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Olive Garden Suffering From Bad PR After Anti-Obamacare Comments

Olive Garden Suffering From Bad PR After Anti-Obamacare Comments | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it
Darden Restaurants, Inc. — owner of Red Lobster and Olive Garden — is battling back negative press attention in light of its October announcement that the company will use Obamacare as a reason to shift to part-time employees.

 

On Tuesday, the company released a statement revising down its prediction of profits, which led to a huge drop in stocks. Darden attributed the change to the negative attention around its stance on Obamacare, and promised to deal with the health care reform law “in ways that work for our employees“...

 

[PR failjust keeps on ticking ~ Jeff]

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Best Buy, Worst Employee Communication | The PR Coach

Best Buy, Worst Employee Communication | The PR Coach | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

Electronics retailer Best Buy prides itself on its low prices and customer service. Unfortunately, that care didn’t extend to its employees with the closure of 15 stores and 900 employee layoffs in Canada.

 

Like many consumers, I wasn’t surprised to see Best Buy and Future Shop store closures.

 

Analysts expect Best Buy to close another 200 to 250 of its 1,056 US stores in 2013....

Jeff Domansky's insight:

Here's a case study in how NOT to handle communications around employee layoffs. Best Buy could've done much better.

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