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Nurses Fighting State By State For Minimum Staffing Laws
25/04/2013 Comments Off on Nurses Fighting State By State For Minimum Staffing Laws
By DAVID SCHULTZ, KHN— How many nurses does it take to run a hospital? Legislatures in at least seven states and the District of Columbia are trying to answer that question as they debate bills that would require hospitals to have a minimum number of nurses on staff at all times. So far, only one state […]
Continue reading …Ooops! Did A Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?
21/04/2013 Comments Off on Ooops! Did A Spreadsheet Error Cost You Your Job?
By DEAN BAKER— Did an Excel error cost you your job? This is what people around the world should be asking after researchers at the University of Massachusetts uncovered a serious calculation mistake. The mistake was in an enormously influential paper by Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff, two prominent economists, which purports to show that high levels […]
Continue reading …Global Pay Trends: Are Wages Converging World Wide?
19/04/2013 Comments Off on Global Pay Trends: Are Wages Converging World Wide?
By Philippe Egger, Director, ILO Bureau of Programming and Management– Unlike several other disciplines, economics is far from being an exact science. It is often hard to find clear answers about basic economic facts and trends. Take wages, for instance. Half of all employed people rely on wages for a living. These wages tend to reflect […]
Continue reading …NYC Fast-Food Workers Fight Back Against Super-Sized Corporations
17/04/2013 Comments Off on NYC Fast-Food Workers Fight Back Against Super-Sized Corporations
By PETER RUGH, Waging Nonviolence— Tianna Smalls had planned on working Thursday, April 4, 2013, but her colleagues convinced her otherwise. “‘You’re either with us, or you’re for Wendy’s,’” Smalls remembers her co-workers telling her. Her mother also weighed in Thursday morning as Smalls was heading to work at the franchise in downtown Brooklyn. “She said, […]
Continue reading …Financial Co-Operatives: Safe Bet In A Banking Crisis
12/04/2013 Comments Off on Financial Co-Operatives: Safe Bet In A Banking Crisis
ILO News– Financial co-operatives out-performed traditional investor-owned banks during the global financial crisis on almost every rating level, according to a new International Labour Organization study. The study, titled Resilience in a downturn: The power of financial co-operatives, says customer-owned banks were much more stable and more efficient than the big traditional banks. “Financial co-operative” is […]
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 — […]
Continue reading …What Employers Want – Top 10 Skills For Job Candidates
11/04/2013 Comments Off on What Employers Want – Top 10 Skills For Job Candidates
What makes an ideal job candidate? Of course, top candidates need to have the requisite major and GPA, and relevant work experience, but it’s their soft skills that make them ideal. In terms of the skills that differentiate candidates, employers responding to the National Association of Colleges and Employers’ Job Outlook 2013 say they want […]
Continue reading …Infographic: Number People Working At Home Increasing
11/04/2013 Comments Off on Infographic: Number People Working At Home Increasing
In 2010, 4.2 million more people are working at home than a decade before, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Home-Based Workers in the United States: 2010 contains findings from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the American Community Survey. The combined analysis provides timely and comprehensive statistics on people […]
Continue reading …Mega-Commuters: 600,000 Workers Have 90-Minute Or More Commute
11/04/2013 Comments Off on Mega-Commuters: 600,000 Workers Have 90-Minute Or More Commute
By ROBERT SCALLY— I was once among an elite corps of mega-commuters. As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, mega-commuters are about 600,000 full-time American workers who commute at least 90 minutes and 50 miles to get to work. About 8.1% of U.S. workers have commutes of 60 minutes or longer, according to a new […]
Continue reading …Equal Pay Day For Women In Infographics Showing Disparity
09/04/2013 Comments Off on Equal Pay Day For Women In Infographics Showing Disparity
Equal Pay Day For Women In Infographics Showing Disparity Equal Pay Day For Women Doesn’t Arrive Until April
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