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Corporate Sustainability Programs Held Steady, SHRM Survey
A new survey from Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows that increased employee morale, a better public image, and efficiency top the reasons why organizations should consider a corporate sustainability program. The survey shows that 53% of organizations said their sustainability initiatives improved employee morale. Slightly more than half—51%—said sustainability programs created a stronger public […]
Spending Cuts For Most Programs Have Little Support, Sequester Looms
25/02/2013 Comments Off on Spending Cuts For Most Programs Have Little Support, Sequester Looms
Pew Center for the People and the Press– As the March 1 deadline for a possible budget sequester approaches, a new national survey finds limited public support for reducing spending for a range of specific programs, including defense, entitlements, education and health care. For 18 of 19 programs tested, majorities want either to increase spending […]
Continue reading …OSHA Fines Bacardi $192,000 After Temp Worker Killed On First Day
14/02/2013 Comments Off on OSHA Fines Bacardi $192,000 After Temp Worker Killed On First Day
Lawrence Daquan “Day” Davis’ first day as a temp worker at Bacardi Bottling Corp. in Jacksonville, Fla., turned out to be his last day on Earth. Davis, 21, was crushed to death by a palletizer machine at the Jacksonville Bacardi facility in August 2012. Davis was cleaning glass from under the hoist of a palletizing […]
Continue reading …North Carolina Law Shields Walmart In Greeter Death Suit
07/02/2013 Comments Off on North Carolina Law Shields Walmart In Greeter Death Suit
For Rochelle Boswell Pender working as a Walmart store greeter gave her reason to live. It turned out to be a killer job. Pender, 71, died in 2011 after a Walmart loss-control employee and an alleged shoplifter fleeing the store collided with her. Pender was seriously hurt, dying of a head injury. Now a North […]
Continue reading …Resumes: Survey Reveals Forbidden Words & Phrases For 2013
05/02/2013 Comments Off on Resumes: Survey Reveals Forbidden Words & Phrases For 2013
Think that describing yourself on your resumes as a “highly qualified” “self-starter” who is a “creative” “problem solver” will help you stand out on the job hunt? Think again. According to a new OfficeTeam survey, these are among the most overused terms on resumes. These worn out words and phrases can kill your chances with hiring managers and […]
Continue reading …Companies Avoid OSHA Penalties After Workplace Deaths
02/01/2013 Comments Off on Companies Avoid OSHA Penalties After Workplace DeathsBy CHRIS HAMBY, The Center For Public Integrity— The temperature outside barely reached double digits on the morning of Jan. 15, 2009, and, inside the Crucible Specialty Metals steel mill in Syracuse, N.Y., it was bitterly cold. Ice coated the equipment, forcing employees to use torches to free the machines so they could start their […]
Continue reading …OSHA, Airline Ground Safety Panel Renew Ground Crew Safety Alliance
13/10/2012 Comments Off on OSHA, Airline Ground Safety Panel Renew Ground Crew Safety Alliance
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) renewed its alliance with the Airline Ground Safety Panel to address hazards and worker injuries relating to operating aviation ground support equipment. The Airline Ground Safety Panel is a joint industry and labor partnership. The panel consists of 11 airline companies and three unions representing 350,000 workers, representing […]
Continue reading …Eight Job Options With Great Pay And Secure Futures
12/10/2012 Comments Off on Eight Job Options With Great Pay And Secure Futures
By ALIDA MOORE, Payscale.com— As long as you’re going to work, you might as well seek a high-paying job. But can you be sure your most lucrative job option will still be around to pay you that big salary five or 10 years from now? It’s more likely to be if job opportunities in your […]
Continue reading …OSHA: Inspections May Have Prevented Fatal New York Subway Worksite Accident
09/10/2012 Comments Off on OSHA: Inspections May Have Prevented Fatal New York Subway Worksite Accident
Had Yonkers Contracting Co. Inc. conducted the proper safety inspections of large boom crane a New York construction worker would be alive today, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA cited Yonkers Contracting for 10 alleged serious violations of workplace safety in connection with the 3 April 2012 death of a worker […]
Continue reading …Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
Feel like you and a lot of people you know are stuck in bad jobs? If you’re employed in the United States, chances are about one-in-four that you have a bad job, according to a new study. If misery loves company then people with bad jobs have plenty. Almost one-fourth of U.S. workers are in […]
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