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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 …Equal Pay Day: Association Publishes Latest Analysis Of The Gender Pay Gap
09/04/2013 Comments Off on Equal Pay Day: Association Publishes Latest Analysis Of The Gender Pay Gap
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., Internationally And Online
09/04/2013 Comments Off on Equal Pay Day 2013 Events In The U.S., Internationally And Online
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 …Living Wages Let Workers Afford Healthier Food
07/04/2013 Comments Off on Living Wages Let Workers Afford Healthier Food
By JILL RICHARDSON– Healthy food is expensive and telling people to eat organic, local food is elitist. Have you heard that argument before? It’s true. Healthy, organic, local food is expensive. Calorie for calorie, you get more for your money at a fast food drive-through than at a farmer’s market. And the fast food will be […]
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Explaining Africa’s (Dis)advantage Africa’s economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, firm-level data for around 80 countries are used to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms perform significantly worse than firms in other regions. They have lower productivity levels and growth rates, export less, and have …read more
Continue reading …Sexual Harassment: When Work Becomes A Sexual Battleground
08/03/2013 Comments Off on Sexual Harassment: When Work Becomes A Sexual Battleground
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 […]
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 …Misclassifying Employees To Avoid Health Care Reform In 2014 Can Backfire
26/02/2013 Comments Off on Misclassifying Employees To Avoid Health Care Reform In 2014 Can Backfire
While the Affordable Healthcare Act doesn’t go into full effect until 2014, the employee count to determine which employers meet the threshold of 50 full-time employees will be based on 2013 numbers. That has some employers scrambling now to find ways to stay below the 50 person mark, a number which actually includes employees working […]
Continue reading …From Kenya Slum Dweller To Company Director Creating Jobs
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Lorna Rutto, Director, Eco-Post Recycling, Kenya ILO photo ILO News– Lorna Rutto was born in one of the most stunning parts of Kenya – the Rift Valley region of Nakuru, home to wildlife, pink flamingos and dormant volcanoes. But amidst this natural beauty are the sprawling slums of Kaptembwa where she grew up, on the […]
Continue reading …U.S. Guest Worker Programs “Close to Slavery,” Says Report
25/02/2013 Comments Off on U.S. Guest Worker Programs “Close to Slavery,” Says ReportThe Southern Poverty Law Center is out with sixth edition of its report Close to Slavery: Guest Worker Programs in the United States. Immigration law reform is once again entering the national conversation in the United States. Businesses are calling for new program allowing workers from other nations to work. These workers and the jobs […]
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