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The Post Office Expanding Use of Contingent Workers

Small Business Labs

Interesting interview with the head of the U.S. Postal Service in the Wall Street Journal.   The driver behind this is labor costs are 80% of the postal service's total costs. Needless to say, the Postal Service has to cut labor costs to survive.   Key quote from U.S. .

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When you suspect a co-worker has a substance abuse problem.

Laughing all the Way to Work

it requires a firm culture that discusses recovery openly and strongly support it -both in action and written policy. and hopefully, they have supportive procedures and policies in place to help them." Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. This is usually a lot of "talk" in companies.but little real support for it.