West hiring in Niles


West hiring in Niles

NILES

West Corp., a technology-enabled communication service, is hosting a weeklong career fair to hire for 200 customer-care associate positions. The career fair will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday until Oct. 10 at 5185 Youngstown Warren Road in Niles.

These positions focus on providing superior inbound customer service related to billing, payments and general customer inquiries. Applicants are required to have intermediate-level computer skills. Six months of customer-service experience and a high-school diploma or GED also are required.

Customer-care associates start at $10.50 per hour plus incentives.

Business breakfast in Columbiana

COLUMBIANA

The Columbiana Area Chamber of Commerce will host a Business Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 31 in the Dutch Haus Restaurant.

Larry Kosiba, executive director of the Sustainable Opportunity Development Center, will present an interactive, Web-based economic-development tool designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the city assets as well as traffic counts for major routes through the city of Columbiana. This tool will be available to be used by current businesses and potential developers interested in Columbiana.

Chamber members pay $10 per person, and nonmembers pay $15 per person. Reservations are required. Please call the Chamber office at 330-482-3822.

Facebook apologizes to drag queens

NEW YORK

Facebook is apologizing to drag queens and the transgender community for deleting accounts that used drag names such as Lil Miss Hot Mess rather than legal names such as Bob Smith.

The world’s biggest online social network caught heat recently when it deleted several hundred accounts belonging to self-described drag queens, other performers and members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Facebook long has required its users to go by their “real names” on the site for security purposes, to stand out from other social networks and so it can better target advertising to people. Now, the company says the spirit of its policy doesn’t mean a person’s legal name but “the authentic name they use in real life.”

Though the real-names policy isn’t changing, the way Facebook enforces it might.

Coca-Cola revises executive-pay plan

NEW YORK

Coca-Cola is curtailing its pay plan for executives after shareholders including Warren Buffett called it excessive.

The world’s largest beverage maker said Wednesday its long-term incentive program now will distribute the company’s shares to a smaller group of executives, while the rest will be rewarded with cash bonuses instead.

That will mean the total shares authorized to be awarded under the plan will last longer. In addition, Coke said the mix of long-term equity awards will be adjusted to be more heavily weighted to performance shares, rather than stock options.

Vindicator staff/wire reports

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