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...work cut out for her, with the company's wage, labor and health-care policies under fire. She caught flak last year for a leaked internal memo in which she suggested controversial ways to curb spending on benefits. But Wal-Mart liked her ideas and is rolling out lower-cost health-care initiatives for employees. Chambers will focus on other HR issues, taking part in a new advisory panel on ways to foster diversity and equal-employment ops, for example. "We've spent a lot of time listening to associates to make sure we are the best employer," Chambers said...
...extra costs of dining hour extensions to the extra meals that would be eaten.The only way to cover such costs without removing funding from another area of the College would be to increase the board cost for undergraduates.“College is already so expensive—nobody wants to pay a steep increase in the term bill over one year,” said Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, a former member of the HUDS Student Advisory Committee.Currently, 46 percent of the money from student meal plans goes to wages and benefit costs and 30 percent...
...company's process for reducing silicon to nanosize, light-sensitive crystal dots could revolutionize solar energy and lighting. The start-up, which just moved to Santa Clara from St. Paul, Minn., claims it will be the first to market with a silicon nanoparticle solvent--silicon "ink"--that would mean lower-cost printing of silicon nanoparticles on polymer sheets. That, in turn, would mean lower-cost solar energy because nanosize silicon is a more efficient converter of solar energy to electricity than previously used materials. It could also mean a nanoparticle light "bulb" that would outlive you. What's more, silicon...
...wages, pointing out that its workers take home 78% more in pay and benefits than their Japanese counterparts. The company was about $520 million in debt last April when it went into bankruptcy proceedings. Wheeling had been paying for an expensive modernization program and losing business to lower-cost foreign imports. "We now face the greatest challenge that men and women can face, the challenge to survive," said Chairman Dennis Carney. The Pittsburgh-based company, which recorded sales of more than $1 billion in 1984, maintains that slashing wages and benefits from $21.40 to $17.50 an hour is necessary...
...while 500,000 kids lose their afterschool programs. He cut benefits for veterans, many of whom lost arms and legs while fighting for their country, something Kerry vowed to reverse. Bush chose profits for drug companies as opposed to affordable prescription drugs for seniors, while Kerry promised to import lower-cost drugs and provide health care for all Americans. Kerry wanted to fight for the average American, the mother who’s struggling to find time with her kids while working two jobs to pay her rent while her husband’s in Iraq...