by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 5, 2017 | News
The U.S. economy is improving and unemployment rates are nearly back to pre-recession levels. This economic upswing has intensified an already competitive labor market where job vacancies and the inability to hire quickly can have negative business...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 5, 2017 | News
Rhoda Pohina, a former assistant manager, was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for stealing more than $170,000 from the $14.3 million Harrison District No. 2 Federal Credit Union in Colorado Springs, according to the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 4, 2017 | News
A U.S. District Court Judge in New York dismissed an employment discrimination lawsuit Tuesday brought by a former CEO who claimed a credit union allegedly didn’t hire him because he had Crohn’s disease. Sean Jelen claimed in his civil lawsuit that the...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 4, 2017 | News
More than 80 of Puerto Rico’s island chartered and insured credit unions—known as cooperativas—are now operating during reduced hours in order to conserve fuel for their generators, José Julián Ramírez Ruiz, executive director of...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 3, 2017 | News
Legislation to avert future data breaches like the one at Equifax Inc. will fall short because none can fully prevent human error, a U.S. congressman told the company’s former top executive. “You can’t fix stupid,” Representative Greg Walden,...
by GrafWebCUSO | Oct 3, 2017 | News
The NCUA last week banned two tellers, one who helped plan two robberies of a Texas credit union and another who stole money from accounts of elderly members at a credit union in Virginia. Desire Valverde, 23, a former teller of the $254 million Education Credit Union...