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Older Workers Delay Retirement, No End In Sight For Many
The Conference Board—Even as stock prices rise, unemployment drops, and overall recovery takes hold, more U.S. workers than ever are delaying retirement, according to a report by The Conference Board, Trapped on the Worker Treadmill? “It’s disconcerting that the two years in which the U.S. economy seemed to finally, if fitfully, turn the corner also left […]
Hiring On Hold At Many Small Businesses, Cutting More Than Hiring
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Hiring On Hold At Many Small Businesses, Cutting More Than Hiring
Small business isn’t hiring: That’s one reason the U.S. employment situation isn’t improving. Nobody wants to hire new employees if they don’t have to. Small business owners lack the confidence the current state of the economy to take on new employees. Many businesses are also operating with fewer employees, having been forced to do so in […]
Continue reading …PBGC Bails Out Hawker Beechcraft Pension Plans
31/01/2013 Comments Off on PBGC Bails Out Hawker Beechcraft Pension Plans
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) will assume benefit payments for more than 9,500 workers and retirees from two of Hawker Beechcraft, Inc.’s pension plans under a bankruptcy court agreement announced Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. The settlement also includes $2.5 million to those salaried retirees whose benefits exceed those paid by PBGC under rules set […]
Continue reading …Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade Of The American Middle Class
31/01/2013 Comments Off on Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier: The Lost Decade Of The American Middle Class
It’s been a tough decade for America’s middle class, those middle-income workers who shoulder most of the burden for keeping the economy humming by reliably earning and consuming. These stark assessments are based on findings from an August 2012 Pew Research Center survey that included 1,287 adults who describe themselves as middle class. Similar shares of whites […]
Continue reading …Class of ’12: The Facebook Generation’s Social Media Job Search
23/01/2013 Comments Off on Class of ’12: The Facebook Generation’s Social Media Job Search
This probably comes as no surprise: New college graduates are embracing social media as a job search tool, according to a new study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). A generation that grew up with Facebook and instant messaging is now graduating from college and looking for work — using social […]
Continue reading …Wages Shrink Worldwide, Workers Getting A Smaller Slice Of The Pie
04/01/2013 Comments Off on Wages Shrink Worldwide, Workers Getting A Smaller Slice Of The PieILO News– Workers’ share of national income has been shrinking in most countries, causing public dissatisfaction and increasing the risk of social unrest, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has said in a new report. “It has affected perceptions of what is fair, particularly given the huge payments some company executives have been getting,” said Patrick Belser, […]
Continue reading …Wage Growth Slows Globally Despite Increases In Emerging Nations
04/01/2013 Comments Off on Wage Growth Slows Globally Despite Increases In Emerging Nations
ILO News– Wage growth remains far below pre-financial crisis levels globally and has fallen into the red in developed countries, despite continuing increases in emerging economies, according to an International Labour Organization (ILO) report. Global monthly wages* grew by 1.2% in 2011, down from 3% in 2007 and 2.1% in 2010, the Global Wage Report 2012/13 says. […]
Continue reading …NLRB Decides 341 Cases In Fiscal 2012, Including Some Of Its Oldest
16/10/2012 Comments Off on NLRB Decides 341 Cases In Fiscal 2012, Including Some Of Its Oldest
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued decisions in 341 cases during fiscal 2012, 1 Oct. 2011 through 30 Sept. 2012, tackling many of its oldest cases. The NLRB cut the median age of pending cases in half, resolving nine of the 10 oldest cases it faced at the start 2012, . The age of pending cases dropped […]
Continue reading …Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week – 14 – 20 October 2012
14/10/2012 Comments Off on Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week – 14 – 20 October 2012
Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week, 14 – 20 October 2012. Workplace bullying is a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction that jeopardizes your health, your career, the job you once loved. Workplace bullying is a non-physical, non-homicidal form of violence. Because it is abusive it causes both emotional and stress-related physical harm. This event is organized […]
Continue reading …US Public More Positive About The Economy, Views Of Job News Improve
12/10/2012 Comments Off on US Public More Positive About The Economy, Views Of Job News Improve
From the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press— Americans are hearing less negative news about the nation’s economy than they were just a month ago. Perceptions of news about other economic sectors – notably, the job situation – have improved as well. Most Americans continue to hear a mix of good and […]
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