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THIS YEAR, Gary Eberle, who is practically synonymous with Paso Robles, is turning 75 years old as his namesake winery hits 40. Winemaker Chris Eberle (who, believe it or not, is not related to Gary and Marcy) blended and bottled it in magnum, releasing just 300 to retail for $200 a pop. Eberle 1980 Cabernet Sauvignon, Paso Robles Marcy brought this mint-condition bottling up from the Eberles' personal cellar. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on the issue of time management for engineers andengineering managers. Implication of demands placed on workers;Causes of longer hours and heavier workloads for workers;Percentage of workers experiencing increase in workload; Employmentin the high-technology industry in the U.S. INSET: MOBILE COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS SAVE TIME, BUT....

Reports the decision of the Journal Register Co. to pay for the overtime wages of several photographers. Settlements on the lawsuit against Narragansett Times; Views of the U.S. Department of Labor on the failures of the company; Payment for civil penalties.

Focuses on the issue of structuring overtime pay polices for emergency medical services (EMS) personnel who work for the fire department and are classified as firefighters in the United States. Department of Labor regulations' failure to keep pace with the shift in EMS; Four distinct organizational models used by most counties, cities and government agencies in providing EMS; Enactment of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Focuses on the calculation of incentive wages with overtime premiums in the United States. Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; Minimum wages; Maximum hours; Examples of wage calculations. INSETS: Example Wage Calculations (A);Example Wage Calculations (B).

The article discusses performance management in regards to fire fighting operations in the U.S. and the expenditure of tax dollars as of February 2013, and it provides a case study of the performance of the Goodyear, Arizona Fire Department which delivers emergency medical and fire extinction services to an area containing close to 64,000 residents. Quarterly business reviews, overtime costs, and performance appraisals are also examined.

The article presents the author's insights about the lie concerning overtime. He says that people are made to believe that overtime is expensive, which forced management teams to overstock and overstaff. However, overtime is less expensive because it avoids the costs associated with overstaffing, which include benefits, average wage, and idle time.

Statistics are given for country music in the U.S. in 2020, including the number of nonholiday country songs included in the Streaming Songs chart, the no. 2 ranking reached by Luke Combs' song "Forever After All," and the number of streams for a country album.

Presents a legal point of view on overtime compensation for newspaper reporters. Newspaper exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA); Examination of the FLSA small newspaper clause by the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in the case Reich versus Gateway Press Inc.; FLSA's executive, administrative and professional employee exemption.

The article focuses on a valve stack had been taken apart several times, and only new O-rings were installed.

The article focuses on the challenge of employee classifications for industrial manufacturers in the U.S. It provides an overview of the court case on overtime pay wherein the Supreme Court has upheld that pharmaceutical representatives are exempted from receiving overtime pay despite working beyond 40 hours a week. It also suggests the need for companies, especially those who uses outside sales representatives, to regularly review the classifications of their employees.

NHS organisations across the south east of England are slashing pay protection and carer's leave, while some private sector nurses have been asked to take a 10 per cent pay cut. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maintaining safe staffing levels in exceptional circumstances requires goodwill between nurses and managers. Robert Munro reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the selections for Cabinet posts by the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump which mark the end of the policies of the Obama administration. It cites on several nominee including Scott Pruitt as head of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rick Perry as Department of Energy secretary and Andrew Puzder as Department of Labor secretary. The article also cites on the Associated Builders and Contractor's hope on the reverse of the overtime and blacklisting regulations.

The article reports on the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL's ) amendments to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), announced in mid-May 2016. The final rule updating the overtime regulations will significantly expand the pool of workers eligible for overtime pay. The final rule is scheduled to go into effect December 1, 2016 and applies to workers in local and state governments throughout the U.S.

The article discusses the economic importance of Rosemont, Illinois and adoptation of comprehensive workforce management suite to manage its workforce of full and part-time employees. It mentions that the village has standardized its variety of pay codes for work such as regular or overtime. It also mentions the use of the U.S. Afordable Care Act (ACA) to manage overtime.

An interview with employment attorney Dena Sokolow is presented. Topics discussed include the steps local governments can take to comply with the new U.S. Department of Labor overtime rules, what advice she can give for governments on how they need to respond and whether cities/counties will have to track employees' hours more closely and rely on worker time tracking systems.

Presents comments from nursing experts on whether medical staff members in Great Britain are right to refuse to work on Sundays or bank holidays without extra pay. Reasons why unsocial hours are a cause for concern at Agenda for Change pilot sites; Debate about the reasonableness of pay and conditions; Variations in shift patterns; Prevention of increases in staffing problems and costs.

Discusses the U.S. government policy on employment tax rules. Requirements for an employee to be exempted from overtime pay; Provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; Stipulations under Section 530 of U.S. tax laws.

The article focuses on the succession in agriculture business and presents questions that helps in planning for succession. Topics discussed include preparation for a role in the operation, mentoring of the next generation by offering guidance, and reaction on working overtime without compensation. It adds the evaluation of performance objectively.

The article focuses on Mike Harrison, partner at accountant Saffery Champness, who suggests that farmers who regularly have staff working overtime should review their employment contracts to examine whether they are affected by a ruling on holiday pay by Great Britain's Employment Appeal Tribunal.

The article focuses on a global absence research titled " The Total Financial Impact of Employee Absences" conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) as of September 2014.The research mentions the hidden costs of employee absence including overtime hours, replacement labor and buddy punching. The research also shares solutions for avoiding absence costs.

The author reflects on a digital issue of the journal and on the issue of 12 hour nursing shifts in Great Britain. He suggests that the issue of 12 hour shifts polarizes public opinion like no other issue. He argues that an investigation into the benefits and disadvantages of 12 hour shifts which has been proposed by England's chief nurse, Jane Cummings, would be welcome.

The article presents lists in the U.S. for the week of May 6, 2013 on topics including cities in which respondents work more than eight hours and cities in which respondents do not experience any overtime and a new survey result on stress remains high for information technology (IT) administrators.

The article reports that Bredin Prat, law company lost the dismissal claim, brought by a former employee on workplace harassment in Great Britain. It mentions that the firm had to pay compensation and unpaid wages worth 99,858 pounds. It mentions that the claim includes overtime payment of wages. It mentions that the employee was responsible for communications and marketing assistance.

Around half of nurses regularly work unpaid overtime, according to an RCN survey of 8,000 members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the labor dispute between building-trades employers and unions in New York City. It reveals that several unions for electricians, painters and crane operators have accepted the work-rule changes and limits on overtime, while new contracts with other unions remain unsettled. It highlights the implications of the labor dispute for the construction project at Ground Zero.

Almost all nurses are working extra hours to cover NHS staffing shortages, prompting concerns about patient safety, the RCN said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the Welsh Assembly Government's extension of the operating hours at divisional offices in Caernarfon, Llandrindod Wells and Carmarthen to enable farmers in Wales to meet the deadline for applications to the All Wales Element of the Glastir environmental management scheme in November 2010.

The article discusses the plan of Foxconn, an electronic components manufacturer based in Taiwan, to hire 400,000 more workers in 2010. Foxconn, the maker of the Apple iPad and iPhone, will increase its workforce to 1.3 million people, and move its factories to the provinces of Henan and Sichuan, to stop suicide attempts that resulted in 12 deaths. Workers are now limited to 80 hours of overtime every month and the wage base has been doubled for its Shenzhen workers.

Nurses working overtime will help make up for the shortfall in staff numbers resulting from fewer students being trained, a leading workforce expert predicts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on job exhaustion and fatigue in the engineering and construction industry. Job burnout emanates from stress due to one, or a combination of factors, such as extended work hours, bigger workloads, security of tenure, unfavorable career prospects, ambiguous roles, and budget constraints. Job burnout is often confused with a self-limiting stress arising from a single cause, and towards the end of a project, manifests as physical disorder symptoms.

The average full-time nurse works six and a half hours above his or her contracted 37.5 hour working week, according to preliminary findings of an RCN employment survey. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers news briefs related to government funding in Australia. Department of Treasurer Wayne Swan expressed that they are willing to undertake another fiscal stimulus to defend their firm commitment to spending. An opposition to the government's key budget plan to means test the private health insurance rebate has been expressed by the Liberal Party. The Australian Taxation Office states that they will have no plan to extend the 9% superannuation guarantee to overtime work.

The article reports on the results of a January 2009 poll that was conducted by "Newsweek." The poll was concerned with the number of hours that U.S. citizens work on a weekly basis and its results provided data on the number of people that work more than 60 hours per week, people that work between 35 and 44 hours per week and people who worked less than 35 hours per week.

The article reports that Roll-Royce Motor Cars Ltd.'s plant in Goodwood, England is working hard to meet the demand for luxury vehicles in Great Britain. It is stated that additional shifts and extended working hours have been introduced to help the company cope with the demand. Meanwhile, the company is making preparations for a model series to be launched in 2010, which wooud involve the recruitment of several hundred staff.

The article reports that more than half of all Australian professional more than one weekend a month, according to a survey conducted by Robert Half. The results showed that Australian weekend working had little to do with the conventional reasons such as more time, time zones, keeping up with office rivals of pleasing the boss.

The article reports on the number of companies in Australia that have increased overtime levels during the year that ended March 2007. According to a survey of 1,700 companies by recruitment firm Hays, almost 28 percent of Aussie companies recorded increased overtime levels during the period. Hays also reveals that of these employers, 37 percent increased weekly overtime by up to five hours.

The author offers suggestions for maintaining the work efficiency of maintenance crews. He suggests that it would be helpful to have a 26-hour day to make up for the time lost due to inefficiency. However, excessive overtime increases maintenance costs beyond budgeted targets. There are four categories that could be used to identify where maintenance is being spent, including preventive maintenance, breakdowns and repairs, predictive maintenance and project maintenance.

Nurses will get their first glimpse of the new NHS unsocial hours scheme later this month when unions are expected to hold an informal consultation on the proposals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the settlement of a patent lawsuit by Barnes & Noble in December 2005. The publisher is poised to settle a second lawsuit stemming from a class action on behalf of certain California employees who were improperly classified by the publisher and would have been entitled to overtime.

This article presents information on matters related to the RCN Congress 2005. The RCN congress 2005 will demand that governments in Great Britain should ensure the practice of using full-time staff on the bank stops and overtime payments are used appropriately in the Agenda for Change agreement. Whitley arrangements gave no entitlement to overtime pay. Nurses could take time off in lieu, but service demands have made this almost impossible. Nearly 60 per cent of respondents to the RCN's 2003 membership survey, "Stepping Stones," said they worked in excess of their contracted 375 hours.

Discusses a 2004 Australian survey indicating that almost half of Australian employees work overtime on a regular basis. Details of the survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics; Number of workers that work overtime according to age groups.

Reports on the reduction of spending on agency nurses by a National Health Service hospital in Great Britain to increase bank pay rates. Terms of payment for various grades and ranks of nurses; Encouragement of staff nurses to do extra shifts and work overtime; Effects of increased bank rates into savings; Training for medical personnel and assistants.

U.S. House leaders were forced to draw a bill before a scheduled June 5, 2003 vote that would have let employers offer compensatory time to certain workers in lieu of overtime pay. Republicans argue that the proposal gives workers flexibility to choose their compensation. But union officials claim workers would be forced to accept compensation time when they prefer overtime to augment paychecks.

Answers questions on information technology related career issues. Reason behind the practice of companies not to pay their employees for relocation; Factors that may cause ineligibility for overtime. INSET: GAME PLAN}.