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American Heart: Volunteer and Save Your Job

Like many companies in these tough times, Navistar Diesel of Alabama, faced severe layoffs this January, but unlike other companies, it devised a way to keep employees on the payroll. Instead of laying off workers, plant manager Chuck Sibley kept them on, and loaned them out to local charities -- saving the jobs of 50 people, who would have been laid off. "We knew last July we were going to have a problem, that we're going to have too many people and we weren't going to have work for them in...Full Story
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