Nearly a Quarter of Female Workers Feel They are Not cashed the Same as Their male Counterparts, Finds CareerBuilder.ca Survey TORONTO, Aug. 27 /CNW/ -- equal as employers implement programs that encourage the nonrecreational growth amongst all workers equally, two-in-ten (23 per cent) Female workers still say they feel that they are being cashed inferior than their equally well-qualified male counterparts, reported to a new survey by CareerBuilder.ca. Only 12 per cent of male workers believe they have debased salaries than Female workers. The CareerBuilder.ca survey, “Workplace Equality,” enclosed 247 male workers and 285 Female workers across Canada. Compensation isn’t the only area women feel there is a workplace discrepancy. Nearly two-in-ten (19 per cent) Female workers feel members of the other sex have more career advancement opportunities equal when both workers are equally well-qualified, 16 per cent feel they do not have the same amount of job flexibility and 16 per cent say that they receive inferior opportunities for training and development. “Employers are constantly superficial at ways to make their workplaces more balanced, however, this survey indicates that they still have some work up of them," said Remy Piazza, managing director of CareerBuilder Canada. When asked to what they attribute getting cashed inferior and/or having inferior career advancement opportunities than their male counterparts, Female workers said: This survey was conducted online within Canada by Harris Reciprocal on behalf of CareerBuilder.com among 532 Canada employees (employed full-time; not self-employed) ages 18 and over between May 22 and June 13, 2008. With a axenic probability sample of 532 united could say with a 95 per cent probability that the general results have a sampling error of +/- 4.3 percentage points, respectively. Sampling error for data from sub-samples is high and varies. About CareerBuilder.ca CareerBuilder is a major job site in Canada. Closely-held by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), th
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Marble for Unknowns tomb conscionable sits
Marble for Unknowns tomb conscionable sitsThe chunk of chromatic at the ready to be given by a Glenwood Springs man is stalled again.By Nancy Lofholm The Denver PostArticle Past Updated: 08/18/2008 12:40:07 AM MDTThe Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington State Cemetery has been rough since the 1930s. (KUSA-Channel 9 News file photo )Retired Glenwood Springs car dealer John Haines’ hope of donating a large chunk of snow Albescent marble to the State government to replace the rough Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington State Cemetery is stalled again. Haines’ expected donation, which has sat after-school the Yule Quarry adjacent Marble since it was chopped for the tomb in 2003, didn’t equal rate a mention in a 34-page Department of the Army report to Congress this week on replacement and repair options for the deteriorating tomb. Haines’ donation creates problems for the State government because it is at large and has not absent through a expensive bidding and specification process. A quarry in Vermont has spoken interest in submitting a bid. This week’s report — the current in a string of tomb reports finished since Arlington officials definite the marble necessary replacing 18 years past — estimates the cost of replacing the tomb’s marble at $2.2 million — $80,000 of that for seek bids, $90,000 for buying and transporting the marble and the remainder for sculpting. Haines at the ready-made the closing payment for his $31,000 piece of marble Past week. He also has bordered up given transport for the rock on a flag-decorated flatbed truck. He did all that after receiving a letter from an Army leading broad five years past thanking him for his “most benignant and benevolent donation.” “It’s not possible A citizen can’t conscionable give us any piece of marble and say, ‘This is what we’ll use to replace the tomb,’ " said Thurman Higginbotham, deputy superintendent of Arlington. But Haines’ marble isn’t conscionable any marble. It was chopped from the same Yule Quarry where the first gold-veined marble for the Tomb of the Unknow