Companies see benefits in hiring chaplains to help employees with personal issues. By Rhymer Rigby, Financial Times July 30, 2007, From the Los Angeles Times, Copyright 2006 Los Angeles Times Employees at Tyson Foods Inc. experiencing the kind of problems they might not want to take to their managers have someone else they can approach — the corporate chaplain. "We have 125 chaplains, mostly part-time, working in the U.S., Canada and Mexico," says Alan Tyson, director of chaplaincy services. "They are out in the workplace providing a ministry of availability and presence."