July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
Wal-Mart to screen applicants
Business Rondup
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the country’s largest private employer, said this week it will begin conducting criminal background checks on job candidates for its U.S.-based Wal-Mart stores and Sam’s Club membership warehouses.
The Bentonville, Ark. retailer, which employs 1.5 million people world-wide, came under fire recently for two separate incidents in South Carolina where Wal-Mart employees were accused of sexually assaulting young girls. Both of the accused employees had past criminal convictions for sexually related offenses, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.
Currently, Wal-Mart routinely conducts criminal background checks on select personnel, including certain executives.
This year, Wal-Mart will create 83,00 new jobs in all of its U.S. divisions.
The company said the criminal background checks won’t be done on all applicants, but only on those who are determined to be qualified candidates for actual hiring. Doing background checks on all applicants could be costly, company officials said. Frequently, more than 4,000 people apply for 500 openings with the company.
Wal-Mart also reported strong increases in fiscal second-quarter net profit.
Wal-Mart and Target, the nation’s largest discount retailers, cited leaner inventories, leading to more full-price selling, as well as cheaper buying costs from sourcing overseas as catalysts for improved earnings in a tough consumer-spending environment.
The second half of the year poses more challenges for the bellwether Wal-Mart. The company faces mounting expenses and tough sales comparisons from last year.
The company reported net income of $2.65 billion, or 62 cents a share, for the period ended July 31 — up 8.5 percent from $2.44 billion, or 56 cents a share, a year earlier.
WSU OFFERINGS
The popular software package, QuickBooks 2004 and the equally popular Excel 2003 are being offered this fall through the Business Enterprise Center at the Lake Campus of Wright State University. Ron Kremer, Lake Campus Associate Professor of Accountancy, will teach both classes.
The QuickBooks 2004 workshop will be offered in two different sequences. The first workshop, taught in three sessions, will be held Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1. Times are from 6 to 10 p.m. (Ohio time) in Room 194 at the campus. The cost is $90.
The second QuickBooks workshop, a day-time session, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 7, Thursday, Sept. 9, and Tuesday, Sept. 14. Time is 8 a.m. to noon. This session is also held in Room 194, and the cost for the three-session seminar is $90.
These workshops will review various means of data entry for accurate record keeping, and participants will learn to set up and use the accounting software QuickBooks 2004. Instruction will be in such topics as invoice and statement preparation, inventory tracking, payroll, and financial reporting. Reports can be easily transferred to Excel spreadsheets.
All participants will receive a certificate for completing the 12-hour workshop.
A second workshop in two sequences offered by the Lake Campus’ Business Enterprise Center and taught by Ron Kremer is Excel 2003, an electronic spreadsheet program. The 12-hour program will emphasize record keeping, business applications and various techniques using the spreadsheet. Excel basic formulas to complex computations will be covered.
Excel also will be offered in evening and daytime sessions. An evening workshop will be Wednesday, Sept. 22, Monday, Sept. 27 and Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Room 188. The day session’s dates are Thursday, Sept. 16, Tuesday, Sept. 21 and Thursday, Sept. 23. Times are 8 a.m. to noon in Room 194.
The cost for each of these three-session workshops is $90. All participants will receive a certificate for completing the 12-hour workshops.
For more information about the BEC or to register for either of these business series, call BEC support staff coordinator Carol Jones at (419) 586-0310. The schedule also can be accessed from the Wright State web site at www.wright.edu.
OSHA CLASSES
Top safety trainer Bill Pfister, former Indiana OSHA inspector and safety training consultant for the Bureau of Safety Education and Training, will lead instruction at the Indiana Chamber’s upcoming OSHA 10-, 20- and 30-hour voluntary compliance courses on Aug. 24-27 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Indianapolis.
Pfister is currently the president of Safety and Training Consulting Inc., which provides occupational safety and health training and consulting services throughout the country.
Course topics include:
Review of OSHA standards
Inspections, citations, penalties and most cited violations
New recordkeeping requirements
Hazard communication
Electrical safety-palates work practices
Respiratory protection
Hearing conservation
Hazard search workshop
The chamber’s complete workplace safety schedule is as follows:
•OSHA 10-Hour Voluntary Compliance Course — Aug. 24-25; cost: chamber members, $595; non-members, $695. Two Safety Compliance Specialist Certificate credits earned.
•OSHA 20-Hour Voluntary Compliance Course — Aug. 25-27; cost: chamber members, $695; non-members, $895. Three Safety Compliance Specialist Certificate credits earned.
•OSHA 30-Hour Voluntary Compliance Course — Aug. 24-27; cost: chamber members, $895; non-members, $1,095. Four Safety Compliance Specialist Certificate credits earned.
An organization sending three representatives can receive a fourth registration at no cost. Attendees receive a copy of the General Industry (1910) Code of Federal Regulations (a $50 value) free with registration.
To register to attend these courses, visit www.indianachamber.com or call (317) 264-6885 or (800) 824-6885.
TRAINING OFFERED
The Indiana State Department of Health and the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Indiana announce the creation of an Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Training Program.
The goal of the program is to improve the quality of life and care for residents living in the more than 600 nursing homes in Indiana.
This two-year program will create and provide educational programs for nursing home staff who work with residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. The program is designed to provide nursing home staff with a better understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, to discuss care issues of residents resulting from those diseases, and to highlight “best practices” for meeting care needs of residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
“The program addresses a significant public health need being faced by many Indiana families,” said State Health Commissioner Greg Wilson, M.D.
“Providing care for persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia is a challenge for families and for health care providers.
This program will provide a forum for health care providers and experts to share ideas towards achieving the best quality of life and care for our senior citizens.”
By the conclusion of the two-year program, eight courses will have been presented in a total of 52 sessions to approximately 1,865 health facility staff and 150 State Department of Health Long Term Care Division surveyors.
The program will address a growing health care problem. According to a 2002 study by the Indiana Legislative Council, about 60 percent of all nursing home residents have dementia, with more than half of dementias caused by Alzheimer’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease combined with vascular disease. There are currently an estimated 106,000 Indiana residents with Alzheimer’s disease. Approximately a third of those residents are cared for in long-term care facilities.
Nationally, the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease is expected to grow, from 4 million people in 2000, to 8.7 million people in 2020, to 14.3 million by 2050.
People with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia have difficulty communicating, learning, thinking and reasoning. Providing care to these residents requires patience, compassion and an understanding of Alzheimer’s and dementia disease processes. Providing this care on a daily basis can be difficult and trying for even the best caregivers. A goal of the program is to provide care approaches aimed at reducing abuse and neglect of residents with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health promulgated new rules requiring health facilities to provide their staff with specific training on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. For staff having regular contact with Alzheimer’s or dementia residents, the rules require a minimum of six hours of in-service training on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia-related disorders within six months of employment, or within 30 days for personnel assigned to the Alzheimer’s and dementia special care unit. The rules further require the facility to designate a director for an Alzheimer’s and dementia special care unit who completes a minimum of 12 hours of dementia-specific training within three months of being hired. After initial training, staff will be further required to complete annual training on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care.
The training program is designed to promote the implementation of the new health facility rules and assist health facilities in the development of quality training programs. The state health department expects that each health facility will send a few of their staff to participate in the educational programs. Those persons will then carry the information back to their facility and use it to create training sessions for their entire facility staff.
This free program is being funded with monies from federal fines issued to Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes in Indiana. The Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Indiana is providing their expertise and experience to develop, organize, and present the educational courses.
LABOR LAW SESSION
The East Central Indiana Payroll Association’s membership meeting will be held at the Delaware Country Club on Aug. 19. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., with lunch and program to follow at noon.
This month’s speaker will be Gary Kale from the Indiana Department of Labor. He will speak on Indiana labor laws.
The cost of lunch is $6, and reservations should be made by calling Debbie Montgomery at (765) 741-7674 or by e-mailing her at [email protected]. The deadline is Aug. 17.
REDUCED RATES
Students residing in 12 eastern Indiana counties can now pay Ohio in-state tuition rates to attend Wright State University — resulting in a savings of more than $20,000 over a four-year college career.
Kim Goldenberg, president of Wright State, recently signed the reciprocity agreement that was approved by the Ohio Board of Regents and Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
The 12 Indiana counties involved are Jay, Adams, Randolph, Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Rush, Union, Wayne and Wells. Both new and currently enrolled students from these counties who complete the necessary forms can benefit from the program.
The new tuition rates for all undergraduate and graduate students will apply to both the main WSU campus in Dayton and the Lake Campus facility in Celina. The program will begin this fall.
More details are available by calling the WSU Office of Undergraduate Admissions at (800) 247-1770.
CANCER SEMINAR
The Center for Cancer Care at Goshen health System will host a free colon cancer seminar on Thursday, Aug. 19 in Fort Wayne.
Dr. Richard B. Hostetter, a board-certified surgical oncologist and associate medical director of the Center for Cancer Care’s cancer program, will discuss the latest treatments involving colon cancer at the Grand Wayne Center.
In addition to addressing the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, natural ways to treat and prevent cancer also will be discussed.
To reserve a space at the seminar, call (866) 253-0448 or visit www.cancermidwest.com. Seating is limited.[[In-content Ad]]
The Bentonville, Ark. retailer, which employs 1.5 million people world-wide, came under fire recently for two separate incidents in South Carolina where Wal-Mart employees were accused of sexually assaulting young girls. Both of the accused employees had past criminal convictions for sexually related offenses, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.
Currently, Wal-Mart routinely conducts criminal background checks on select personnel, including certain executives.
This year, Wal-Mart will create 83,00 new jobs in all of its U.S. divisions.
The company said the criminal background checks won’t be done on all applicants, but only on those who are determined to be qualified candidates for actual hiring. Doing background checks on all applicants could be costly, company officials said. Frequently, more than 4,000 people apply for 500 openings with the company.
Wal-Mart also reported strong increases in fiscal second-quarter net profit.
Wal-Mart and Target, the nation’s largest discount retailers, cited leaner inventories, leading to more full-price selling, as well as cheaper buying costs from sourcing overseas as catalysts for improved earnings in a tough consumer-spending environment.
The second half of the year poses more challenges for the bellwether Wal-Mart. The company faces mounting expenses and tough sales comparisons from last year.
The company reported net income of $2.65 billion, or 62 cents a share, for the period ended July 31 — up 8.5 percent from $2.44 billion, or 56 cents a share, a year earlier.
WSU OFFERINGS
The popular software package, QuickBooks 2004 and the equally popular Excel 2003 are being offered this fall through the Business Enterprise Center at the Lake Campus of Wright State University. Ron Kremer, Lake Campus Associate Professor of Accountancy, will teach both classes.
The QuickBooks 2004 workshop will be offered in two different sequences. The first workshop, taught in three sessions, will be held Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 30 and 31 and Sept. 1. Times are from 6 to 10 p.m. (Ohio time) in Room 194 at the campus. The cost is $90.
The second QuickBooks workshop, a day-time session, will be held Tuesday, Sept. 7, Thursday, Sept. 9, and Tuesday, Sept. 14. Time is 8 a.m. to noon. This session is also held in Room 194, and the cost for the three-session seminar is $90.
These workshops will review various means of data entry for accurate record keeping, and participants will learn to set up and use the accounting software QuickBooks 2004. Instruction will be in such topics as invoice and statement preparation, inventory tracking, payroll, and financial reporting. Reports can be easily transferred to Excel spreadsheets.
All participants will receive a certificate for completing the 12-hour workshop.
A second workshop in two sequences offered by the Lake Campus’ Business Enterprise Center and taught by Ron Kremer is Excel 2003, an electronic spreadsheet program. The 12-hour program will emphasize record keeping, business applications and various techniques using the spreadsheet. Excel basic formulas to complex computations will be covered.
Excel also will be offered in evening and daytime sessions. An evening workshop will be Wednesday, Sept. 22, Monday, Sept. 27 and Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 6 to 10 p.m. in Room 188. The day session’s dates are Thursday, Sept. 16, Tuesday, Sept. 21 and Thursday, Sept. 23. Times are 8 a.m. to noon in Room 194.
The cost for each of these three-session workshops is $90. All participants will receive a certificate for completing the 12-hour workshops.
For more information about the BEC or to register for either of these business series, call BEC support staff coordinator Carol Jones at (419) 586-0310. The schedule also can be accessed from the Wright State web site at www.wright.edu.
OSHA CLASSES
Top safety trainer Bill Pfister, former Indiana OSHA inspector and safety training consultant for the Bureau of Safety Education and Training, will lead instruction at the Indiana Chamber’s upcoming OSHA 10-, 20- and 30-hour voluntary compliance courses on Aug. 24-27 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Indianapolis.
Pfister is currently the president of Safety and Training Consulting Inc., which provides occupational safety and health training and consulting services throughout the country.
Course topics include:
Review of OSHA standards
Inspections, citations, penalties and most cited violations
New recordkeeping requirements
Hazard communication
Electrical safety-palates work practices
Respiratory protection
Hearing conservation
Hazard search workshop
The chamber’s complete workplace safety schedule is as follows:
•OSHA 10-Hour Voluntary Compliance Course — Aug. 24-25; cost: chamber members, $595; non-members, $695. Two Safety Compliance Specialist Certificate credits earned.
•OSHA 20-Hour Voluntary Compliance Course — Aug. 25-27; cost: chamber members, $695; non-members, $895. Three Safety Compliance Specialist Certificate credits earned.
•OSHA 30-Hour Voluntary Compliance Course — Aug. 24-27; cost: chamber members, $895; non-members, $1,095. Four Safety Compliance Specialist Certificate credits earned.
An organization sending three representatives can receive a fourth registration at no cost. Attendees receive a copy of the General Industry (1910) Code of Federal Regulations (a $50 value) free with registration.
To register to attend these courses, visit www.indianachamber.com or call (317) 264-6885 or (800) 824-6885.
TRAINING OFFERED
The Indiana State Department of Health and the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Indiana announce the creation of an Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Training Program.
The goal of the program is to improve the quality of life and care for residents living in the more than 600 nursing homes in Indiana.
This two-year program will create and provide educational programs for nursing home staff who work with residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia. The program is designed to provide nursing home staff with a better understanding of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, to discuss care issues of residents resulting from those diseases, and to highlight “best practices” for meeting care needs of residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
“The program addresses a significant public health need being faced by many Indiana families,” said State Health Commissioner Greg Wilson, M.D.
“Providing care for persons diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia is a challenge for families and for health care providers.
This program will provide a forum for health care providers and experts to share ideas towards achieving the best quality of life and care for our senior citizens.”
By the conclusion of the two-year program, eight courses will have been presented in a total of 52 sessions to approximately 1,865 health facility staff and 150 State Department of Health Long Term Care Division surveyors.
The program will address a growing health care problem. According to a 2002 study by the Indiana Legislative Council, about 60 percent of all nursing home residents have dementia, with more than half of dementias caused by Alzheimer’s disease or Alzheimer’s disease combined with vascular disease. There are currently an estimated 106,000 Indiana residents with Alzheimer’s disease. Approximately a third of those residents are cared for in long-term care facilities.
Nationally, the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease is expected to grow, from 4 million people in 2000, to 8.7 million people in 2020, to 14.3 million by 2050.
People with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia have difficulty communicating, learning, thinking and reasoning. Providing care to these residents requires patience, compassion and an understanding of Alzheimer’s and dementia disease processes. Providing this care on a daily basis can be difficult and trying for even the best caregivers. A goal of the program is to provide care approaches aimed at reducing abuse and neglect of residents with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.
In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health promulgated new rules requiring health facilities to provide their staff with specific training on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. For staff having regular contact with Alzheimer’s or dementia residents, the rules require a minimum of six hours of in-service training on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia-related disorders within six months of employment, or within 30 days for personnel assigned to the Alzheimer’s and dementia special care unit. The rules further require the facility to designate a director for an Alzheimer’s and dementia special care unit who completes a minimum of 12 hours of dementia-specific training within three months of being hired. After initial training, staff will be further required to complete annual training on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia care.
The training program is designed to promote the implementation of the new health facility rules and assist health facilities in the development of quality training programs. The state health department expects that each health facility will send a few of their staff to participate in the educational programs. Those persons will then carry the information back to their facility and use it to create training sessions for their entire facility staff.
This free program is being funded with monies from federal fines issued to Medicare/Medicaid-certified nursing homes in Indiana. The Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Indiana is providing their expertise and experience to develop, organize, and present the educational courses.
LABOR LAW SESSION
The East Central Indiana Payroll Association’s membership meeting will be held at the Delaware Country Club on Aug. 19. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m., with lunch and program to follow at noon.
This month’s speaker will be Gary Kale from the Indiana Department of Labor. He will speak on Indiana labor laws.
The cost of lunch is $6, and reservations should be made by calling Debbie Montgomery at (765) 741-7674 or by e-mailing her at [email protected]. The deadline is Aug. 17.
REDUCED RATES
Students residing in 12 eastern Indiana counties can now pay Ohio in-state tuition rates to attend Wright State University — resulting in a savings of more than $20,000 over a four-year college career.
Kim Goldenberg, president of Wright State, recently signed the reciprocity agreement that was approved by the Ohio Board of Regents and Indiana Commission for Higher Education.
The 12 Indiana counties involved are Jay, Adams, Randolph, Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin, Henry, Rush, Union, Wayne and Wells. Both new and currently enrolled students from these counties who complete the necessary forms can benefit from the program.
The new tuition rates for all undergraduate and graduate students will apply to both the main WSU campus in Dayton and the Lake Campus facility in Celina. The program will begin this fall.
More details are available by calling the WSU Office of Undergraduate Admissions at (800) 247-1770.
CANCER SEMINAR
The Center for Cancer Care at Goshen health System will host a free colon cancer seminar on Thursday, Aug. 19 in Fort Wayne.
Dr. Richard B. Hostetter, a board-certified surgical oncologist and associate medical director of the Center for Cancer Care’s cancer program, will discuss the latest treatments involving colon cancer at the Grand Wayne Center.
In addition to addressing the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, natural ways to treat and prevent cancer also will be discussed.
To reserve a space at the seminar, call (866) 253-0448 or visit www.cancermidwest.com. Seating is limited.[[In-content Ad]]
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