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The Art of Writing a Resignation Letter – For Leaving on Good or Bad Terms

job search, Jobs, References, resignation / By max cyril

Resignation Letters – Good Examples from Allison & Taylor, The Reference Checking Company While crafting a resignation letter is simple enough when you’re leaving an employer on civil terms, what do you do if you’re parting on less than favorable circumstances? Writing a resignation note in anger or haste could become an action you will …

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The SEC Whistleblower Program

Leave a Comment / whistleblower / By max cyril

In 2011, a former executive at Monsanto, a large publicly traded company, raised concerns that the company was violating accounting rules and misstating its earnings. Despite being aware of these issues, Monsanto failed to remedy the accounting violations and continued to misstate earnings. Undeterred, the former executive reported his concerns to the U.S. Securities and …

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Workers Want a Green Economy, Not a Dirty Environment

Leave a Comment / Green jobs / By max cyril

To justify withdrawing from the Paris climate change accord, President Trump said during his press conference yesterday, “I was elected to represent the city of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” From terrible experience, Pittsburghers know about pollution. Before Pittsburgh’s renaissance, the streetlights Downtown frequently glowed at noon to illuminate sidewalks through the darkness of smoke and soot …

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The Great Escape, Lawsuit Edition

Leave a Comment / Class Action / By max cyril

This week, Sprint agreed to pay nearly $3 million in government fines after being caught by the Federal Trade Commission for cheating and deceiving people with low credit scores. As the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection explained, “Sprint failed to give many consumers required information about why they were placed in a more costly program, …

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Heaven, Hell And The U.S. Chamber: 13 Years Of Anti-Judicial Propaganda

Leave a Comment / Chamber of Commerce / By max cyril

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for Legal Reform just released the latest version of the propaganda piece it started publishing in 2002. Entitled 2015 Lawsuit Climate Survey: Ranking the States, the report summarizes the answers of a “nationally representative sample of 1,203 in-house general counsel, senior litigators or attorneys, and other senior executives who …

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Women Haven’t Gained A Larger Share Of Corporate Board Seats In Seven Years

Leave a Comment / Compensation, competition, Corporate rules, discrimination, Employment, Equal Opportunity, equal pay, executive pay, Income inequality, performance, pregnancy discrimination, sexual discrimination, workplace issues / By max cyril

In addition to grappling with a persistent pay gap, working women also have to deal with extreme difficulty ascending to powerful corporate positions, according to a report by the research organization Catalyst. As Bryce Covert explained at The Nation: Women held just over 14 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies this year and …

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Corporate Profits Hit Record High While Worker Wages Hit Record Low

Leave a Comment / accountability, unemployment, unemployment insurance, wages, wealth, workplace ethics, workplace issues / By max cyril

A constant conservative charge against President Obama is that he is inherently anti-business. However, businesses keep defying the storyline by making larger and larger profits, rebounding nicely out of the Great Recession. In the third quarter of this year, “corporate earnings were $1.75 trillion, up 18.6% from a year ago.” Corporations are currently making more …

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