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(Reuters) - Janitorial services provider ABM Industries Inc said it would buy privately held rival GCA Services Group for about $1.25 billion, more than tripling revenue at its high-margin business that provides services to schools and colleges.
Shares of ABM rose as much as 5.4 percent to $42.90, their biggest intraday percentage gain in more than four months.
GCA Services is owned by Goldman Sachs Group Inc and private equity firm Thomas H Lee Partners LP. It provides janitorial and custodial services to more than 3,200 public schools and over 80 colleges and universities across United States.
More at source: Reuters
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TAMPA — A Tampa-based janitorial service provider has been charged with an "ongoing pattern" denying African-American applications employment based on their race in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Diversified Maintenance System, LLC is also accused of subjecting one black employee to racial slurs, discriminatory practices and punishment for opposing its unlawful actions.
"Diversified Maintenance disagrees with every aspect of the EEOC's allegations and firmly stands by the company's commitment to equal employment opportunities for all applicants," company spokesperson Carol Cookerly said in a statement Thursday. "After a two-year unproductive fishing expedition -— where Diversified Maintenance has been cooperative in responding to every extensive document request from the EEOC — the commission has clearly chosen to file an unsubstantiated lawsuit on behalf of one single disgruntled former employee citing manipulated and redacted statistics."
More at source: TampaBay.com
Every employee can benefit from a solid employee development program, whether they are salaried or hourly. Yet it's easily forgotten or let slide in the pressure of everyday business. Some days you might feel like it's hard enough to get through the day, much less manage and create a continued and future plan for employee development. But as a business owner, you can’t afford to cut employee development from your budget.
Why should you press on and try to make it happen in your business? Here are 5 reasons:
Employee retention is a huge challenge (and expense) for employers. So is the hiring process. Having a solid employee development program can help make that less of a burden.
When it comes to attracting and hiring the best employees, here’s why a solid employee development program matters:
Hiring managers and other upper-level employees from within is a good idea. Who else is more familiar with your day-to-day business, and with your customers? But not every long-time employee is ready for such positions, and promoting them when they aren't leads to problems.
A proper employee development program will:
Employee development both trains your current employees for possible future promotion from daily worker to management as well as shows you which employees have aptitude for such a promotion. Better to learn about strengths and weaknesses in training rather than out on the sales floor with actual customers.
Bored employees are a recipe for disaster. They easily take on negative attitudes, sloppy work habits, and cause damage to relationships with other employees and customers.
Employee development is a way that you can keep your employees engaged at work to prevent that kind of boredom from setting in. Interesting training programs, and future development events that are fun or challenging to look forward to — this removes the plodding daily feel to a job that leads to that dreaded boredom.
A good employee is like money in the bank.
That well-trained, confident, and engaged employee we've been talking about? They are going to do better work for you in the long run. That's going to help save you money, as employees become more efficient and proficient. Employee development also has the potential to increase salaries and output. Either way, that's good for your bottom line, and that's exactly why Sarvadi classified employee development not as an expense, but as an investment.
Employee development is a continuing thing, and that means that you always have to have an eye on the future. You'll be asking yourself:
Since your employees are integral to any answer you might come up with for these questions, their training and development are tightly involved, too.
That's what forces you to think ahead, because employee development programs don't happen without planning. The training that worked last year might not work next year. Your business culture might be shifting according to customer and industry needs. You might need to attract a different kind of employee and your development offerings need to shift to reflect that.
An employee development plan that's going to work necessarily forces you to consider the future path of your business. That's a good thing. Staying on your toes as far as relevant employee development is concerned means you'll be thinking ahead of the curve for your business.
Source: SBA
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Natural stone surfaces are a wonderful investment that deserve and require proper care. If you make a mistake or overlook maintenance, you could risk damaging your beautiful material.
While it’s true that natural stone is extremely durable and made to last, it is not indestructible. “There is a chemistry to natural stone, and making mistakes can harm it,” notes Tim Lesnar, owner of Classic Marble Restoration in Blaine, Minnesota.
Natural stone thrives under proper maintenance, says Brian Kornet, owner of Fabra-Cleen Stone & Tile Care in Plainview, N.Y.
More at source: Village News
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There’s nothing like a bit of toilet humour now and again but this revelation is no laughing matter.
No matter how good you are at cleaning your loo a hygiene expert says most of us are doing it wrong; and it could breed more germs than you would like to think about.
Stephanie from Expert Home Tips says the problem lays all with what you do with your toilet brush.
It’s not how you scrub, and lets not talk about what you are scrubbing, but it’s what you do next.
She said putting a wet brush back in the holder after you have used it is one of the worst things you can do. The wet brush will just be a brilliant breeding ground for germs and bacteria.
More at source: Starts At 60
NEWINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — It was a shocking surprise during Spring cleaning in Newington. A Connecticut DOT maintenance crew found more than 2 pounds of cocaine while they were cleaning up a wooded area between one of their facilities on Pascone Place and a shopping plaza off of the Berlin Turnpike.
“I literally kicked a kilo,” said one maintenance worker who was picking up trash.
The surprising find has generated a buzz in Newington.
“Oooh a bit shocked,” said one shopper at the plaza next door.
“It’s very strange,” another shopper said.
More at source: WTNH 8
Common cleaners used in homes, hotels and hospitals cause birth defects in fetuses, according to a new study of mice.
In some cases just being in the same room with the chemicals was enough to increase birth defects in the mice. The scientists involved say they can’t draw any conclusions for exposed humans but “animal studies are the gold standard for predicting human health effects,” said Terry Hrubec, professor and researcher at Virginia Tech University and lead author of the study published today in the journal Birth Defects Research.
The mice didn’t even need to be directly dosed–just using disinfectants in the rooms led to increased birth defect rates.People are exposed “every day to these chemicals,” she added ...
More at source: Enviromental Health News
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Over a seven-year period Gregori, owner of GMG Janitorial, GMG Billings, and Apex Janitorial Solutions, allegedly falsified documents and underreported payroll to her workers’ comp insurance company, according to CDI detectives.
More at source: Insurance Journal
June 10--A Chicago firm has abruptly given up its $14.74 million janitorial contract at St. Louis Lambert International Airport, spurring Lambert to seek new bids for the three-year deal.
United Maintenance Co. withdrew June 2. A few days earlier, Lambert officials had begun inquiring about a news report that United was accused by a Chicago agency of reserving jobs based on political considerations in violation of its contract with that city.
More at source: Aviation Pros
CONTRACTOR banned from cleaning state government schools because it underpaid its workers has been replaced by four companies that are also subject to allegations of underpayment.
The Andrews government is under increasing pressure to overhaul the state’s school-cleaning system.
The Education Department has received complaints that one of the companies failed to pay penalty rates, and paid some workers flat rates of $21.22 to $23.54 an hour rather than the award minimum of $24.58 an hour.
More at source: Herald Sun
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