WHEN MOM TOLD YOU TO WASH YOUR HANDS, SHE WAS RIGHT
By Ron Cassinelli, New England Domestic News
If the idea of germs in your food, or on your carpets or your bedding just makes you sick, you’re not alone – and
it can.
But Beth Risinger, CEO of the non-profit International Executive Housekeepers Association, told New England Domestic News that the members of her
organization are trying to spread the word about halting the spread of germs.
The IEHA, as Risinger’s association is known, is an organization of 6,000 people in the public and private sector who manage hospitals, hotels and college
facilities. She says they learn how to really clean – and they learn that something as simple as...
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DON’T FORGET EMPLOYEE BACKGROUND CHECKS
By Jodi Tetelbaum, New England Domestic News
When you count the time and money it takes to recruit, interview, hire and train an employee, it only makes sense to
include pre-employment background screening. Don Graham, co-owner of Graham & Sheehan, a leader in background checking, says this type of screening
helps ensure candidate honesty and helps to weed out bad hires.
“It’s similar to drug testing,” says Graham. When candidates know that an employer will be running pre-employment
background checks, those candidates are much more likely to be truthful. And if they do have something undesirable to hide...
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TWO-IN-ONE TREND GROWING IN THE DOMESTIC INDUSTRY
Ron Cassinelli, New England Domestic News
Multi-tasking is moving into the domestic industry as nannies, whose primary duty is the care of children, and house
managers, whose primary duty is to ensure everything and everybody in the household is functioning properly, merge into a new classification – nanny-house
managers
The trend has grown in the last few years, as parents ask their nannies to take on other tasks.
Besides being in charge of child care, some nanny-managers also...
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NOTHING IS AS CERTAIN AS DEATH AND TAXES – EVEN PAYROLL TAXES FOR DOMESTIC HELP
In the “they’ve-done-it-again” category comes news of a California judge whose career was just derailed because she
did not pay taxes for her nanny.
Judge Glenda Sanders had the support of a bi-partisan panel for one of two openings on the U.S. District Court bench in Los Angeles but President Bush’s
administration did not submit her name to the Senate for confirmation. The reason? She ...
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