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Current and former Canadian bank employees have inundated CBC News with emails, saying outsourcing practices are common among the big banks after a CBC exclusive revealed RBC is using foreign workers to replace dozens of Canadians. More...

While 69 percent of organizations have employees using personal devices to connect to their corporate network, more than one-fifth, or 21 percent, currently have no policy in place to govern the use of personal mobile devices on their network. These new figures, released recently from...

A survey of more than 3,400 employees in the United States, Great Britain and Australia finds corporate loyalty be damned, your company's data may be on its way out the door when certain employees resign or get laid off. More...

<div>Thirty percent of employers will definitely or probably stop offering health benefits to their employees once the main provisions of President Obama's federal health care law go into effect in 2014, a new survey finds. The research published in the McKinsey Quarterly found that the...

<div>More than two dozen Environment Canada employees have received layoff notices, spurring fears among federal civil servants that thousands of job losses loom as the government struggles to balance its budget. The notices were handed out this week to at least 28 scientists at the department...

To end a high-stakes stalemate over union rights that has captured the nation's attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up to their new governor. Gov. Scott Walker made clear Monday he won't back off his proposal to effectively eliminate collective...

-- Lots of state officials are pressing public employees to shoulder more of their health care and pension costs. But in some places -- notably Wisconsin and Ohio -- officials are looking to go one step farther. Governors and lawmakers there are trying to limit or end public workers' collective...

ATLANTA – A tuberculosis outbreak among workers at a Tennessee elephant sanctuary in 2009 is being blamed on one of the pachyderms, even though some of the employees didn't have close contact with the animal. Elephants can carry TB, and there have been reports of them spreading it to people who...

Two people who once worked for billionaire trader Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital Advisers were charged with insider trading, drawing the $12 billion hedge fund firm further into a high-profile U.S. investigation. Prosecutors on Tuesday accused the two former employees, among four new defendants...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/01/25/bts.sotu.obama.tax.cnn -- President Barack Obama and members of his Cabinet will tour several businesses Wednesday that the president says are investing in ways he mentioned in his State of the Union speech. Obama will head to Wisconsin, where...

An explosion has rocked the Horizon oilsands site near the Fort McKay First Nation in northern Alberta, injuring four employees. The explosion occurred around 3:30 p.m. MT Thursday. The owner of the site, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., said at 7 p.m. MT that the fire was contained to the...

MIAMI -- Hundreds of South Florida Burger King employees learned Monday that they have lost their jobs. Burger King Corp. said it has reduced its staff in North America and Latin America by 413 positions, 261 of which were in South Florida. That is 8.8 percent of the company's South Florida...

NEW YORK -- The court-appointed trustee trying to recover money stolen by Bernard Madoff has sued the Ponzi con's relatives and former employees in a bid for $69 million. Trustee Irving Picard said he brought 40 lawsuits on Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan. He filed 22 suits against...

A gunman who opened fire on his co-workers at a Walmart in Reno, Nevada, was arrested without incident Friday after a six-hour standoff with authorities, Reno police said. Three employees were injured and two remained hospitalized Friday night in serious to stable condition, Lt. Mohammad...

Thirteen plant workers at the Chrysler Jefferson North Assembly plant in Detroit have lost their jobs after a video showing some of them drinking during their lunch break was aired on the Detroit Fox "It has been determined that 13 employees engaged in behavior that violated the company's...

More furloughs for Calif. state workers SACRAMENTO, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ordering unpaid furloughs for most state workers until a state budget is adopted, a union official said. The order, which had not yet been made public, would apply to about 200,000 state employees but...

Auto-security company LoJack lays off 46 WESTWOOD, Mass., (UPI) -- LoJack Corp., the Westwood, Mass., vehicle-security system maker, said it will lay off 46 employees as part of restructuring. The layoffs will be primarily among employees at the company's headquarters and field sales staff...

Firm loses a ton of weight, literally ROCHESTER, N.Y., (UPI) -- Employees of a Rochester, N.Y., firm have lost a ton of weight -- actually 2,093 pounds to be exact, company officials said. As part of an overall wellness initiative that includes smoking cessation, stress management, nutrition...

First lady thanks Agriculture Department employees WASHINGTON – First lady Michelle Obama on Thursday added a White House touch to a garden being planted at a federal agency near the National Mall. Mrs. Obama gave the Agriculture Department a seedling from a magnolia tree on the White...