Bon Secours Richmond All Store Employer Award

RICHMOND INDEX DOW INDUSTRIALS NASDAQ S&P 500 RUSSELL 2000 10-YR T-NOTE CRUDE OIL 329.58 –6.14 –1.83% 10868.12 –58.65 –0.54% 2402.29 –21.96 –0.91% 1165.87 –7.73 –0.66% 698.58 –11.12 –1.57% 3.54 –0.05 79.97 –2.77 –3.35% Business B3 Coming Sunday: How THURSDAY May 6, 2010 TimesDispatch.com is the job market for TimesDispatch.com Keyword: stocks college graduates? Richmond Times-Dispatch Business Editor: John Hoke (804) 649-6344 jhoke@timesdispatch.com Top local gainer James River Coal +1.36% . . . Biggest local decliner Star Sci –4.69% . . . Top S&P gainer Cliffs Natural +7.66% . . . Biggest S&P decliner Starwood Hotels –5.87% Greek debt woes worry U.S. investors They have been trying to down 60. It posted a two-day loss of 285 Crisis in Greece flight to safety,” says David Joy, chief market points. Three killed in Athens as protests grow strategist for Columbia Management, with escape the fallout by shifting The trigger is Greece, whose debt troubles increasingly violent. Page A4. $341 billion in assets. threaten the pace of a global economic recov- The stock market rally that took hold in from stocks to safer bonds ery. It’s a growing concern even though the ... March 2009 has gone a long way to get inves- country’s population is less than one-third of tors back on track, but many have been late The Associated Press California’s. ing — not just there, but here as well. to latch onto stocks. In the short-term, investors trying to es- A financial tremor in one corner of the But the overriding issue is the financial cape fallout from Greece have been shifting For 27 consecutive months, safety-minded globe can leave cracks in an investment port- health of Europe, and of an economic alliance toward the safest types of bonds, with the mutual fund investors have been plowing folio. It’s a painful lesson just as many U.S. in- on a continent that still matters despite faster trade-off of lower yields. What’s more, more money into bonds than into stocks, vestors are regaining their confidence. growth in places such as China and India. they’re exiting stocks, as seen in this week’s according to Morningstar Inc. The stock market remained volatile yester- Investors worry that a $144 billion aid sell-off. This year, investors have resumed a more day. After falling 112 points earlier in the package for Greece won’t be adequate to It’s like late 2008, on a smaller scale. day, the Dow Jones industrial average closed keep debt problems in Europe from spread- “You’re seeing something of a worldwide See GREECE, Page B5 Focus on the “This is the Oscars. We’re all about our people.” ECONOMY GARY L. RHOADS President of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College and presenter of the Employer All Star awards Reports show job market improving Private sector added 32,000 jobs in April, with more expected McClatchy Newspapers The job market is looking up, according to a report on the U.S. private sector released yesterday and a separate analysis by the Trea- sury Department’s top economist. Companies in the U.S. private sector added 32,000 jobs in April, according to the ADP employment report released yesterday. The report, coming two days be- fore the Labor Department reports on changes in the nation’s nonfarm payrolls for April, added to the sense that there would be a sizable increase in jobs. Economists are expecting a 185,000 increase in nonfarm pay- P. KEVIN MORLEY/TIMES-DISPATCH rolls. It would be the biggest gain in Andrew Rose, CEO of Elephant Auto Insurance (from left); Peter Bernard, CEO of Bon Secours Richmond Health System; and three years. Shawn Boyer, CEO of SnagAJob.com, accepted top Employer All Star awards for their respective firms yesterday. In testimony to the Joint Economic Area employers honored Committee of Con- gress yesterday, Alan Krueger, the assistant Treasury secretary for eco- Krueger nomic policy, said the labor market is beginning to show signs of “sustained improve- ment.” He said new data show that Bon Secours, SnagAJob.com, Elephant Auto Insurance win awards employment at large firms has in- BY PETER BACQUÉ “This is the Oscars,” Gary L. Rhoads, presi- work schedules and workplace leadership: creased in five of the past six Times-Dispatch Staff Writer dent of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community Col- BDO Seidman LLP, Bon Secours Richmond months — “a possible early sign of lege said in presenting the awards. “We’re all Health System, Capital One Financial Corp. durable job growth.” Looking for a great place to work? Try Bon about our people.” and VCU Health System. Vaco Richmond LLC The unemployment rate, how- received honorable mention. Secours Richmond Health System. The honors to the region’s top employers ever, could be difficult to bring Best Recruitment, Engagement and Re- Bon Secours walked off with three local were presented by the Society for Human Re- down for a while. tention Practices: Bon Secours Richmond Employer All Star awards yesterday, includ- source Management’s Richmond chapter, the Ahead of tomorrow’s report, Health System (large) and Sheltering Arms ing the top award — the Employer of Choice Greater Richmond Chamber and the Rich- economists surveyed by Market- Physical Rehabilitation Centers (medium). — for large organizations. mond Times-Dispatch. Watch predict, on average, that the Community Involvement: Pfizer (large), unemployment rate will have BREAKING SnagAJob.com also received Bon Secours also received the 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in SnagAJob.com (medium), and Austin Brock- stayed at 9.7 percent for the fourth NEWS the Employer of Choice honor in the midsize category for the sec- Workplace Flexibility and the Best Recruit- enbrough & Associates LLP (small). straight month in April. 5/5/10 11:34 AM Diversity Excellence: Federal Reserve Labor demand at small firms TimesDispatch.com ond year in a row, and it received ment, Engagement and Retention Practices an award in another category. Award for large organizations. Bank of Richmond (large) and Williams Mul- continues to be weak, Krueger said. len P.C. (medium). Krueger said it is too soon to Elephant Auto Insurance, which started op- The All Star Awards honored businesses erations in Henrico County last year, was for achievements and contributions to em- Workforce Development: VCU Health know whether the unemployment System (large), Sheltering Arms Physical Re- rate peaked at 10.1 percent last Oc- given the Employer of Choice award for small ployee development based on company size. companies. The 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Busi- habilitation Centers (medium), and Dominion tober. The unemployment rate Digital (small). could retest the cyclical high if The top award recognizes businesses and ness Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, workers who have dropped out of organizations that build world-class work which honors employers who score in the top • Contact Peter Bacqué at (804) 649-6813 or the labor force flood back in. forces. 20 percent in a national contest for flexible pbacque@timesdispatch.com. About 3.5 million Americans dropped out of the labor force during the recession, and many of those will compete for jobs with the 15 million who are officially classi- fied as unemployed. Payrolls are expected to expand in April and May with the Census Google, SBA team up to give Web tips Bureau hiring temporary workers it BY EMILY C. DOOLEY advantage of free listings on Goo- Washington cooking school Culi- needs to complete the door-to-door Times-Dispatch Staff Writer On the Web gle, Facebook and Twitter can be nAerie, embedded her website canvass of those who didn’t return helpful even if a business doesn’t with often-used keyword search their forms by mail. Google and the U.S. Small Busi- The small-business toolkit is at have a website. terms, she saw a 300 percent in- Employment in the service-pro- ness Administration have teamed www.google.com/help/sba. A free Google Places listing crease in traffic, she said. viding sector in April rose by up to help business owners har- available through Google Maps al- “It’s not a club,” Holt said. “It’s 50,000, and employment in factor- ness the power of the Web. lows a business to list hours of op- not illegal. It’s just something you ies rose 29,000. The goods-produc- The search-engine company how to measure Web analytics. eration, location, contact informa- do to find out how people search ing sector declined 24,000. and the federal agency released a “There’s an opportunity for tion and other items. for you.” Medium-size businesses saw em- “Tools for Online Success” pack- businesses to stand apart by mak- The toolkit also teaches busi- The idea behind the partner- ployment rise by 17,000. Large age yesterday that offers tips, ing themselves early adapters of ness owners how people search ship is to help small businesses firms added 14,000, and small firms training and video instructions to technology,” Google’s vice presi- for businesses and to load web- reach new markets. “We hope to had a slim 1,000 increase. help small-business owners in- dent of product management, sites with key terms so that they benefit lots and lots of small busi- Also yesterday, the Institute for crease their Web presence and at- John Hanke, said during a media show up in search listings. Meas- nesses . . . help them grow and Supply Management reported that tract business. event announcing the partnership uring who comes to a website, create jobs,” said SBA Adminis- the service sector held steady at The topics range from the sim- that was streamed online. from where and how long they trator Karen Mills. 55.4 in April from the prior month, ple, such as placing photos on a One-fifth of Google searches stay also is possible. • Contact Emily C. Dooley at (804) 649-6016 a level that implies ongoing growth. website, to the complex, including have to do with location. Taking After Susan Holt, owner of the or edooley@timesdispatch.com.

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