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Coca-Cola workers agree to 1-day delay of strike at Niles, Alsip plants

June 16, 2018 at 10:44 a.m.

Workers at two Chicago-area Coca-Cola plants could have headed to the picket line Wednesday, but Teamsters Local 727 agreed to a one-day delay at the request of the company, the...

Bensinger, DuPont & Associates bought by Canadian employee assistance firm

August 18, 2019 at 3:41 p.m.

Chicago-based Bensinger, DuPont & Associates, a 34-year-old provider of workplace drug testing and employee counseling services, has been acquired by Canada's Morneau Shepell as the Toronto-based company grows its U.S....

Cyber Monday: Your boss is watching you shop and is probably OK with it

June 16, 2018 at 10:38 a.m.

It's Cyber Monday, and much of your workday has been spent clicking through 50-percent-off offers on winter sweaters. Is your boss watching? Chances are good that your holiday deal-seeking is...

Aquillia Mikel founded "Cash In," an alternative to Black Friday that features African-American owned businesses.

In Bronzeville, teacher promotes ‘buying black’

June 16, 2018 at 10:39 a.m.

Black Friday shopping has long been a tradition for Aquillia Mikel, but this year the 25-year-old Chicago teacher gave a different meaning to the term. As activists called for shopping...

Guillermo Giles, Esequiel Giles and William Rivera load what they bought at the Black Friday sale at the Target on North Elston Avenue in Chicago on Nov. 26, 2015.

Some stores along Michigan Ave. blocked during Black Friday protests

June 16, 2018 at 10:39 a.m.

Through a steady drizzle, hundreds of activists marched down Chicago's Magnificent Mile and blocked the entrances to some of the main drag's highest-end stores during a Black Friday morning protest...

Fewer offices plan to host holiday parties, survey says

June 16, 2018 at 10:39 a.m.

As the last of the pumpkin pie is digested, the holiday party binge-fest begins — but it seems a shrinking share of employers are getting into the partying spirit. Just...

Dave Petersen, CEO of NAI Hiffman, a real estate brokerage in Oakbrook Terrace, was surprised when his company didn't make the top 100 in 2012. So he changed things.

Want to improve your workplace? NAI Hiffman did, by listening to employees

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

NAI Hiffman participated in the Tribune's Top Workplaces survey for the first time in 2012. To the surprise of its chief executive, it did not make the Top 100. "I...

Omer Aguilar works with runner Kristin Shields at NovaCare Rehabilitation in Wicker Park on Oct. 7, 2015, as she prepared for the Chicago Marathon.

NovaCare: How a chain run like a small business can inspire workers

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

Days before the Chicago Marathon, physical therapist Omer Aguilar was digging his fingers into a patient's leg, pressing his elbow into her hip flexors, and giving her balancing and strengthening...

Business development representative Ellen Egerton wears pajamas to work Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, at The Jellyvision Lab offices in Chicago.

Why Pajama Day works at Jellyvision but might not at your company

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

It isn't every day that Jenn Kloc goes to work wearing a Forever Lazy, a fleece onesie with a zippered drop seat to minimize effort when nature calls. But this...

Elaine Echevarria, left, Yesenia Barajas and Alicia Godinez play UNO during a Fab 50 Social Club meeting at the C.W. Avery YMCA in Plainfield.

Joliet Area YMCA: ‘Everyone likes to be there’

May 9, 2019 at 2:49 p.m.

The Greater Joliet Area YMCA is having a good moment. Revenue is up, membership is up, program enrollment is up. Its most recent giving gala collected record-high donations, staff retention...

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