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Staffing Firms Still Find H-1B Difficulties
For staffing firms, there has been difficulty bringing in workers on H-1B visas after the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service released the 'Neufeld Memo' in 2010. The memo listed 'third-party placement/job shop' as an example of a firm that does not qualify as an H-1B visa employer.
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Robert Crouch to Lead Adecco's North America Operations
The former CFO of Adecco acquisition MPS played a key role, turning it into a company with revenue of $2.2 billion in 2008. Prior to MPS, Crouch began his career at Arthur Andersen.
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Availability, Pricing of Coverage Main Concerns for Insurance Buyers: Survey
The issue is particularly challenging for buyers with large natural catastrophe and supply chain exposures, according to the survey of the 25 member firms of the Independents, an international coalition of privately owned insurance brokers and risk management services firms.
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Mercer Taps Julio Portalatin as President and CEO
Portalatin, 52, is an AIG senior vice president and president and CEO of AIG unit Chartis Growth Economies, with responsibility for operations in the Asia/Pacific, South Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Central Europe regions.
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Kraft to Cut 1,600 Jobs in U.S., Canada
The Northfield, Illinois-based company will reorganize its domestic sales team, consolidate its U.S. management centers and trim the corporate and business units.
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Arrest of Mercedes Executive in Alabama Renews Debate Over Immigration Laws
Alabama's immigration law is considered among the toughest in the nation, according to legal experts. Some parts of the code, such as requiring public schools to determine the citizenship status of students and their parents, have been blocked by federal courts.
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Great Expectations: Mastering Cultural Sensitivity in Business and HR
Experts say success in international business comes down to knowing the culture and language. But is that all there is to it? Is it enough to only master a few key phrases in a foreign language, as well as knowing when not to shake one’s hand and what topics to avoid in a business meeting?
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Newell Rubbermaid Aspires to Grow Leaders
Evolving from holding company to product innovator, the 108-year-old consumer products firm ramps up leadership for an exclusive group of senior managers.
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Caterpillar Sees Climb in Flex, Full-Time Workers
Full-time, traditional employment at Caterpillar rose 18.7 percent to 121,513 workers at the end of the third quarter.
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IBM Corp Optimas Award Winner for Global Outlook
For creating a career development and learning initiative that reaches employees in most of the 170 countries where the company operates, IBM is the 2010 winner of the Optimas Award for Global Outlook.
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Fees Increase for H-1B, L Visas
The increase applies to companies with 50 or more employees in the U.S. and that have more than 50 percent of their U.S. workforce on H-1B or L visas.
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Special Report on Employee Relocation Strategic Moves
Relocation is now viewed as part of long-term talent development, but the housing crash is forcing employers to offer greater assistance-including detailed cost analyses of moves-to get workers on board.
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Relo Merges With Talent Management
'It's gone from transactional to strategic,' says the director of consulting with Weichert Relocation Resources.
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Overseeing Overseas
In today's global economy, managers often supervise staffers who work thousands of miles away. But how?
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Cat's Nine Lives?
At first blush, the recent news that Caterpillar is cutting its workforce by more than 20,000 people seems like another sign that American companies are in grave trouble during this recession. But Cat's story is more complex, as I recently learned during a face-to-face interview with Sid Banwart,
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India R&D Hubs Work to Bridge Talent Gap
A paucity of high-skill engineering talent required to carry out innovations is driving R&D captives in India to hire expatriates and immigrant Indians, enter into tie-ups with universities and deploy a plethora of training and skill enhancement programs.
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Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses Rising
As health care costs continue to rise, employers are boosting deductibles and other out-of-pocket payments made by employees, a new survey finds.
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The Science, Art and Heart of People Management
Little by little, we are figuring out how best to run companies for sustainable success. That may sound like a Pollyanna-ish claim to make amid a recession full of bankruptcies and millions of job cuts. But signs of growing smarts about management are there, and it seems to me they add up to a
