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Proposed NCAA Reform: A Progressive Labor Movement or Settling for Crumbs?

It's an ongoing story with many layers. On one level, it's about college athletes fighting to form their own union (at least at one university) to secure better benefits and eliminate what they see as the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) long-standing exploitation of them as unpaid amateurs: in other words, a labor struggle as old as the NCAA and the history of organized labor in America itself. So reports Bloomberg.

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Does Your Firm Encourage Employees to Unplug During Vacation?

This is the time of year when business slows down at many companies, and employees take time off. So reports Insight Performance.

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Woman-on-Woman Sexual Harassment Suit Latest Yahoo Woe

The once high-flying Yahoo has seen its share of corporate troubles in the past year or two. So reports MSN.

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Obama Seeks to End Discrimination Against LGBT Employees

President Obama has signed an Executive Order banning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees by federal contractors. So reports TLNT.com.

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Malaysia Air, Business Travel and Duty of Care

While the lion's share of media coverage surrounding the recent downing of a Malaysian Airlines jet over eastern Ukraine that killed all 298 passengers on board has centered on geopolitics and the Russia/Ukraine conflict, the tragedy has raised some pressing business issues as well.

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Border Crisis: Is it About Jobs?

The news pages and blogosphere have been deluged metaphorically in recent weeks by an actual deluge of Central American children to the U.S. border. It’s a morass of issues and problems faced by these kids in their home countries, compounded by the fact that Congress has failed to enact any kind of immigration reform during the Obama presidency. So reports The Daily Beast.

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Missing: $6.6 Trillion from Our Nation’s Economy

The year 2000 seems a lifetime ago. It ushered in a brand-new millennium; the grave concern that New Year’s Eve was Y2K and whether the resetting of computers worldwide would collapse the global economy. So reports Al Jazeera America.

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World Cup Soccer: Office Distraction, Morale Booster or Both?

It seems that 2014 is the year that soccer – or futbol, as it's known in virtually anywhere outside the U.S. – may finally catch on as a national sport in this country. So reports ABC News.

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High Court Decision with Far-Reaching Implications for Employers

Just prior to adjourning for its summer recess, the nation's High Court handed down a decision that could impact hundreds of rulings made by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). So reports SHRM.

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Corporate Life Insurance: Could You Just Die, Please?

It sounds like an old Henny Youngman one-liner, but unbeknownst to thousands of employees in corporate America, their companies are taking out hefty life insurance policies on them. So reports the New York Times' DealBook.

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