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There are all kinds of jobs and all kinds of ways to get killed on the job. Being mauled by a bear is one of them. Wildlife casting agency, Animals of Montana Inc., has been cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for safety violations after Benjamin Cloutier, a 24-year-old trainer, was mauled to […]
Continue reading …The federal government won a record $240 million settlement against a turkey producer that held 32 mentally disabled men in servitude while mentally and physically abusing them, some of them for more than 20 years. A Davenport, Iowa jury on May 1, 2013, awarded the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) damages totaling $240 million […]
Continue reading …The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced an initiative to further protect temporary employees from workplace hazards. The announcement was made during a program at the department’s headquarters marking Workers’ Memorial Day — an annual observance to honor workers who have died on the job and renew a commitment to […]
Continue reading …The so-called shortage of U.S. workers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields may be creation of multi-national companies that want to keep wages low. Contrary to many industry claims, the study finds that U.S. colleges and universities provide an ample supply of highly qualified science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates. In new […]
Continue reading …Never mind is the issue of asylum for workers who are in the U.S. illegally. What the proposed immigration reform bill also does is allow outsourcers and large corporations to bring thousands more low-paid but highly skilled technical workers to the U.S. The so-called Senate “Gang of Eight”, S. 744, introduced the proposed comprehensive immigration […]
Continue reading …Here’s another reason the wage gap between men and women makes life more difficult: The cost of child care. Child care costs have nearly doubled in the last 25 years while the percentage of families paying for child care declined, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report Who’s Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring […]
Continue reading …When President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law in 1963, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to men. While women hold nearly half of today’s jobs, and their earnings account for a significant portion of the household income that sustains the financial wellbeing of their families, they […]
Continue reading …A must-read for Equal Pay Day, the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has published its annual pay gap analysis, The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap, complete with charts on the gender pay gap broken down by state, race/ethnicity, education, and age. The analysis shows that one of the widest pay gap disparities is […]
Continue reading …Equal Pay Day 2013 Events In The U.S., Overseas And Online From the National Committee on Pay Equity: The National Women’s Law Center is hosting a blog carnival all day on Equal Pay Day and a tweetchat at 1 pm (ET), with hashtag #TalkPay. This June will mark 50 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal […]
Continue reading …ILO News— Sisandra, 28, understands all too well the impact of sexual harassment in the workplace. As a telecommunications technician in Durban, South Africa, she works in a male-dominated environment. “My executive manager came to the office and asked for my number and I gave it to him. I did not ask him why he […]
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