination. Effective February 1, French workers are now limited to a 35 hour workweek by government edict. And, not too surprising, the new law has just about everybody upset.
