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When the governor started going after those public employee unions he made those rookie mistakes that we learned back in the '70s. And it does nothing but get you in trouble.

When the entire policy for hiring people is put into (this) arena ... you're creating a golden employee who can't be disciplined or told what to do.

When the employee told her to wait because she had to call the manager, the woman took off.

When the employee discount plans are removed there will be a lull. Things tend to even out. September might be an interesting month to look at.

We've noticed that with the 24-7 electronic-technological boom over the last several years, things have really accelerated. The pace of change, the learning curve on the job -- we're seeing some of that stress spill over and have a negative effect on employee attitudes.

First and foremost, (there's a) selection process. (We) do background checks, drug testing (and) look at probation reports. (There's) zero tolerance for threats of workplace violence. (We) have employee support (and a) counseling program.

Both the public and private sectors are strewn with examples of transitional arrangements, separation agreements, employee consulting agreements, etc..

We see no indications in the marketplace that the radical Internet business transformation in practices like customer service, supply-chain management, employee training, empowerment, and e-commerce that is taking place around the world today is slowing -- in fact, we believe it is accelerating globally,

Trans Financial is an outstanding organization and has developed a high quality employee base.

While we deeply regret having to part with any of our employee family, the continuing impact of restrictive Medicare policies leaves us no choice.

While we aren't interested in taking the 'Big Brother' approach to monitoring an employee's every move, we do recognize the inherent value in detecting patterns involving the misappropriation of network and corporate resources. ObsurferPro provides us with the best of both worlds, as we are able to effectively monitor and manage employee Internet usage in an easy-to-use and extremely cost-effective fashion, while continuing to provide our staff with the tools they need to perform their duties at an optimal level every day.

While the report recommends employee contributions to health care and changes in pension contributions, along with other cost saving actions, it does not generate enough savings to warrant its acceptance. In addition, the report includes a provision which would increase benefits for existing retirees, an action that the courts have confirmed as unlawful.

You cannot design a healthcare consumerism program with a cookie-cutter approach. There are many variables an employer needs to consider when planning a healthcare program, including employee demographics, number of locations, company culture and the presence of chronic conditions in their workforce. Understanding these variables is critical to making healthcare consumerism work.

You can't do that without making employee unrest part of that picture. At some point the attitude thing has got to play into this.

to stimulate discussion and promote further efforts at the development of market instruments to value employee stock options.

To stabilize the nation's public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

There can be no doubt this has serious consequences with educational services and employee morale.

You have to treat them like a regular employee and pay them by the job or by the hour.

We (the company's Quality Committee) look for the model employee - someone who is exemplary every day.

We specialized it to run employee contests in the stores. We encouraged employees to go through the warehouse to find good items for sale on eBay.

We will sit down together at the appropriate time and begin discussing what each position is worth based on what each employee is actually doing in his or her job.

You don't have to turn over management decisions to your children, even if you feel it's right to give them the company's stock. You could sell the business, transform the business, do a joint venture, or sell it to an employee or outsider.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

We have done everything we can to make Tom's employment with AAET a happy and productive relationship. We have offered Tom special training along with other supportive measures. Tom is not the only gay employee we have had at our office.

Borders absolutely supports the customers' right to choose what to read and what to buy, and Free Inquiry has the right to publish the cartoons. We made the decision not to carry this particular issue of Free Inquiry because of the fact that we place a priority on customer and employee safety and security.

Even prior to the Graniteville incident, Norfolk Southern operating rules, safety procedures and employee training made the possibility of such an accident remote - yet an accident still occurred.

Everyone was uneasy because no one had experience with hybrids. This vehicle would kill several birds with one stone: Give us some experience while keeping miles off employee vehicles.

Every SSA employee, at some point, will go to another SSA employee for service. Everybody we serve is somebody's mother, somebody's father and somebody's child.

Every single employee that wears a badge here, that badge become a little soiled on that day.

Every county employee would agree that you earn sick time and it's your right to use it.

Every FEMA employee should have a FEMA photo ID. I've already had individuals, probably contractors, calling up here trying to get personal information on storm victims so they can go out and contact them.

As the employee discounts lose effect, you'll see more used-car shoppers come out.

At O.C. Tanner, the world's leading provider of employee recognition solutions, we recognize the impact application performance and quality has on business. Using Mercury Application Delivery products we are able to deliver applications more effectively, in less time and with fewer resources, freeing up the IT team to focus on other strategic initiatives.

At Nortel, our focus is providing multimedia communication capabilities that increase employee productivity and drive innovation, ... Our new IP multimedia solutions are designed to make it possible for employees to collaborate and work more effectively. The results are a more collaborative environment, increased worker productivity and the ability to be much more responsive to customer needs.

At this point, we have discovered nothing that would lead us to believe that any employee personnel data was compromised.

did not do anything wrong. He was a loyal Marsh employee for 20 years and I am confident he will be found not guilty after trial.

Corporal punishment is prohibited, but it's not a blanket policy that prohibits an employee from ever touching a student. There are situations when an employee may have to intervene physically in situations such as student fights.

Customers are unsure of what supplier pricing is, but they are assuming correctly that it is not as good as employee pricing.

CPE HR assists clients in developing and implementing sound drug-testing policies. CPE HR will develop the policy, provide employee rollout of the policy and also provide training to supervisors on what is considered 'reasonable cause' drug testing.

An inventor is simply a person who doesn't take his education too seriously. You see, from the time a person is six years old until he graduates form college he has to take three or four examinations a year. If he flunks once, he is out. But an inventor is almost always failing. He tries and fails maybe a thousand times. It he succeeds once then he's in. These two things are diametrically opposite. We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Are your office policies in sync with employee needs and desires? Knowing what keeps your employees happy will not only increase productivity and morale, but will also make employees less likely to quit.

Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways: premiums and productivity. Premiums are simple but until the Quality Dividend Calculator, nobody gave you a number showing you how Plan X was going to affect employee productivity. But employers need to know that number in order to determine which plan really represents the best value. The 'productivity cost' of a bad health plan can be very, very high.

Employers must have the ability to review everything on their computer systems to make sure that there's no illegal activity being conducted. If someone conducts criminal activity using an e-mail system, unknown to the company, the company's e-mail system can be subject to seizure. Or an employer may be sued in a breach of contract case. As part of that they're going to have to go through a lot of employee e-mail.

Employee training is going well. It's getting easier day by day.

Employee compensation is something that we have neglected for a large number of years.

Employee benefit plans are regulated by federal law, not by the states.

Employers should not focus on employee accountability alone. When used in combination with promoting quality care, health management, use of data and appropriate use of care, companies are able to achieve significantly lower cost trends.

Employers should not focus on employee accountability alone.

drives economic growth by providing businesses with access to new customers, new employee talent and new tax incentives to encourage public transit use.

Even as the impact of employee pricing wanes and pump prices climb, the industry presses ahead on the strength of new products and hybrid technology.

I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

Is it the employer who controls whether an employee gets to take comp time or overtime or the employee? ... When unions hear 'flexibility' they hear employers (not workers) get the flexibility to schedule the work.

Is it a child, is it an adult, is it an employee who only works temporarily in the building?

It would make it easier for an employee to go postal. They'd just have to go out to the parking lot.

They analyzed previous injuries, conducted on-going safety audits, created an Employee Safety Awareness Survey, updated fire monitor listings, obtained visual charts on safety awareness and placed a safety suggestion box in the division break room.

The woman did not say a word so the employee thought everything was fine.

I've worked with Kathy Rae for many years and she has done an outstanding job at InfoSpace. She was instrumental in turning around the company and making it a place with high growth opportunities and strengthened employee pride. We thank Kathy for her significant contributions and wish her well in her future endeavors.

It would seem that if they're using an employee compensated by taxpayers to answer questions about the campaign, that may be on the other side of that fine line of the law.

The shortage of IT workers has changed the nature of the position of HR (human resources) director, for one, because employee retention has become almost an overwhelming issue, ... Companies might have seen a 10-to-12 percent turnover rate a few years ago, if lucky -- the turnover rate is now more like 20 percent plus. People are stealing employees from one another left and right, and employee loyalty, frankly, runs only as deep as what the company can offer.

These efforts are positive steps to promoting healthier lifestyle choices for Americans. It is extremely appropriate that President Bush launched this initiative in a workplace setting. More and more employers have made the connection between better health and lower health care costs, and are taking positive steps to enhance employee wellness programs.

The smart employee understands the boss's temperament and style. You want to move to being a partner from being just another worker. You want to become part of a high-performance team, and you want your boss to depend on you to deliver consistently high effort and offer good ideas.

The small business types don't have an IT department. It's either the business owner or some other employee that's wearing multiple hats.

The subjects appeared to be interested in the workings of the plant. Some questions were asked of the employee about the operation of the plant.

The specific concern that we had was about the employee going postal. The workplace violence was the issue.

The tax bill is slightly larger than one would expect it to be because we have had employee benefit trusts and there was a decision in the House of Lords we've provided for. We're just being cautious.

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Sometimes in a high-visibility position, a district has to pay a little to retain the employee that they want to keep. Our football program is going in the right direction, and we don't want that to shift into reverse.

Technology professionals with the most desirable skill sets are beginning to receive multiple offers. Individuals who may have been dissatisfied in their positions in recent years also are starting to pursue other opportunities, making employee retention a growing concern for companies.

Sometimes the employer doesn't tell the employee what to expect, ... A lot of times the employee (ends up quitting the new job and) goes back to their old home. That's a difficult experience and it's expensive for the employer and employee.

Seen in this light, ... the employee discount program was an enormously successful marketing coup.

Selection of the staff travel system was crucial since it would be one of the few applications to be used by every single employee of the airline around the globe. We are impressed with the high level of professionalism, knowledge and adaptability of IBS.

Poverty and hunger are rapidly becoming a workplace issue... if for no other reason than the fact than an employee who is worried about where his or her next meal will come from is not going to be very productive.

Public employee union members should not be forced to contribute to causes, candidates and controversial issues that they don't believe in, ... That isn't a contribution, it's a tax.

Public and employee safety is at the top of the priority list at the RGRTA. Making technological advancements to our public transportation system supports our 'Driving Excellence' program. Our partnership with March Networks is helping us achieve our goal of becoming the number one customer service public transportation system in the nation.

Put yourself in the arbitrator's position. Odds that the plaintiff employee is ever going to need your services again are almost zero. But if you're a large, multistate or multinational corporation, you figure, 'If I give a good ruling on this case, they're going to keep shooting me these cases and I can make a lot of money.' That's a built-in bias in the arbitration procedure.

Ralph is there for every employee who needs him.

Our third quarter used car sales growth reflected increased traffic compared with last year's third quarter, as well as continuing strong execution. We were able to sustain positive momentum even as the cross-shopping benefit from this summer's new car employee pricing programs waned. Subsequently, new car sales and traffic levels dropped significantly, reflecting the limited model year close-out vehicle availability that resulted from the success of the employee pricing programs.

Our sense is that the rejection was more a statement of employee sentiment in the airline industry rather than a statement regarding overall labor relations between UPS and the Teamsters. However, we believe UPS would want to put this contract to bed before focusing on the national Teamster contract.

Our employee who spoke with the customer unfortunately misspoke and gave the customer erroneous information about our company policy on billing. We have identified and corrected the error, and we identified and are properly adjusting the affected customers' accounts.

Northwest has to be careful not to overreach and push the various employee groups over the edge. For the flight attendants to offer wage cuts in excess of 20 percent and a host of other concessions, speaks volumes as to the sacrifices they're willing to make. Northwest will alienate all of the employees if it continues to push for even more.

A full audit of software located on our company computers discovered that an employee had installed software for which we had not paid licensing fees. Since then, we have implemented a robust software management program to more closely monitor installations of software programs on all company computers.

Something happened that changed the priority assigned to the job search. On the morning of December 11, 1997, Judge Susan Webber Wright ordered President Clinton to provide information regarding any state or federal employee with whom he had, proposed, or sought sexual relations. To keep Ms. Lewinsky satisfied was now of critical importance.

One credit union set up in the back of the manager's SUV. The husband of an employee had a gun and provided security.

Now is the time for some of those people who are looking for an opportunity to step forward. Also, for some of the businesses out there, if you have an employee you think could benefit from some leadership and management skills, consider paying their membership dues. See where it takes them.

November rolled around and our checks came up smaller then normal. DC Studios was finally deducting Federal Taxes, another step we looked forward to during this acquisition. This happened twice in November, yet no new contracts had been drawn which justified any Dallas member as an actual employee of DC Studios. We questioned this matter, and in December, our first check came in and it was back to the old figures, where no taxes were being taken out. So where did our Federal Tax money go, not to mention the withholdings for Health Insurance, which we found out was canceled due to non-payment?

Dell is taking a more aggressive look at its expense structure, and I'm hearing that they are doing their employee reviews earlier than expected and that they are being tougher than they've been in the past on weeding out those who are underperforming.

Companies have tried to avoid negotiations, but it's in your interest to start them as the employee -- even if it'll make the large company cringe,

A piece of equipment from the crane either fell, came loose, came crashing down, knocking this employee and another co-worker off of the safety platform that they were on.

Any kind of liability that an employee can create through communication, they can do through e-mail.

Any employee will be glad to show that ID to anyone who asks for it.

Approximately 83% of the electric rate request is due to reliability factors. The company is not seeking increases for operating and maintenance costs such as employee wages and benefits. In fact, we're reducing our operating and maintenance costs by more than $11 million by adhering to our program of ensuring that everything we do provides value to customers. The program is working -- higher rates notwithstanding.

Any talk of cuts to federal employee or federal retiree benefits is a complete non-starter.

As a member of the school board I played an integral role in keeping the district's approximately $8 million budget successfully in the black while building several additions and making many improvements. I also played a key role in negotiating many successful union contracts for the district. This experience will better able me to keep the sheriff's department spending in check, and to work well with the department's employee union.

As a federal employee all my life, I am very, very proud of this badge,

As a Naval officer, I was trained, essentially bred, to be a military aviator. I was a Naval officer on assignment, not an employee of NASA.

Bad service is something everyone can relate to -- we've all had an experience with an obnoxious employee or had to call to correct an error on a bill. What we often can't relate to is the great way a company recovers from a service failure and wins our future business.

Zayed, who was simply an employee of the sheik, did virtually nothing.

Your typical business just measures the metrics that have to do with the profitability of the business one way or another. But you can have metrics that measure employee happiness and the morale. You can also do direct customer surveys; you can track it over time. You can do supplier satisfaction scores as well.

You simply can't just fire an otherwise good employee who has a spotless record. Our statutes are clearly, squarely against that.