Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - EFQM and UNGC join forces towards Sustainable Excellence The EFQM Good Practice Competition focuses this year on identifying real and tangible examples of how organisations ensure they comply with the UNGC's 10 principles. EFQM decided to align the theme of this year's competition to support the 15th anniversary of the UN Global Compact. The competition is open to applications from any ...
Lausanne (ots) - Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), the Conrad N. Hilton College at the University of Houston and the School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) join forces to offer an exceptional new Master's program in Global Hospitality Business. Representatives from the three leading universities in hospitality management and industry partners join a conference ...
Egon Zehnder International GmbH
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Findings Highlighted in Egon Zehnder's 2014 European Board Diversity Analysis More than 20 percent of directors on large European company boards are women, a significant increase from 15.6 percent just two years ago and a jump from 8 percent in 2004. These are the findings of the 2014 Egon ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Deconstructing the Deregulation Bill The Government's draft Deregulation Bill first appeared in June last year. Clause 1 of that draft bill includes proposals to exempt certain self-employed people from health and safety law. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/71400542-SHP-IOSH-deregulation-bill This has caused some controversy among health and safety ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Health and safety bodies unite to launch Health & Safety Week 2014 To celebrate the UK's 85% reduction in fatal accidents since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act in 1974, the country's leading health and safety bodies are uniting to launch Health & Safety Week 2014, 16th - 20th June, at Safety & Health Expo and reinstate a positive image for this exceptionally worthwhile profession. (Logo: ...
Bridgewater, New Jersey (ots) - Helsinn Group, the company focused on building quality cancer care, is pleased to announce today that its U.S. subsidiary, Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc., has been named as one of the 100 best places to work in New Jersey in a survey and award program conducted by NJBIZ which recognizes and honors the state's top employers who show a ...
2014 International Summit of Cooperatives
Quebec City (ots/PRNewswire) - Current topics and vital issues! The 2014 International Summit of Cooperatives just unveiled a diverse and relevant program. From October 6 to 9, presentations, forums, and round tables will allow participants from around the world to discuss subjects that speak to cooperatives and mutuals of the 21st century. "The themes for this second edition of the Summit were selected to promote the ...
Philip Morris International Inc.
Lausanne (ots) - Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) today announced it has opened an employee consultation on the company's intention to restructure its global and regional functions based in Switzerland. The intended restructuring aims to reduce ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - Caring bosses who help employees with their personal and work problems shouldn't expect gratitude, loyalty and commitment in return, new research has warned. According to a study by IMD business school, most managers believe offering emotional support will benefit their company. Yet most employees simply view such shows of kindness as part of their superiors' duties and have no intention of ...
JTI Japan Tobacco International AG
Geneva, Switzerlande (ots) - JTI (Japan Tobacco International) has been selected by Great Place to Work® as one of the 100 Best Workplaces in Europe for 2013. Four JTI markets have been qualified in the '25 Best Multinational Workplaces' category: Ireland, Italy, Spain, and Turkey. This milestone was celebrated on ...
European Broadcasting Union (EBU)
Geneva (ots/PRNewswire) - The Director General of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Ingrid Deltenre, today condemned the threat of legal action made by the Greek government against satellite operators that transmit the ERT signal over Europe and Asia. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130613/621657 ) ...
Wil, Switzerland (ots) - In comparison with paper-based processes, electronic invoice handling processes make it possible to reduce costs by 50-80%. Investments in electronic invoice processing can therefore often be gained back within 6 months. Many companies are already using electronic processes. In 2013 around 20 billion bills/invoices globally and 5.5 billion ...
Zurich (ots/PRNewswire) - - Launch of Around the World in 80 Jobs(TM) to give young people the chance to gain international work experience and inspire their generation On Tuesday, over 10,000 Adecco employees in 50 countries, organized more than 1,000 actions in over 500 cities around the globe. Reaching more than half a million youngsters in the streets, in public places, at schools and universities, they offered career ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - IMD, a top-ranked global business school based in Switzerland, today announced plans to launch five new open-enrollment programs in 2013. These leadership-focused programs are designed to meet the ever-evolving needs of senior executives, including growing demands for insight on Asia. ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots) - IMD, the world pioneer in executive education, announced a new Asia edition to its Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP) program, which will take place in Singapore from November 17-22, 2013. www.imd.org/owp For 19 years at the IMD campus in Lausanne, Switzerland, OWP has served as a forum for global executives looking to step back and ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey announces the availability of WISeID for Windows Desktop, which fully supports cloud synchronization via Dropbox with WISeID 4.0 for iOS, Mac and Android. Forgot a password? Never again with WISeID, the only password you'll ever need. WISeID Data Locker helps users to securely store and remember all digital personal data on a single ...
Zurich, Switzerland (ots) - Albis Technologies successfully participated in EANTC's public multi-vendor interoperability event and the showcase at the Carrier Ethernet World Congress (CEWC). Interoperability was demonstrated with the ULAF+ ACCEED solution in the fields of Business Access and Mobile Backhaul. Daniel Berz, Senior Technical Sales Manager of Albis ...
Geneva, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Government Ignores Deteriorating Health of Federal Justice Workers In protest against repeated human and trade union rights violations, nine union members, five women and four men, began an unlimited hunger strike on 6 May in Algiers, Algeria. Despite urgent requests for meetings, and daily reports on the workers' rapidly ...
European Wind Energy Association (EWEA)
Brussels (ots/PRNewswire) - The European wind power industry's contribution to EU economic growth will increase almost threefold over the decade by 2020. More than half a million people will be working for the wind power industry in Europe by 2020. The sector has been proven to be a powerful motor against economic slowdown in Europe. This will be shown on Monday 16 April 2012, as the European Wind Energy Association ...
Carouge (ots) - Infomaniak Network SA launches a media storage and publishing platform for large-scale companies. At a time when it is very easy to publish videos on Internet web sites, the fastest integrations are made possible with the use of such platforms as Youtube and Dailymotion. However, these generally free solutions offer very rigid settings and impose ...
Paris, November 29 (ots/PRNewswire) - On Wednesday 30 November, public sector workers will protest austerity measures in more than 25 European countries, following a call for action by the European Federation of Public Service Unions. Actions will include strikes, demonstrations and public marches. In Britain, unions are planning the largest strike since 1926 - to ...
Yverdon-Les-Bains, Switzerland (ots) - Enterprise-class, Open Source Network Backup and Restore Solution Receives Further Enhancements to Bring High-Value, Low-TCO Opportunity to IT Departments Bacula Systems®, the world's leading provider of commercial open source backup and restore software, announced today the availability of its Linux bare metal restore feature ...
Bern/Stockholm (ots) - Bucher + Suter AG, specialists for intelligent contact centers, and Teleopti AB, Workforce Management specialists, cooperate to streamline Workforce Management solutions in Cisco contact centers. Workforce Management (WFM) solutions and their deployment projects are considered to be complex. Combining proven solutions from Teleopti with services ...
Nyon (ots) - Bank workers and their unions from around the world are coming together to demand Spanish banking giant Santander respects its employees no matter where they work. UNI Finance Global Union is leading an international trade union delegation to Boston today to support Santander workers in the United States who want union representation. There is ...
Nyon (ots) - Top European players unions are in Madrid today at the European Sports Forum to tell the European Commissioner responsible for Sport, Androulla Vassiliou, that European athletes must be covered by EU laws protecting workers' rights. The unions won't accept a special application of EU law for sport and are protesting their apparent exclusion from ...
Nyon (ots) - European bank workers will demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the European Central Bank in Frankfurt this morning to call for a radical change in the sales practices of financial service providers. UNI Finance Global Union, German union ver.di, bank workers and representatives of ...
Nyon (ots) - Unions are blasting German-based post and logistics company Deutsche Post DHL for the betrayal of its hallmark value of respect in a new video that highlights the company's failure to respect worker's rights worldwide. Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnOyql_iXIg DHL is ...
Nyon (ots) - A union makes the difference between low-quality, high-risk, isolating jobs and a secure, fulfilling career in the world's call centres, said UNI Global Union today. October is Call Centre Action Month and UNI and its affiliates around the world will be calling on one company in particular, Telefonica, to give its workers the chance to have a ...
Geneva (ots) - WISeKey SA announced today it has received orders in June totaling CHF 4.5 million from several clients from its anti-counterfeiting and Digital Identity system that safeguards and verifies the authenticity of luxury goods and protects the digital identity of users. "Together with the ...