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Unpaid Furloughs Instead of Pink Slips

Unpaid Furloughs Instead of Pink Slips

At the quarterly faculty/staff assembly at Stillman College last August, several employees expressed concern about potential layoffs. “I said I would do whatever was necessary to ensure that everyone could keep their jobs,” said Ernest McNealy, president of the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based HBCU, who thinks of his employees as family. After consulting with staff managers and human resources, McNealy concluded that furloughs were a better option than layoffs and decided that all of the non-teaching employees would have to participate, including himself.

The BE Smart Hackathon 2016 Begins!

The CEO and president of Black Enterprise, Earl “Butch” Graves Jr., welcomed the students this morning after breakfast. “We are connecting black talent to Silicon Valley,” he said. “We’ve doubled the number of students and schools from last year to show tech recruiters that black talent is available for them to hire.” Graves described how technology has entered just about every industry, and how these students are smart to take advantage of tech and networking opportunities like the BE Smart Hackathon.

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