On the Job: Best bosses help employees gain new skills by Anita Bruzzese The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT What makes a good boss? The question was posed on Twitter recently, and here are some of the responses: • “A good boss treats employees with respect, works as hard as everyone else, solves problems quickly and fairly,” Pop Culture Nerd says. • “A good boss listens!” Matt Eventoff tweets. • A good boss “mentors her [or his] employees” while providing ongoing opportunities for professional development, Jeana Harrington says. Those seem like reasonable requests, but too many bosses fall short. The... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Small Talk: Businesses may get sticker shock on health care by Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press Published May 4, 2013 01:01AM MDT Small-business owners may be experiencing sticker shock now that insurers are revealing the rates they want to charge under the new health care law. So far, in Rhode Island, insurers are requesting premium increases of up to 14 percent for small-business coverage when the Affordable Care Act is fully effective Jan. 1. They’re also in double digits in Maryland. Small businesses, especially those that are required, for the first time, to start providing coverage under the Affordable Care Act hav... Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Solid job gains in April ease fears about economy the Associated Press Published May 3, 2013 10:00PM MDT Washington • The U.S. economy showed last month why it remains the envy of industrialized nations: In the face of tax increases and federal spending cuts, employers added a solid 165,000 jobs in April — and far more in February and March than anyone thought. The hiring in April drove down the unemployment rate to a four-year low of 7.5 percent and sent a reassuring sign that the U.S. job market is improving. The economy is benefiting from a resurgent housing market, rising consumer confidence an... Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Tradewinds — Companies on the go, people on the move the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT David Steed has joined the Salt Lake City office of MWH Global, a strategic consulting, environmental and engineering firm. He will lead the North American natural resources development permitting practice for MWH. Security Service Federal Credit Union has announced Greg Reed has been promoted to vice president of member service for its Mountain West region. He will be responsible for operations, community initiatives and business development. He joined the credit union in 2011 as assistant vi... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Zions Bank semifinalist for Guard and Reserve Award the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Zions Bank is a semifinalist for the highest honor the Defense Department gives to employers who support their employees in the National Guard and Reserve. Zions was chosen by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a committee of the department. Zions is one of 138 semifinalists selected for the Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award from 2,899 employers nominated by a Guard or Reserve employee. Semifinalists typically support Guard and Reserve employees by establishing vet... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Should Utah ban smoking in company cars? the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Tired of sharing a company car with someone who smokes? Now is your chance to weigh in on a proposed Utah Department of Health rule change to ban smoking in company vehicles, such as freight liners, delivery trucks and taxis. The change is meant to clarify that the state’s Indoor Clean Air Act applies to all work places, whether that happens to be an office or a truck, said Steve Hadden with the state’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Program. Currently, smoking is permitted in company vehicles a... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

3 more Cafe Rio Utah locations will be open on Sundays the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Beginning this Sunday, Cafe Rio Mexican Grill will begin opening three more of its Utah locations on Sundays. Restaurants in Taylorsville, Hunter and American Fork will operate from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Locations in Tooele, Spanish Fork, Logan, Vernal and Park City already are open on Sundays, as are all Cafe Rio Mexican Grills outside of Utah. “We’re excited to open three [more] of our Utah locations,” said Bob Baker, president and CFO of Cafe Rio Mexican Grill. “We’ve received this request from ... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Business news briefs staff And News Services Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Miller Group makes donations Larry H. Miller Charities contributed $7,500 to YWCA Salt Lake City for children’s intervention and advocacy programs; $3,500 to Art Access, Salt Lake City, for its Integrated Arts in Utah Schools program; $5,000 to Cause for Hope, South Jordan; $500 to the Murray Exchange Club; $7,500 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Brigham City; $4,000 to Two Rivers High School, Ogden; $5,000 to Westmore Elementary, Orem; and $5,000 to Mountainlands Health Centers, Provo. New McDo... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Kobe Bryant, mom at odds over auction of mementos by Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Trenton, N.J. • Kobe Bryant is in a court battle to try to keep his mother from auctioning off mementos from his high school days in Pennsylvania and his early years with the Los Angeles Lakers. A New Jersey auction house filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Camden this week for the right to sell the items after the NBA star’s lawyers wrote the firm telling it to cancel a planned June auction. The disagreement is a high-value, high-profile version of a question many families face. Can Mom g... Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Looming Kennecott layoffs leave townsfolk uneasy by Mike Gorrell The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Kennecott’s unions floated an early retirement proposal to the company on Friday, hoping the departures of perhaps 200 older workers might lessen the number of layoffs Kennecott makes later this month. As those negotiations took place, people in Magna and Copperton said they fear that the massive landslide in the Bingham Canyon Mine will cause economic hardship for many Utahns, but are reasonably confident Kennecott is doing all it can to restore full production and make the impending layoff a s... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Watercooler: Finding that first job after college mcclatchy Newspapers Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Recent college graduates entering the job market can face a variety of challenges, especially in a soft economy, and can use any edge afforded to them when jumping into the competition. The Web is a good place to pick up a few tips. Here are some places to start: Campus Explorer • Breaks down the grad job search into a planning timeline, at http://bit.ly/12kNxaB. Fastweb • Provides articles on a variety of new grad job-search subjects, at http://mnstr.me/15XxEei. JobDiagnosis.com • Spotlights... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Photos: Former Deseret News building transformed into emergency dispatch headquarters the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT The International Academies of Emergency Dispatch held an official ribbon cutting and media tour of its downtown Salt Lake City headquarters Friday. Company founder Jeff Clawson and Jerry Overton, of IAED Board of Trustees, spoke at the ceremony.In June, the Utah-based company purchased the former Deseret News building at 30 E. 100 South from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In the months since, it has transformed six floors into offices, break rooms and meeting space for 110 of ... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Review: New Magellan GPS taps cloud computing and social media by Rich Jaroslovsky Bloomberg News Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT SAN FRANCISCO • Makers of portable global-positioning systems are caught in a squeeze. Once a luxury item, in-dash navigation is showing up in cheaper cars, while smartphone apps like Google Maps and Apple Maps are adding more nav-system-like features such as spoken- turn-by-turn directions. Mitac International, the maker of the Magellan line of GPS devices, is taking the if-you-can’t-beat-’em, join-’em approach. Its new $249 SmartGPS takes advantage of the Cloud and social media in an effort to... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Quick read: What it’s like to live without the Internet for a year by Karen Workman Digital First Media Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Quick read, where we break down long reads and the origination of emerging trends and discussion. We summarize and you decide whether to read in full. <freeform><script data-hide-title=”true” data-hide-byline=”true” data-hide-footnotes=”true” type=”text/javascript” src=”http://cdn.spundge.com/embed/stories/3282/”></script><noscript><h1>Quick read: What it's like to live without the Internet for a year</h1><h2>Quick read, where we break down long read... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Gun shows becoming traveling malls as they go beyond firearms by Michael S. Rosenwald The Washington Post Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT Vera Torres went to the Nation’s Gun Show in Chantilly, Va. last month looking for a handgun. She left with Amazing Wonder Tops. She found the impossible-to-wrinkle blouses at a table that also featured Native American necklaces, not far from a jeweler selling $7,500 timepieces, across from a table of high-powered rifles, around the corner from herbal aromatherapy heating pads and .45-caliber handguns and a pop-up DVD store whose categories included “WWII at Sea” and “Napoleonic.” Gun shows have... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

April jobs report: Unemployment rate drops slightly, economy adds 165,000 jobs by Ryan Teague Beckwith Digital First Media Published May 3, 2013 09:32PM MDT What you need to know about the April jobs report, released Friday. <freeform><script data-hide-title=”true” data-hide-byline=”true” data-hide-footnotes=”true” type=”text/javascript” src=”http://cdn.spundge.com/embed/stories/3281/”></script><noscript><h1>April jobs report: How to understand it</h1><h2>The American economy added 165,000 jobs in April, but the unemployment rate changed little, dropping to 7.5 percent. That's a drop of only 0.2 percent ... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Dow Jones industrial average crosses 15,000 for first time by Bernard Condon Ap Business Writer Published May 3, 2013 05:59PM MDT NEW YORK • A big gain in the job market is pushing the stock market past new milestones. The Dow Jones industrial average crossed 15,000 for the first time early Friday, and the Standard and Poor’s 500 index, a broader market measure, broke through 1,600. The Dow was up 136 points to 14,967, an increase of 0.9 percent, as of 3:11 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The S&P 500 index surged 16 points, or 1 percent, to 1,613. The driver was jobs. U.S. employers added 165,000 of them in April and more in F... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Tradewinds — Companies on the go, people on the move the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 05:59PM MDT Spectrum Engineers has announced Pat Garey joined the firm as a principal electrical engineer. He has more than 22 years of experience in consulting, design and in the engineering of education, health care, commercial, institutional, governmental, municipal and industrial projects. Blake Hamilton with the law firm of Stirba P.C. has been named the 2013 Young Lawyer of the Year by the Utah State Bar Young Lawyers Division. BHB Engineers has promoted Nathan Miller and Marty Olson to associate... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Text messaging declines as other options emerge by Peter Svensson The Associated Press Published May 3, 2013 05:59PM MDT New York • Americans are saying CUL8TR to text messaging, a wireless industry group says, as Internet-based applications such as Apple’s Messages are starting to take over from what was once a cash cow for phone companies. CTIA — The Wireless Association said Thursday that Americans sent 2.2 trillion text messages last year, down 5 percent from 2011. That’s still 19 text messages per person per day. Text messages vaulted into the U.S. mainstream in 2007, despite often costing 10 cents each. Cost... Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Provo High team wins Ford/AAA vehicle repair competition the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 3, 2013 05:59PM MDT Two Provo High School students on Thursday won an automobile diagnosis and repair contest, and will move on to a national competition in Michigan in June. Parker Thomas and Jimmy Hicken defeated two-person student teams from nine other Utah high schools to take first place in the annual Ford/AAA Auto Skills Contest, which offers millions of dollars in scholarships nationwide. Thomas and Hicken, and instructor Seth Mcvea, will travel to Ford Motor Co.’s headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., to compet... Copyright 2013 The Salt Lake Tribune. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.