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According to a September 29th article in the Chicago Sun-Times, Sears Holding Corporation has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $6.2 million related to a disability discrimination case that has traversed ... injured workers to return to work -- in direct violation of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). Pursuant to the consent decree that Sears approved, the company will overhaul its workers' compensation policies, train staff to ensure that employees adhere closely to stipulations of ...

/**/ Sears Holdings Corporation (Sears and Kmart) is looking for a Senior Paralegal to work in its Hoffman Estates, Illinois headquarters. Job Description Assist business client in responding to discovery Conducts research and analysis on factual issues ... this link), a woman's lingerie-wearing football team in the aptly named Lingerie Football League. The team plays its games in the Sears Centre. I know, if you're like me and are all "what-de-heck-is-lingerie-football?", The Cheap Seats provides ...

... ] Dreher added that the Sears chairman could be moving to take the company private and use the cash generated by Sears Holdings' retail operation to finance ESL Investments. Mr. Dreher estimates the liquidation value of Sears Holdings to ... still a 600% increase since your original post." Funny that Morgenson, who is always complaining about the failure of today's corporate management to deliver value to shareholders, chooses to complain as well about a private equity guy who tried mightily to do ...

"Sears Holdings Management Corporation - owned by Sears, Roebuck and Company and Kmart Management Corporation - has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to disclose adequately the scope of consumers' personal information it collected via a downloadable software application. According to the FTC's administrative complaint, Sears represented to consumers that the software would track their "online browsing." The FTC charges that the software would also monitor ...

... in a privacy policy were not sufficient. On June 4, the FTC reported a proposed settlement with Sears Holding Management Corporation of a complaint that Sears had failed to meaningfully disclose to customers the extent of the information it was collecting through its ... information, use of web-based email and instant messaging services." The FTC's proposed settlement with Sears has surprised a lot of companies who previously thought that the FTC supported disclosures made in privacy policies. These ...

... company are part of a diversified portfolio of securities are indifferent to the fortunes of a particular stock in their portfolio. But corporate managers--the shareholders' imperfect agents-are not indifferent to bankruptcy and so they are unwilling to bet their ... particularly unbecoming of a judicial panel to use a published opinion to gratuitously vilify half the profession. It calls the holding's very integrity into question. Plaintiff-side class action attorneys constantly hear this refrain- ...

... link between the failures of Merrill Lynch, AIG and Lehman and their large corporate stock buybacks. "3 Companies facing cash crunch oblivion. A bankruptcy, an desperation ... spiral of once mighty retail giant Sears Roebuck now known as Sears Holding Corporation(also including Kmart). Sears has been on a brutal financial no ... , massive markdowns and "red light" clearance gimmicks and real estate holdings worth a fraction of their original value, the correlation certainly strengthens. Is SHLD going ...

... got procedures in place for updating an employee's gender and first name in corporate records and to comply with medical privacy rules. And, Keisling said, companies ... issues." Keisling said she expects more employers to follow the example set by corporate America and not Largo. "Employers are beginning to realize that people who are courageous enough ... Group, Gap, Nordstrom, Staples, Walgreens Co. and Sears Holding Corp. , which owns both Sears and Kmart department stores. •Anheuser-Busch Cos., ...

... New York-based consulting firm that has advised many of the world's biggest corporations, according to records in at least six civil court cases. State Farm, based in ... settlements and stalling court proceedings. By postponing payments, insurance companies can hold money longer and make more on their investments-- and often wear down ... company hired McKinsey in 1992 after the insurer was spun off from what's now Sears Holdings Corp. of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, says David Berardinelli, a Santa Fe, ...

... New York-based consulting firm that has advised many of the world's biggest corporations, according to records in at least six civil court cases. State Farm, based in ... settlements and stalling court proceedings. By postponing payments, insurance companies can hold money longer and make more on their investments-- and often wear down ... company hired McKinsey in 1992 after the insurer was spun off from what's now Sears Holdings Corp. of Hoffman Estates, Illinois, says David Berardinelli, a Santa Fe, ...