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Metro companies eyeing ways to cut health costs
carrie.mason-draffen@newsday.comEmployee health benefit costs for metro area companies, including on Long Island, continue to rise and have nearly doubled since 2000, according to a new report by a Syosset benefits consulting company. As a result, employers are increasingly going on...Tags: Private Health Care, Illnesses, Health Insurance, National Government, Government Health Care
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Companies lose staff but can save assets
Layoffs. Downsizing. Restructuring. They are ugly words in business. When mentioned in conjunction with a particular company or industry, these words are sure to provoke fear and angst among employers and employees alike. As more companies struggle to...Tags: Unions, Layoffs and Downsizing, Advanced Training, Retirement, Minority Groups
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Survey: Health Benefit Costs Could Rise 5.7%
Courant Staff WriterThe cost of workplace health insurance might rise about 5.7 percent, on average, for 2009, and many U.S. workers can expect to pay a bigger portion of medical bills themselves, an annual survey shows. The preliminary survey results from benefits...Tags: Private Health Care, Health Treatments, Healthcare Policies, Government Health Care, Employees
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Health care co-pays, deductibles to rise
Associated PressGet ready for another boost in co-pays and deductibles. A survey being released today by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs next year by raising workers' deductibles, co-pays or out-of-...Tags: Medical Services, Private Health Care, Healthcare Policies, Health Treatments, Government Health Care
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35-hour workweek may not die easily
PARIS—It's being called the coup de grace for France's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour workweek. But a new law that lets companies negotiate more hours from employees is meeting resistance, even from the employers it was meant to benefit,...Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Labor Legislation
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France goes back to work
It's being called the coup de grace for France's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour work week — a policy that inspired both envy and ridicule in Europe and the U.S., and even some copycats. But the short work week proved difficult to implement...Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Labor Legislation
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Company News - September 3, 2008
AIR PRODUCTS TO SUPPLY FOR SCHOTT SOLAR Trexlertown gas maker Air Products has an agreement to supply SCHOTT Solar's new production facility in Albuquerque, M.N., with liquid nitrogen, oxygen, argon and hyrdogen. The new plant, which will manufature...Tags: Trexlertown, New York Stock Exchange, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Electronics
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Oil prices dive as Gustav passes
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe biggest repercussions from Hurricane Gustav's brush with the Gulf Coast oil complex played out in energy marketsTuesday instead of at refineries and oil rigs, as reports trickled in that damage to key facilities was mostly minor and oil prices plunged...Tags: Entergy Corporation, Disasters, Hurricanes, Meteorological Disasters, Petroleum Industry
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Au revoir, short week
Of The Associated PressIt's being called the coup de grace for France's decade-long experiment with a 35-hour workweek -- a policy that inspired envy and ridicule in Europe and the U.S., and even some copycats. But the short workweek proved difficult to implement and was...Tags: Vacations, Nicolas Sarkozy, Labor Legislation, Economic Policy, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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French Businesses Loath To End 35-Hour Work Week
Associated PressIt's being called the coup de grace for France's decadelong experiment with a 35-hour work week — a policy that inspired both envy and ridicule in Europe and the U.S., and even some copycats. But the short work week proved difficult to implement...Tags: Nicolas Sarkozy, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Employees, Labor Legislation, Unemployment
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GM claims $450k lost to improper employee discounts
Autoblog.comFiled under: Government/Legal, GMWhen the land was flowing with milk and honey, GM didn't get medieval on folks who took just a little more than their fair share. Now that GM's diet has been pared back to a few nuts and the occasional berry... well, every... -
Home economics
Special to The Baltimore SunWhen DeWitt Doss moved to Maryland in 2006 to accept his first teaching position with Baltimore City public schools, the Niagara Falls, N.Y., native wasn't looking to buy a home. His chief concern was educating young people. "I love helping the kids,"...Tags: Real Estate, Mortgages, Fires, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Condos and Houses
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