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...example of the new urge to help employees do good while they do well. This month Carlson is rolling out a special online database that employees can use to find volunteer openings in fields as diverse as teaching reading to adults, building homes for low-income residents or rehabilitating sick birds. The database will also notify individual employees of specific opportunities in their areas of interest. Corporate executives say the program could help reduce turnover 5% to 10% for the company, which employs 50,000 people worldwide. The initial cost of the project was $100,000, with a dedicated...
Employees who are out of the workplace for extended periods of time often are worried about job tenure, not to mention making ends meet. One practice that is proving to be a dramatic stress reducer for chronically ill employees is the "sick bank," where healthy employees can donate sick days to a colleague. Second-grade teacher Raquel Allen, 47, of Imperial Beach, Calif., is currently recovering from a double mastectomy. Even though her job with the school district entitles her to only 13 sick days a year, so far she has received 72 anonymously donated days that have allowed...
...mother of two. Worse by far, Quick was told her position was being dissolved, and she was given three months' notice of termination. The news was heartbreaking. "I loved my work," she says. "I had a great track record and was constantly promoted. I found out I was sick and lost my job." Though the firm denied she was fired because of her health, Quick sued on the ground of discrimination and settled out of court...
...will receive an up-front commission and half the take from all of her bills whenever she comes to the club, the whole staff showers the newcomer with charm. For a Japanese woman consigned to supporting roles all her life, the star treatment is pretty irresistible. (If she grows sick of her main host, she simply shifts her business to a new club...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH says she's sick of all the jokes about her. So we're not going to dwell on the fact that her lawyer is named Howard Stern, or that Smith, 33, hasn't been attending the latest phase in the Texas trial over her late nonagenarian husband's fortune because of a hand injury she suffered while exercising. Instead, we're just going to air her grievance that Playboy, which discovered her and launched her career, has exploited her troubles by putting her on the cover of its current issue, running old nude photos of her inside...