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How Sherri Shepherd fought her way to the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Work Life

I was the person who wore the little pink-and-white uniform, brought food and water to patients and read to them. I was promoted to the catalog retailing department and did gift wrapping. A: I was a legal secretary in California. A: I was a legal secretary in California. I liked seeing the smile on people’s faces.

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Tupperware Files for Bankruptcy: Why Bankruptcy Doesn’t Mean the End of a Business

Success

Its direct sales business model made it a household name, and so it stuck to it for more than seven decades and only started selling products in retail settings in 2022. But despite the negative connotation of the term, filing for this legal process does not necessarily mean the end of the road for a business.

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Why Wellworking decided to become the latest B Corporation

Workplace Insight

To give a sense of that, in order to complete the certification, our directors legally embedded their commitment to purpose beyond profit in the company articles. The B Corp community in the UK is made up of more than 1,400 companies, including The Guardian, innocent, Patagonia, The Body Shop and organic food pioneers Abel & Cole.

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can an employer steal your work when you apply for a job, why can’t low-wage jobs retain workers, and more

Ask a Manager

I think we can all agree that this is unethical so I guess my question is — is this legal? If this woman wanted to sue Converse, would she have a legal leg to stand on? But other times unscrupulous employers really did take someone’s work and use it without paying them for it, which isn’t legal or okay.

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15 Amazing CSR Activities To Boost Employee Engagement

Vantage Circle

" Corporate Social Responsibility is not a legal mandate in every country. You can help improve your community by volunteering at homeless shelters or organizing food drives. One in ten people in the United States cannot access affordable, nutritious food. But, it is seen as a social responsibility for organizations.

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I own a game store with a terrible manager who I’m afraid to fire

Ask a Manager

A reader writes: I own a small (game store) retail business and the store manager I hired to run my business sucks. He keeps the place a mess and it’s honestly embarrassing and frustrating to walk into trash and leftover food everywhere all the time. The store sales have been terrible. He even sucks at hiring new employees.

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boss says we can’t share our lunches, employee fell for a scam, and more

Ask a Manager

Sometimes we bring food and share it among us. Last month, my boss told me and everyone else that we had lunch with that we can no longer share our food with each other. My boss said that it was favoritism because we were not inviting everyone else in the department to eat with us and share our food with them.

Food 41