Sun Life Financial’s Employee Benefits Group has rolled out two group voluntary accident insurance plans, which enable employers to select the benefit schedules that meet the demographic and budgetary needs of their employees. The ...
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Mainly due to uneven recovery and ongoing systemic problems in global economies along with depreciating Japanese yen against the greenback, Taiwan's plastic and rubber machine industry experienced declining exports during the first half of ...
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Cequent Performance Products, the maker of ROLA auto racks and cargo boxes,?doubled the office space at its headquarters this summer and updated existing areas. While the address remains the same, the building has a new energy, the ...
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Global media and information firm Thomson Reuters has rolled out cloud software provider Workday's Human Capital Management (HCM) and Payroll solution to enable staff to speed up their workforce management decision making. Thomson Reuters ...
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Elders Limited has agreed terms with its existing financiers to renew and extend its syndicated finance facilities to 31 December 2014, as part of a comprehensive plan to secure the repositioning and sustainability of the company as a pure ...
Every desk needs a chair. In the days of scientific management, the chair that went with the clerk's desk had to keep the employee working at maximum productivity. And since clerks were discouraged from leaving their desks, the chair had to ...
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One the earliest known innovators to have created the modern office chair was naturalist Charles Darwin, who put wheels on the chair in his study so he could get to his specimens more quickly. With the advent of rail transport in the ...
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Guardian Life Insurance, a mutual life insurer and a provider of employee benefits, has appointed Caitlin Pincus as senior vice president of Strategy & Guardian Labs and Dean Del Vecchio as senior vice president and chief information ...
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The National Security Agency (NSA) has tapped into the networks of Google, Brazilian oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, and systems operated by France's foreign ministry, according to leaked US documents. The documents were aired by ...
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Tallman Truck Centre has won an Idealgold Award from Idealease. The program, launched 15 years ago, recognizes Idealease locations that achieve the highest levels of performance in 12 key areas, including: professional leadership, ...
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Philips has announced job cuts at its Hamilton factory following a decision to move part of the site's production abroad. Hamilton currently manufactures outdoor luminaires (conventional and LED), and SOX low pressure sodium lamps – ...
A business strategy cannot succeed unless the data supporting the strategy is fit for purpose. That's the view of Jon Stangroom, information governance manager at utility company British Gas. Further reading SAS brings a brighter ...
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Mutual of Omaha, a US-based insurance company, has unveiled a new Critical Illness insurance product that allows employers to extend their benefits coverage, while providing employees with added protection for critical illness. Providing ...
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Total intends to invest €160 million before 2016 to adapt its petrochemical platform in Carling, in the Lorraine region of eastern France, and to restore its competitiveness. Total plans indeed to develop new activities on the ...
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Is it something on an elevated platform that prevents people from falling? Is it that low-profile metal strip that runs along the freeway? Or maybe nothing significant comes to mind? Unfortunately, the latter is often the case, especially ...
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