Business

Bruce Irwin, M.D. Named Among Top CEOs of 2019 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (PRWEB) December 11, 2019 Bruce Irwin, M.D., CEO and founder of American Family Care (AFC), the nation’s leading provider of urgent care and accessible primary care, is the winner of a 2019 CEO Award from the Birmingham Business Journal (BBJ). Irwin is recognized for his leadership of a company that has more than 150 employees. “I hold this award very close to my heart,” explains Dr. Irwin. “Birmingham is not only my home but also home to AFC’s national headquarters. I opened the first AFC clinic in Hoover more than 35 years ago. Today our network of physicians provides care to families across the country, based on the concept I created.” AFC has 63 corporate-owned clinics, 18 in Birmingham, as well as 153 franchisee-owned clinics in 22 states. All AFC clinics are designed, equipped and staffed to provide accessible primary care, urgent care and minor emergency treatment. Each clinic … [Read more...] about American Family Founder Honored by Birmingham Business Journal

Xian Min, who became disabled after coming down with polio at the age of 1, started her industrial drone business in Chongqing when she was 48, after years of exploration in the logistics and electromechanical equipment industry. Xian's family was once worried about the industrial risk and her physical condition. However, Xian gave it a try and devoted herself to relevant study and research, and formed a team with her husband to develop industrial drones. At present, Xian leads her team to launch a variety of industrial drones, including products for river inspection, aerial mapping, agricultural plant protection, pest control and emergency rescue. She also gets involved in public welfare and provides services to disabled entrepreneurs for free. "I long for running and flying, though I can't walk easily, and the drone business fulfilled my flying dream," Xian said. … [Read more...] about Drone business lets dreams take flight for disabled woman

Chu Van An, deputy CEO of Minh Phu Seafood, speaking at a recent forum to discuss the proposal, said during the peak season his company receives a lot of orders and needs to increase workers’ overtime hours. This is not something that businesses are keen on since they have to pay 1.5-3 times the normal salary for overtime hours, but find it inescapable. Other export businesses also voiced support for the proposal by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to extend the overtime limit for from 300 hours a year to 400. Phan Thanh Xuan of the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association said that since workers in the leather sector are paid by output, the more they work, the higher their salary is. "The relationship between an employer and an employee is symbiotic," and an increase in work time would raise a business’ competitiveness, she added. Vu Tien Loc, chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), which represents businesses, said over … [Read more...] about Businesses support overtime cap increase for workers

PANAMA CITY - The China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been great for business and helped improve the business environment, head of Uruguay's largest dairy cooperative has said. "We are convinced that the Belt and Road Initiative has been very positive, because it has created a spectacular climate" for doing business, said Jose Noel Alpuin, director general of Uruguay's national milk producers cooperative (Conaprole), on the sidelines of the 13th China-Latin America and the Caribbean Business Summit, a three-day event which opened in Panama City on Monday. Since 2018, when Uruguay officially joined the innovative scheme of the BRI designed to spur global growth through stepped-up trade, major Chinese corporations have shown greater confidence in Uruguayan exports, Alpuin told Xinhua. "We have received sizable Chinese companies that are interested in continuing to make progress in agreements, and everything indicates that we are going to multiply our exports," he said. … [Read more...] about China-proposed BRI great for business, says Uruguayan producer

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexican business leaders on Wednesday began poring over texts of a new stricter trade deal with the United States and Canada, looking for details of how more intrusive enforcement of labor rules in Mexico would affect their operations. Moises Kalach, a leader of the CCE business lobby, which represented Mexico’s private sector in the negotiation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that will replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said that businesses felt sidelined. “We would have liked to have been (in the negotiations) more ... to give our opinion more. This is the reality, we participated but not as much as we would have liked,” said Kalach. USMCA was signed more than a year ago to replace NAFTA, but Democrats controlling the U.S. House of Representatives insisted on major changes to labor and environmental enforcement before bringing it to a vote. In an unusual display of bipartisan and … [Read more...] about Mexican businesses focus on labor provisions as they pore over USMCA trade deal text