Genetic testing moves Employees Health World

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By Tom Murphy

Your employer may one day help determine if genes are the reason your jeans are too narrow.

Large companies are planning to mix genetic testing with training in the fields of diet and exercise to improve employee losing weight and their health before developing serious diseases such as diabetes or heart disease. It is a step above the typical company wellness programs that use them many companies to do more about their risk factors and the workers to improve their health.

Nurses Union plans of short strikes in California and Illinois

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Sacramento, California (Reuters) -. A union that nurses in California and Illinois 6,400 members on Monday said they were planning to work on a series of strikes still running in one or two days in the middle of contract negotiations this week.

Strikes in Chicago, Los Angeles, Sacramento and other cities are planned in the middle of tense negotiations between labor California Nurses Association and its counterpart, National Nurses United.

Forget Compliance, young people want to contribute to financial stability

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If experience is a great teacher and the Great Recession of being awarded an educator of the year. After experiencing a global financial crisis and the after-effects, current or recent students prefer to opt for a regular salary to follow, but to work their dreams, according to a recent survey by staffing agency Adecco Staffing work.

The survey in 1001 targets and gene Z students and graduates (after 1995 born) found that the ability to find a job was the biggest concern only 32 percent of respondents, while 79 per cent I thought it would, within five months of the end to work. Forty-two per cent thought they would have a job in less than three months.

Ask Jack: Projects Car view from downtime and workweek

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It is time for the players vote AOL Jobs Jared ....

My boss lets me write my own performance evaluation. I thought it was a good thing until I have a new episode of Mad Men, the Peggy Olson went to his boss and asked for a proper evaluation of his performance looked. She believed that the company of their responsibility to avoid in order to check their power to prevent, to give him a real opportunity for advancement. It's Peggy have a point? Should I to the office of my boss and do the same?

It is a true story, I referred briefly me to a woman who hung up; Now it was a "performance evaluation" clumsy .... When asked to rate the performance of a complete has said ever more frequently, and honestly in the last ten years, I think is absurd. In the long list of duties of the office, performance evaluation falls directly in management accounting. You will pay more, and this is one of the not so fun tasks should be obliged to do in return.

So I say, if you asked to see you again, have a very positive review. Scaling from January to May? Events in all areas, baby. World class ass you hit this year; let anyone tell you otherwise. If you really feel that you plan a raise and / or promotion: 1) list services detailed in its self-assessment, 2) to discuss the possibility of a review of the Increase / Promotion 3) a meeting with your supervisor, the criticism ; and 4) be sure to get a signed copy of DT exam at the end of the process. Then when you have finished making your work, you can work again: hang the water cooler to discuss the latest Mad Men .

Truckers largest port complex nationwide strike over wages

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Truck drivers carry the nation's busiest in Southern California port complex goods went on strike on Monday in a dispute over payment status and employee, every month the coast costs west of labor disputes in major delays in the billions of dollars in trade.

The move comes after a vote of the Teamsters weekend. Drivers of four companies are striking, but it was not immediately clear how many of the 16,000 truck drivers would work in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The strike should not close all businesses port.

Elected Texas English professor National Teacher of the Year

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By Betsy Blaney

Lubbock, Texas (AP) - An English teacher in Texas, working with students in poverty and trauma, his immigration to the United States on Monday context was in 2015 secondary school with the name of the National Teacher of the Year in the year.

Shanna Yellow Peeples was for the honor of being the chosen, the Council of Chief State School Services. It is the first professor of Texas to win the award since 1957.

Peeples works in Palo Duro High, where about 85 percent of students live below the poverty line and where more children than any other high school in the district of 31,000 students registered refugee.

President Barack Obama will be recognized during a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday.

7 Lessons "Empire" in the succession of the family business

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By Andrea King Collier

If you caught the first win of the season Fox drama, Empire , you know, to pass on the torch of a family business messy.

In the show, the music mogul Lucious Lyon was diagnosed with ALS, he suddenly had to create a succession plan for your company several million dollars. Typically, evening soap, Lyon began to decide which of his three son rule against Empire Entertainment opposed to each other.

While Lyon saga was over-the-top, it was not completely erased. Said Alfred Edmond, Jr., vice president and editor in chief of Black Enterprise in chief ". The company will receive in the tradition -The boys over girls, trapped against less traditional and often artificial substitute would be best to lead the company".

If you own a family business, it might be wise to establish a strategic succession plan put in place before you need it. The example of Lucious Lyon do not follow. But follow these tips from experts seven.