WYOMING: Businesses prepare for mass illness - (Casper Star-Tribune)
September 7, 2007 – 8:31 pmIf ever a pandemic flu hits Wyoming, knocking out perhaps 40 percent of a typical company’s work force, service industry operators will, according to this story, be prepared from experience.
Pat Sweeney, owner of the Parkway Plaza, Poor Boys Steakhouse, the Wonder Bar and Old Town Fun Park was quoted as telling business owners, health professionals and national experts during a Thursday conference chronicling the effect of a pandemic flu on the business world that, “We’d like to employ about 300 amongst our businesses.”
The story says that as it is, he’s operating at about 20 to 25 percent below what is considered full staff at the hotel and convention center — not that different from many Wyoming businesses during this latest boom.
Steve Aldrich, founder and president of Bio Economic Research Associates, was quoted as saying that educating employees is the “single most important thing you can do” including making sure that […]
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