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The Practical Employer Court Rules Employers Cannot Take Overtime Credit for Paid Lunches The FLSA only permits employers to take an offset against overtime payments in three limited circumstances. October 12, 2016 by

AP Photo/Paul Sakuma Amazon.com has been continually upping the ante on how quickly and conveniently it can get people their orders through an array of last-mile logistics innovations. But a new delivery option sounds like it could strike some as a little too convenient for comfort. Amazon is…

The holiday shopping season has begun, like it or not. Sixteen percent of shoppers have begun shopping for the holidays, according to the RetailMeNot Inc. 2016 Retailer Guide to Consumer Trends. Forty-six percent said they would begin before Nov. 1. Last year, the weeks leading up to Christmas Day,…

Home Industries Telecommunications The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 11, 2016 10:15 p.m. ET Share Third time telecom will use unusual fundraising tactic Bloomberg News Sprint has been losing money for several years, and has nearly $37 billion of total…

Cartoon by Ted Rall. It’s one of the most common questions you will ever receive when you go in for a job interview: where will you be in five years? These days questions about a certain presidential candidate and his temperament lead one to conclude that that answer might have more meaning than…

We live in an age where you have just a few seconds to impress someone with your website, tagline, or bio. We have become masters at engineering the “perfect” profiles to hook others in and the right pitches to land the job or career advancements we want. If you can outperform your competition, or…

Working Well Is Your Workforce Happy? On World Mental Health Day, blogger Andie Burjek explains the aspects of American Express' Healthy Minds program which make it successful. October 11, 2016 by

Samsung Electronics’ nightmarish phone-explosion problem may weigh on its sales and leave a blemish on the brand, but the outcome might’ve been worse had it happened to Apple Inc. Apple AAPL, +0.22% is much more reliant on its handheld devices than Samsung 005930, -8.04% is on its family of Galaxy…

China has reclaimed between 2,900 and 3,200 acres (1,294 hectares) of land in a widely disputed sea off its south coast, outraging neighbors. Anger crested in Vietnam in 2014 with deadly anti-Beijing protests as the Philippines was asking the world arbitration court for a ruling on how much China…

A service that originally found millions of fans as part of a new computing paradigm eventually hits a ceiling for the number of users it can attract, leading to a flagging stock, questions about its raison d’être, and larger companies considering a merger to add eyeballs or brand cachet. Yep,…

Shares of Apple Inc. hit their highest prices of 2016 on Tuesday as Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s exploding-phone saga worsened and one analyst said Apple could sell millions of iPhones because of it. Samsung 005930, +1.28% announced Monday afternoon that any Galaxy Note 7 devices that have been…

Immigration 5 Ways to Manage the Workplace Immigration Process Ongoing I-9 and E-Verify enforcement efforts let employers know that serious civil and criminal sanctions can be imposed for noncompliance. October 10, 2016 by

Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Over the years, I’ve earned a reputation as somebody that celebrities turn to in a crisis. I’m the guy that became chairman of Steve Madden when he came under investigation. I’m the guy that Martha called the day she was convicted. And I’m the guy that had to tell…

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The Wall Street Journal By and Published: Oct 9, 2016 4:16 p.m. ET Share Partnership will help production company distribute its movies in China Bloomberg News Jack Ma, chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. By Alyssa Abkowitz Erich Schwartzel Not even Steven Spielberg is immune to Chinese moves…

India is rising in the global economy, leaving neighboring Pakistan and Bangladesh in the dust, and closing in on China. When it comes to global competitiveness that is, climbing 32 ranks in World Economic Forum’s competitiveness index in the last two years! That’s good news for investors who have…

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the L.A. LIVE entertainment complex in downtown Los Angeles, California, U.S., Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg If you’re putting together a public relations (PR) effort for your company, I urge you to let go of the antiquated picture you may have in your head of…

“The harder I work, the luckier I get” is a quote that describes Mariam Naficy. Mariam is a woman who never rests on her laurels (trust me, she has many) and approaches her personal and professional life with passion and dedication that is enviable. Naficy co-founded her first company, Eve.com, in…

Photo by Sara D. Davis/Getty Images The presidential election is almost at an end and most of the country couldn’t be happier at that fact. But businesses might be looking at the presidential election in a different way. There are a lot of marketing lessons that can be learned from both candidates,…

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Tesla assembly Model S cars in the Tesla factory in Fremont, California. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) There is nothing small about the ambitions of Tesla Motors and its CEO Elon Musk. The brash California carmaker, planning the auto industry’s fastest production increase and mid-way through construction of…

(Photo courtesy of Pexels) In this digital age, data security and password protection are a daily, even hourly, fact of life. There’s a continuous flow of news about security breaches and hacks. A company like Yahoo! couldn’t defend itself against hackers who were able steal 500 million user…

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It is almost as if the earth shifted a few degrees on its axis and no one noticed. The finance and nonprofit worlds have come together to create a financing model that literally allows investors to earn a positive financial return on programs that lead to reductions in homelessness–and no one seems…

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It’s a story that’s as old as time itself: boy meets girl; girl loans boy $450K to fund the creation of a golf-themed comic strip; boy laughs his way all the way to the car dealership; boy loses girl, but keeps the cash. Wait…what’s that you say? You’ve never heard story before? Well, trust me, it…

Deep-pocketed suitors are reportedly dropping their bids for Twitter—a blow that could deal a hefty hit to the social media company’s shares, analysts said Thursday. Twitter Inc. TWTR, -5.12% dropped 20.1% to $19.87 Thursday, following a Recode report Wednesday evening, citing unnamed sources,…

Since the financial crisis, economies around the world have hurtled from one crisis or market panic to another, whether it was fears over European government indebtedness, deflation in Japan, a slowing of the Chinese growth engine, or the near-debt default of the United States in 2011. With each new…

The Fancy Bear hackers who breached the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) released emails and other documents about the use of banned substances by American athletes on Thursday. Previously, the group had only leaked files listing Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUEs), banned substances allowed for use…

Hackers can take advantage of Apple Macs’ features to spy on webcam sessions. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images) Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker with a penchant for finding novel Apple Mac hacks, has proposed a new way snoops might spy on people via their webcams. As Macs make their camera…

Editor's Notebook Making a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Dash at HR Tech Show I gleaned some keen insights into the current state of the industry and met two of our 2016 Workforce Game Changers. October 6, 2016 by

The Fed decided to postpone an expected interest rate hike. Most institutional investors and financial advisors breathed a sigh of relief, and now savvy stock pickers are getting back to the business of ferreting out whatever bargains remain in this aging bull market. Here are the best ideas for the…

Are you a really a long-term investor? This is a great time to look in the mirror and answer that question, because stock valuations have continued to rise in the prolonged low-interest-rate environment, and the multiple expansion cannot go on forever. John Carey, an executive vice president of…

As I’ve written in the past, tennis is one of my obsessions. So is my diminishing memory. Recently, I managed to bring them together. Who among us is not feeling the effects – forgetfulness chief among them? Photo: Shutterstock In the middle of a hard-fought match, both my opponent, Carlo, and I got…

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Home Industries The Wall Street Journal Get email alerts The Wall Street Journal By Published: Oct 6, 2016 2:33 p.m. ET Share The program launched weeks after the retailer announced a 17% drop in profits Bloomberg News Bed Bath & Beyond had become well-known for the many coupons sent to shoppers By…

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