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Labor Superior Court Achieves More Robustness With Oracle: The Labor Superior Court of Brazil evaluates employment issues and labor relations action in accordance with Brazilian Labor Laws. The institution wanted to provide data integration between the Labor Superior Court and its 24 regional labor courts and standardize legacy database platforms in those courts. They wanted to develop an...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Labor Relations, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Human Resources, Software, Data Management, Hardware; Case studies
Suit filed against Department of Homeland Security over changes to H-1B visa: Ten individuals mostly programmers have filed suit in the U.S. District Court in New Jersey against the Department of Homeland Security over a new rule designed to ease foreign students' transition to an H-1B guest worker visa. The new regulations extend the on-the-job training period for foreign...; Tags: H-1B Visa, Student, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, Worker, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Toni Bowers; Blog posts 2008-06-03
Microsoft petitions to hire 1,600 foreign workers: Last week I blogged about Bill Gates' testimony before a congressional hearing on March 12 in which he advocated lifting the annual cap on H-1B visas in an attempt to be proactive in the face of an "IT skills shortage." TechRepublic members were very vocal in their...; Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Worker, H-1B, Strategy, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Management, Toni Bowers; Blog posts 2008-04-01
What is the real reason Bill Gates wants to lift the annual cap on H-1B visas?: Last week I wrote about the fact that many HR departments are claiming an IT skills shortage (IT skill shortage: Where's the hard evidence?). The claims didn't seem to mesh with the findings of a couple of recent university-sponsored studies. But now someone else has joined the...; Tags: Bill Gates, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Toni Bowers; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Bill Gates to discuss the need for H-1B visa increase: Bill Gates will be in Washington to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United States House Committee on Science and Technology on March 12. It is expected that he will deliver a speech on education reform. It is also expected that he will discuss immigration -- specifically...; Tags: H-1B Visa, Idea, Business, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Worker, H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Tricia Liebert; Blog posts 2008-03-12

Googlitics: Google opens their public policy advocacy process: Think 'Googlitics': Google meets politics. Googlers opened their internal discussions on public policy to the public in a fascinating exercise in glasnost. This came closely before tonight's WNYC broadcast of an On The Media public radio feature story with podcast on how that Web media giant...; Tags: Google Inc., H-1B, Advertising & Promotion, Podcasts, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Marketing, Internet, John Bartley K7AAY; Blog posts 2007-06-18
Labor Standards, Human Capital, and Economic Development: This paper will discuss the nature and importance of human capital, present an overview of human capital-labor standards linkages, and the rationale for making core international labor standards a part of the rules governing the global economy, and evaluate some of the criticisms of those rationales; the paper concludes with...; Tags: Labor Standards, Labor Relations, Human Capital, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2005-02-01
Are unions the answer for government IT workers?: A TechRepublic member suggested that unions were the only way to go to combat poor pay and bad management in government IT jobs. In response, Ramon Padilla discusses the pros and cons of joining a union in this article. I recently received feedback from a reader who thought my...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Ramon Padilla Jr., Labor relations, Benefits, unionization, bad management, salary, collective bargaining, worker, Government IT Newsletter, Job, Union, Environment, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Technical articles 2005-06-03
Reducing Distribution Costs: The Value of RedPrairie's Productivity Management Solution - Customer Survey: For many companies, distribution costs as a percentage of sales continue to rise. Labor costs generally represent the greatest single component of distribution costs, ranging from 40 percent to as much as 70 percent of the total. In this context, ARC conducted a user survey of RedPrairie's labor Productivity Management...; Tags: RedPrairie, Customer Survey, ARC Advisory Group, Distribution Cost, Labor Relations, Marketing Research, Sales Strategy, Human Resources, Marketing, Sales; White papers 2003-03-01

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DataHouse Case Study: State of Hawaii, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations: In Hawaii, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations DLIR handles tens of thousands of claims and status reports are made each year for disability compensation. With the intake process being manually based, submittals were time-consuming and exhaustive. Paper documents forced linear workflow review, statistics and data coding entry. Moreover,...; Tags: Hawaii, U.S. Department Of Labor, WANs, Outsourcing, Process Improvement, Databases, Networking, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; Case studies
True Labor Cost (zip): Knowing the true cost of labor is critical to managing your business. You must know what labor really costs you to best determine how to price your products and services. The largest determining factor in business profits is the management of labor costs. Most business owners know the cost of...; Tags: Cost, Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; Software downloads 2005-11-08
Intranets.com Case Study: Barokas Public Relations: Established in 1998, Barokas Public Relations BPR is a Seattle-based agency that focuses solely on providing outstanding public relations counsel and key editorial contacts to companies in the technology sector. Barokas Public Relations agency had an immediate need for a user-friendly online communication solution to facilitate daily collaboration and coordination...; Tags: Intranets.com Inc., Public Relations, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Corporate Communications; Case studies
Automatic Extraction of Concealed Relations From Email Logs: People interact with each other for various reasons. Based on the purpose of the relationship, these interactions exhibit certain characteristics. One such important characteristic is that of concealment. Concealed relations can often be a source of interest especially in the domain of counterterrorism where relations fostering malicious activities tend to...; Tags: Technique, Relation, University Of Minnesota, Social Networking, Productivity, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion; White papers 2006-05-25
Bluevizia PR Manager (exe): bluevizia PR Manager is your private public relations counselor. This easy-to-use software will help you create a successful communication policy. It derives solutions, tailored precisely to your needs and supports you along the process of planning, implementation and success control of your communication activities.Due to its interactive functionality, bluevizia PR...; Tags: Public Relations, Marketing, Corporate Communications; Software downloads 2006-09-19
Mexican Migrants and Other Latinos in the US Labor Market Since NAFTA: The North American Free Trade Agreement did not have a dampening effect on Mexican migration to the US as was expected. Deteriorating employment conditions in Mexico have coincided with a continuing demand for cheap Latino labor in the US over the past several years, thus bolstering the migratory process. This...; Tags: NAFTA, Mexico, Free Trade, Finance; White papers 2005-04-22
Public Relations Firm Boasts Server Performance Increase by 50%: Litzky Public Relations is a premiere boutique public relations agency based in historic Hoboken, New Jersey, which specializes in consumer product publicity. Litzky Public Relations needed a new, up-to-date network infrastructure that mirrored the qualities of the company, and they needed it fast. Litzky Public Relations knew that its IT...; Tags: Public Relations, Microsoft Corp., Litzky Public Relations, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware; Case studies 2008-03-06
Automated Scheduling Solution Reduces Retailer's Labor Costs and Increases Operational Efficiency: By using Radiant Systems Radiant 6e Workforce Management solution, Galyan's Trading Company is reducing the time that its store managers spend scheduling shifts, gaining better labor force utilization, and benefiting from "Dashboard" access to real-time labor cost metrics. The Radiant 6e solution, developed and deployed using Microsoft technology, is a...; Tags: Solution, Microsoft Corp., Retail, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Web Services, Sales Force Management, Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales; Case studies 2002-11-01
Data Domain Case Study: Labor Ready: Labor Ready is an international provider of temporary employees for manual labor, light industrial and skilled trades. Backups and restores were slow and often failed. The company needed a more cost-effective, reliable disk-based solution that would enable it to back up at least two weeks worth of data and easily...; Tags: Labor Ready, Business Structures, Pricing, Backups, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing; Case studies
Contactual Helps Labor Ready Respond Around the Clock, Around the World: The international staffing company Labor Ready had 94 different answering services—each with varying levels of customer service and cost—when related business problems prompted its search for a central call center solution. Chief among the company's key requirements for its new call center was a Web-based system that would: Be...; Tags: Contactual Inc., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies
Petersburg Life Reduces Returned Mail by More Than Half: Reducing costs is important for any organization. And one of the best ways to reduce costs is to attack the problem of returned mail. That's what the Petersburg Life Insurance Company did recently. The effort is yielding impressive savings - nearly $600,000 a year in lower postage, handling, materials and...; Tags: Pitney Bowes Inc., Real Estate, Business Operations; Case studies

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