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*Hostess, the maker of iconic treats like Twinkies, is shuttering its plants and liquidating its 82-year-old business. A victim of changing consumer tastes, high commodity costs and strained labor relations, Hostess ultimately was brought to its knees by a national strike orchestrated by its second-largest union. Read/learn more at WSJ.com. Earlier, we reported … Hostess [...]
*As we all know, work is not plentiful these days and a lot of folks have walked the thin line of unemployment via lay-offs. Businesses are struggling to stay in business and really don’t want to fire anyone. But every business owner isn’t as sympathetic. What if your employer sent you an alert to your [...]
*The 21st century Titanic that occurred January 13, has left families broken by the death of their loved ones and some of them that have gone missing and the rest are distressed from simply surviving the ordeal. And now it comes to the awkward time where a price tag is put on all of the [...]
The U.S. Post Office has been hit hard by all of our e-mailing and other technology that allows us to circumvent the use of the service. What we now call “snail mail” because of seemingly never ending technology created to communicate with one another instantaneously via a smorgasbord of communication tools, is on emergency life support to remain [...]
*A friend told me her employer is making flu shots mandatory for its entire workforce of nearly two hundred people. Anyone who refuses the annual vaccine and later calls out sick during the fall or winter won’t receive sick pay. The debate over whether companies have a legal right to force employees into preventative healthcare [...]
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