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New Study Reveals Just How Brutal Meat and Poultry Work Is for Workers

Leave a Comment / workplace safety / By max cyril

The meat and poultry industry remains exceptionally dangerous, despite a decline in reported injuries and illnesses over the past 10 years, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. Further, says the report, the injury and illness rates reflected in Department of Labor numbers are significantly underreported. As a result, these figures do not fully …

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Woman sues Walmart after being told to ‘choose between her career and her kids,’ then fired

Leave a Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

Women filing discrimination lawsuits against Walmart are nothing new. Walmart firing people for questionable and controversial reasons is also nothing new. Now a woman is suing the low-wage retail giant, saying she was fired after complaining about discriminatory treatment. Specifically, Rebecca Wolfinger says her boss told her she had to “choose between her career and her kids.” Wolfinger’s suit focuses …

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Thanks to Labor Board Ruling, You Can Now Use Company Email to Organize a Union

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

This week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision and a rule that could make organizing a union significantly easier for American workers. First, yesterday the Board recognized that email is one of the primary ways that workers communicate, and that its case law and election rules needed to reflect this reality. The …

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11 Scrooge Approved Employee Motivation Ideas You Should Never Use

Leave a Comment / accountability, leadership, management, men's workplace issues, MinimumWage, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

What is the #1 way to increase motivation in the workplace? Well, we have our pet motivational theories and ideas, but we wanted to explore some of the horrible, terrible, Scrooge-approved ideas that are still floating around in the year 2012. But back to the bad ideas. We gathered some stories from around the internet …

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To Meet, or Not to Meet: Why All Meetings Should Be Optional

Leave a Comment / Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Meetings. They look like work. They feel like work. They smell like work. There’s nothing like getting the team around a conference table, batting around random thoughts to make sure everyone is on the same page. And, you never know when a good topic or idea will mightily rise up out of conference table dust! …

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10 Tips for Becoming a Workplace Politics Rebel

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized, workplace issues / By max cyril

The other day, I read an article on Forbes called “Tips For Dealing With Lazy Co-Workers.” It’s a fun topic, isn’t it, because we all love to feel like we are the only ones working hard. And it’s such a hardship to put up with lazy old Joe in the next cube over. Ugh! Time …

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Clerical Vs. Strategic

Leave a Comment / workplace issues / By max cyril

Recently I worked at a job with a wonderful woman. She had been a administrative assistant all of her career. So when I asked her to create a data base for our sales calls, she immediately turned it into a clerical function. She created an Excel spreadsheet that had a lot of columns that was …

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What Do You Believe About Work That Is Wrong?

Leave a Comment / CEO Performance, Corporate rules, regulation / By max cyril

After fifteen years of writing Workplace911 and its predecessor Working Wounded I’ve concluded that there are a lot of myths about work. I thought it would be fun to tackle some of the bigger ones in this week’s blog. Check out my list below and send me some of your favorites. It’s impossible to be …

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Worst Places to Work

Leave a Comment / Workplace Conditions / By max cyril

Having personally responded to over 50,000 emails from workers and bosses, as you can imagine, I’ve received screenfuls of emails about awful workplaces—or should that be screamfuls of emails? A few examples from my inbox—there was the guy who got a daily soaking trying to spray clean dumpsters with a pressure washer, the woman who had …

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Why Today’s Workplace Readers Should Think About Attending The ROI of Great Workplaces Conference

Leave a Comment / BestBosses, Entrepreneurs, layoffs, performance, SmallBusiness, WinningWorkplaces, workplace ethics / By max cyril

You found this blog, or return to it, because you’re interested in workplace rights and employers that follow the law to a tee, right? Well, you’ll find the latest, best information on both and meet some dynamic business contacts to boot at Winning Workplaces’ 2009 annual event that will be held in Chicago on October 1-2. We’re …

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