Budget: Wooing the 'aam admi'.
NEW DELHI: Underlining that the key focus area of this budget is to help "people in society who the government needs to take care of", finance minister A K Walia in his Budget speech emphasised on "development with a human face". Walia lived up to his comment made last...

'High growth rate of 9% has bypassed 77% of population'.
NEW DELHI: National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector chairman Arjun Sengupta on Thursday said the commission will recommend labour reforms with safeguards to protect the interest of workers. He also said the "high growth rate of 9% had bypassed 77% of the population". Stating that...

"Sticking the boot in"--the role of goal setting in motivation intervation programmes.
Abstract Goals play an essential role in the purposeful behaviour of job seekers, but to date scholars have not been able to communicate this knowledge to the practitioners of motivational intervention programmes. This article will present a conceptual framework for thinking about the motivational construct with respect...

TN: are agency RNs employees or contractors?: eligibility for unemployment compensation issue.
CASE FACTS: HRP of Tennessee, Inc., d/b/a Hospital Resource Personnel (HRP), is a Tennessee corporation that operates as a nurse registry business, providing both licensed practical nurses and registered nurses to hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities on a temporary, as-needed basis in the Chattanooga area. HRP...

Post-FBT superannuation avenues.
Byline: Kavita Sriram When the Finance Minister elaborated on the fringe benefit tax, Mukund was least bothered. After all, it was supposed to be a tax that the employer had to shell out. Soon Mukund heard that his employer had decided to dissolve contributions to his superannuation...

So, got your key man in biz insured?
Byline: Madhur Batra Can you imagine ABCL without Amitabh Bachchan, or NDTV without Prannoy Roy or for that matter Mukta Arts without Subhash Ghai? What would be the fate of these companies if at all these key men were not around? To counter the risk...

Termination for poor work does not ipso facto disqualify one for benefits.
CASE ON POINT: Hoover v. Community Blood Center, 153 S.W.3d 9--MO (2005) ISSUE: Many cases (in which nurses are terminated and file applications for unemployment benefits) involve issues of eligibility for unemployment benefits. This Missouri case illustrates that certain criteria must be applied. One is the grounds...

Terra firma.
American industrial workers are no pushover when it comes to negotiating for rights. UAW, which comprises The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is one of the largest and most diverse unions in North America, with members in virtually every sector of the economy....

Misconduct: nurse gave unfamiliar med without looking it up, termination for cause upheld.
A nurse new to the home health field was terminated after she admitted during a case-file review that she had given Soma to a client, a medication with which she was completely unfamiliar, without consulting a reference source for necessary information. The state department of unemployment compensation...

The face-off.
Byline: Jyothi Prabhakar & Vishwas Gautam "I have given my life to the hospital, and the way I have been treated is shameful." The face-off between noted cardiologist Naresh Trehan and Fortis Healthcare's Shivinder Mohan Singh has been rocking Delhi. With a new development everyday,...