Circumstances may justify causing an employee’s delay. However, if tardiness persists, management must act to guarantee and promote timeliness across the team. What happens if workers are late? However, unexpected circumstances, blunders, or personal difficulties might lead a staff member to be late. These are usually isolated instances that don’t affect colleagues or management. For example, an…
Adoptive Mom Ecstatic as Son, 21, Lands His First Job After Doctors Said He Wouldn’t Live
The adoptive mother of a 21-year-old son, who was given a bleak prognosis after being shaken as a baby, is over the moon as he landed his first job. Her son, she says, has made himself and the whole family proud with his new feat. Heather and Luke Bell of Michigan are parents to eight…
Mike Rowe Scholarship Highlights the Lost Virtues of Hard Work and Sweat
Commentary LUSBY, Maryland—Tracy Wilson is sitting in the cutest little ranch house in this Calvert County town. It is her dream house—literally her dream house, she explains, as she has had the image of this very home in her mind, down to the color scheme of the exterior. It is 4 in the afternoon, and…
UniCredit Reaches Deal With Unions on Job Cuts in Italy
MILAN—Italian lender UniCredit has signed an agreement with unions for 1,200 voluntary job cuts to be partly offset by 725 new hires, the country’s biggest banking union said on Thursday. The accord follows a new three-year plan to the end of 2024 presented on Dec. 9 by Chief Executive Andrea Orcel, who had taken over…
Fed, Markets in Quandry After Friday’s Job Report
Friday’s jobs report for December widely missed its mark, printing at just 199,000 jobs when 400,000 were anticipated. The dismal report raised doubts about the likelihood the Fed would hold to what seemed like an assured interest rate increase just two days earlier, when the Federal Reserve released its minutes from its December meeting. The…
Dollar Retreats Modestly Before US Job Data
LONDON—The dollar retreated slightly on Friday but was still on course to gain over the week before the release of U.S. labor data that investors think could reinforce the case for early Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. The euro rose 0.13 percent to $1.1315 in morning trading in Europe but was down about 0.5 percent…
Woman Quits Job to Fulfil ‘God’s Plan’ and Cares for Dementia Patient She Met While Driving Uber
A mom-of-two who quit her full-time job to care for an elderly dementia patient she met while driving for Uber says it’s been a very life-changing and rewarding experience for her. Segi Tekletsion, 52, who goes by Jenni, emigrated from Ethiopia to Columbus, Ohio, 20 years ago. She used to be a senior banker for…
The Seasonal Labor Shortage Is a Harbinger of an Evolving Hourly Jobs Market
By Sumir Meghani U.S. seasonal job postings reached a record of almost 1 million as major retailers scramble to stock shelves and brace for the demands of an American public that is increasingly willing to conduct their holiday shopping in-store. Some of our nation’s largest retailers are looking for short-term fixes by offering bonuses and…
Volkswagen CEO Tells Staff There Are No Plans to Cut 30,000 Jobs
HAMBURG—Volkswagen has no plans to cut 30,000 jobs, CEO Herbert Diess told staff in an internal video message, hoping to fix his damaged relationship with the carmaker’s works council that deteriorated further in recent weeks. Diess said he was in talks with labor representatives on how the company’s Wolfsburg site, which the 63-year-old says lags…
Senator Cotton Delays Vote on Biden’s Pick for Powerful China Job at Commerce
WASHINGTON—Republican Senator Tom Cotton is holding up a vote to confirm Alan Estevez as the U.S. Commerce Department’s undersecretary for industry and security until he gets answers to difficult questions about technology exports to China. In a letter dated Oct. 14 and seen by Reuters, Cotton asks Estevez to commit to strengthening U.S. restrictions on…
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