Business strategies and HR practices addressing workplace equity, opportunity and inclusiveness.
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04-28-00
Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) today announced that it has been accepted into membership in the U.K.-based Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI). Gap Inc. is the third U.S. corporation and the thirty-seventh company overall to join the alliance, which also currently includes 16 non-governm...
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04-28-00
Weyerhaeuser will wrap up a three-year, major improvement effort at its Springfield Containerboard mill this May. Since 1998, the mill has invested significant capital into its operation to enhance product quality, improve operating efficiency, and provide added protection f...
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04-28-00
Weyerhaeuser’s corrugated packaging facility in Tampa has been designated a Voluntary Protection Program STAR site by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration. Facility employees will be presented with a commemorative flag at a ceremony on Friday, April 28 at the ...
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04-27-00
Every year for the past few years, 12-year-old Bethany Potter and her 10-year-old sister, Rebecca, have attended Microsoft Corp.'s annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day event with their father, David Potter, a Microsoft software design engineer. Today is Bethany's fourth app...
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04-25-00
Bell Atlantic will host an e-commerce training session for minority and women-owned businesses to teach them to use the Internet to market their products and services and to conduct business-to-business transactions.
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04-20-00
Some of the more impressive numbers at Bank of America have less to do with interest rates, CDs and IRAs, and more to do with the hundreds of individuals the company and Goodwill Industries are moving off welfare and into well-paying jobs in the banking industry.
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04-19-00
UNITE and specialty apparel retailer Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) announced today that they are supporting an effort by displaced garment workers in El Salvador to open that country's first independent and fully unionized apparel export factory. UNITE and Gap Inc. also said they pla...
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04-18-00
Cisco Systems, Inc., and Alameda County Office of Education today announced northern California's first high-tech training program for the county juvenile court facility. Together both organizations are preparing the most at-risk teenagers in Alameda County to be successful ...
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04-17-00
The AOL Foundation today announced it is developing a partnership with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) to bring digital opportunity to Indian Country and has selected the NCAI to receive the first ever AOL Digital Divide Bridge grant of $100,000. The grant w...
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04-14-00
United Airlines today announced it is launching is second annual targeted print advertising campaign in national and local-market gay publications. The gay and lesbian campaign is one of four targeted campaigns that United is launching this year to supplement its general-mar...