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New York to Pass Sweeping Laws to Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers
New York to Pass Sweeping Laws to Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers A package of legislation from the City Council will set minimum pay and working conditions, placing New York at the forefront of regulating a multibillion-dollar industry. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/23/nyregion/nyc-food-delivery-workers.html
Angry Workers Storm Air France Meeting On Job Cuts
05/10/2015 Comments Off on Angry Workers Storm Air France Meeting On Job Cuts
By LIZ ALDERMAN Two executives had to flee a meeting at Air France offices near Charles de Gaulle Airport, where plans were discussed to cut about 2,900 jobs. Source: The New York Times – The New American Job Newsfeed
Continue reading …Gallup: U.S. Employee Engagement Improves
26/04/2013 Comments Off on Gallup: U.S. Employee Engagement Improves
By DANIELA YU, JIM HARTER, and SANGEETA AGRAWAL, Gallup— Thirty-six percent of managers and executives were “engaged” in their jobs in 2012 — meaning they are deeply involved in and enthusiastic about their work and actively contributing to their organization. This is the highest level of worker engagement across 12 different occupation types and is […]
Continue reading …Working From Home: Workers Work Harder, Better For The Environment
25/04/2013 Comments Off on Working From Home: Workers Work Harder, Better For The Environment
TeamViewer, a provider of remote control and online meetings software, announced the findings of its Telecommuting for Earth survey of 500 American adult office workers aged 18 and older, conducted online by uSamp in April 2013. The survey, aimed at determining the environmental impact of working from home, found that big majorities of Americans say […]
Continue reading …What Would Peter Drucker Say? Workers Pay For High Executive Salaries
12/04/2013 Comments Off on What Would Peter Drucker Say? Workers Pay For High Executive Salaries
By SAM PIZZIGATI— Peter Drucker, the analyst who founded modern management science, died in 2005 at age 95. When he died, business leaders worldwide hailed this Austrian-born American for his enormous contribution to enterprise efficiency and effectiveness. But Peter Drucker also cared deeply about enterprise morality. In his later years, he watched — and despaired — […]
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By JON MESSENGER and LAURA ADDATI— There’s been much debate about the merits – and demerits – of teleworking, since Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, issued a ban on working from home. According to a confidential internal memo leaked to the press, Mayer said speed, quality, communication and collaboration are often sacrificed when staff work remotely, […]
Continue reading …Hospitals Crack Down On Tirades By Angry Doctors
06/03/2013 Comments Off on Hospitals Crack Down On Tirades By Angry Doctors
By SANDRA G. BOODMAN, KHN — At a critical point in a complex abdominal operation, a surgeon was handed a device that didn’t work because it had been loaded incorrectly by a surgical technician. Furious that she couldn’t use it, the surgeon slammed it down, accidentally breaking the technician’s finger. “I felt pushed beyond my limits,” […]
Continue reading …Pro Bono: Accenture Trains 320,000 Worldwide In New Job Skills
22/02/2013 Comments Off on Pro Bono: Accenture Trains 320,000 Worldwide In New Job Skills
Management consulting firm Accenture says it has exceeded its Skills to Succeed program goal of by 2015 training 250,000 people worldwide in the skills necessary to get a job or build a business. Accenture says that thought is corporate citizenship initiative program, Skills to Succeed, it has already equipped more than 320,000 people with skills […]
Continue reading …Workers With Disabilities Add Business Benefits
19/02/2013 Comments Off on Workers With Disabilities Add Business Benefits
Companies that employ people with disabilities reap numerous benefits. Active recruiting and retention of employees with disabilities, including veterans, can both significantly expand the pool of talent and create new business opportunities, according to a new publication from The Conference Board. Among the poignant conclusions reported: Managers who have supervised an employee with a disability […]
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The National Federation of Nurses and the American Federation of Teachers, the largest union of professionals in the AFL-CIO, announced an affiliation agreement Thursday, Feb, 14, 2013. The agreement brings 34,000 registered nurses into teachers union, whose 1.5 million members include more than 48,000 nurses and thousands of other health care professionals. The affiliation agreement […]
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