Business Stories from August 14, 2016 (Change date)
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Twirling Twisters at the new Barrington Square McDonald'sAug 14, 2016 11:00 pm - On Thursday night, August 11th, at the Barrington Square McDonald's, families were treated to a special performance by the Hoffman Estates Park District Twirling Twister...
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Analysis: Are performance-monitoring wearables an affront to workers' rights?Aug 14, 2016 7:15 am - At U.K. supermarket chain Tesco, workers wear sensor-bearing armbands to track inventory while unloading goods. "Pickers" who put together orders at Amazon.com warehouse...
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San Francisco tech surge boosts costs in high-end building boomAug 14, 2016 7:14 am - For real estate developers such as Jeff Peterson, losing construction workers who can hang drywall, install plumbing and pour concrete in the San Francisco Bay Area has ...
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Labor Department pushing states to create paid family leave programsAug 14, 2016 7:14 am - In California, the first state to guarantee paid family leave for all workers since 2004, payroll deductions fund a state-run insurance pool that allows employees to tak...
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Executive pay disrupted at tech giantsAug 14, 2016 7:13 am - Amazon.com, Alphabet and Facebook have upended the establishments in retailing, advertising and media - so it may not come as a surprise that their pay plans are unusual...
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Career Coach: To get more women in leadership, we need to grow the pipelineAug 14, 2016 7:12 am - Advancing women and diversity in our companies is something most senior executives know to be important for a variety of reasons. It tends to lead to higher financial re...
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Stock valuations getting harder to explainAug 14, 2016 7:11 am - It's getting harder for bulls to justify the lofty valuations in U.S. stocks, and one of the last arguments left, that equities are actually cheap when compared against ...
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How far does a dollar go in each state?Aug 14, 2016 7:10 am - You might think you know the value of a buck. But a recent Tax Foundation analysis provides a stark illustration of just how much further a dollar goes in some parts of ...
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Can the fluctuating workweek method ease overtime pain?Aug 14, 2016 7:10 am - In a recent column, I asked readers to share views on the Labor Department's new overtime rule, which will make most workers earning less than $47,476 a year eligible fo...
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Asia shares edge higher as markets await US economic dataAug 14, 2016 7:00 am - TOKYO (AP) - Shares were mostly higher Monday in Asia, following a record-setting week on Wall Street, though investors remained cautious ahead of the release of U.S. ho...
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