Employee Handbook Changes

Effective April 1, 2007, CGH Insurance Group has revised it's employee handbook. The new handbooks will be distributed the first week of April. Please take time to read the new handbook as several additions/revisions from the prior handbook have been made. Some of the additions and revisions include:

• Vision Statement
• Our Mission
• Welcome Page
• Immigration Law Compliance
• Hiring of Relatives/Personal Relationships in the Workplace
• Categories of Employment – Full-time, Part-time or Temporary
• Personnel Records
• Vacation
  

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National Mining Association Forecast: The Outlook for Coal
in 2007

Production of coal is expected to set a record in 2007 for the third consecutive year, although the rate of increase will be lower than in the previous two years. As in previous years, production is driven by the demand for affordable and reliable coal supplies that generate more than 50 percent of all the electricity that will be used in the United States this year. Interest in coal as a base load fuel continues to be strong, and the National Mining Association (NMA) expects that, over the long term, coal production and use will frequently set annual records as coal is used not only for electricity but also finds its way into the commercial, industrial and transportation markets through gasification and liquefaction.

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