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Southern California Garment Workers Owed Millions In Unpaid Wages
14/11/2014 Comments Off on Southern California Garment Workers Owed Millions In Unpaid Wages
Widespread labor violations by Southern California apparel manufacturing industry employers costs garment workers millions of dollars a year in unpaid wages, the U.S. Labor Department reports. Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Labor Department conducted 221 investigations this year of garment industry employers, mostly in and around Los Angeles. Investigators found more than $3 […]
Continue reading …Fatal Wichita Fall Highlights Communication Tower Worksite Dangers
09/05/2014 Comments Off on Fatal Wichita Fall Highlights Communication Tower Worksite Dangers
These days there are fewer linemen and more communications tower technicians in Wichita. Both jobs can be very hazardous. On Nov. 23, 2013, 25-year-old Douglas Klein, a worker performing maintenance, fell about 50 feet to his death while descending from a communications tower at work site in Wichita, Kan. He was one of 13 workers who […]
Continue reading …How The DOL Let Companies Get Away With Unpaid Internships
05/05/2014 Comments Off on How The DOL Let Companies Get Away With Unpaid Internships
By Kara Brandeisky and Jeremy B. Merrill, ProPublica- Two years after the U.S. Department of Labor announced its intent to crack down on unpaid internships, a federal investigator called a final meeting with the biggest offender the agency had found: an outdoors magazine based in Santa Fe, N.M. The investigator reported interns at Outside magazine had […]
Continue reading …U.S. Lags World In Temporary Worker Protections
03/05/2014 Comments Off on U.S. Lags World In Temporary Worker Protections
By Michael Grabell ProPublica– For nearly six years, Limber Herrera has toiled as a temporary worker doing the same work for the same company in Mira Loma, Calif. About 40 hours a week, he unloads shipping containers for NFI2014one of the largest freight distribution firms in America2014moving goods that will eventually stock the shelves of […]
Continue reading …Farm Workers Fired For Fleeing California Wildfire Get Jobs Back
10/05/2013 Comments Off on Farm Workers Fired For Fleeing California Wildfire Get Jobs Back
By ANNIE-ROSE STRASSER, ThinkProgress — Fifteen farm workers have won back their right to work after being fired last week for fleeing wildfire smoke. The workers, who pick strawberries for Crisalida Farms in Oxnard, California, were warned by their foreman that they’d lose their jobs if they left. But the raining ash and blowing smoke caused by the fast-burning […]
Continue reading …Are You Unemployed Over 55? Grey Haired And 55 Or Older Need Not Apply
10/05/2013 Comments Off on Are You Unemployed Over 55? Grey Haired And 55 Or Older Need Not Apply
By R.W. GREENE— To judge from unemployment rates, you might think it’s not too hard to pull off the trick of finding a job while having grey hair and being 55 or older. After all, the unemployment rate last year for people aged 55 and older stood at 6%. That number has even improved slightly […]
Continue reading …No Just-Cause: In 49 Of 50 U.S. States You Can Be Fired For Any Reason
09/05/2013 Comments Off on No Just-Cause: In 49 Of 50 U.S. States You Can Be Fired For Any Reason
By JAKE BLUMGART, AlterNet— Don’t get too comfy at your desk, your job might not be as secure as you think. Anecdotal reports from labor lawyers and a few polls show that most Americans believe their bosses must have a good reason to kick them to the curb. We labor under the illusion of what […]
Continue reading …Cable Guys Cheated Out Of Overtime, DOL Wins $1Million In Back Wages
09/05/2013 Comments Off on Cable Guys Cheated Out Of Overtime, DOL Wins $1Million In Back Wages
Bowlin Group got caught cheating 196 employees working as cable installers out of overtime pay by illegally classifying them as independent contractors. Now Bowlin, based in Walton, Ky., must pay the employees more than $1 million in back wages and damages, according to the term of a U.S. Department of Labor federal court order. The […]
Continue reading …Bizarre Boss Requests – 5 Ways To Say No And Not Get Fired
08/05/2013 Comments Off on Bizarre Boss Requests – 5 Ways To Say No And Not Get Fired
By VICKIE ELMER— Bosses’ requests can be bizarre – and occasionally illegal. Take for example, the boss who asked a co-worker to spy on senior management. Or the one who asked to have her dog’s toenails clipped. Then there’s the one who asked a colleague to serve as a surrogate mother for his child. All […]
Continue reading …Industrial Services Staffing Agency Hutco Pays $2million In Back Wages
07/05/2013 Comments Off on Industrial Services Staffing Agency Hutco Pays $2million In Back Wages
Hutco Inc., a major industrial services employment agency, has agreed to pay $1,916,850 in back wages to 2,267 employees at work sites throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Hutco Inc. is a labor services company providing skilled and unskilled labor to companies throughout the nation in industries including ship construction, oil field fabrication, warehousing and distribution, […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill