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Infographic: What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee?
10/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee?
What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee? This infographic is really selling the merits of interviewing job candidates by video. However, it does give an interesting and informative view of the employees recruiting process and and its costs. To repare the inforgraphic the HR Tech Blog partnered with Video Interviewing Provider Wowzer. They surveyed hundreds […]
Continue reading …Open Enrollment: Do Your Homework Before Choosing Health Care Benefits
10/10/2012 Comments Off on Open Enrollment: Do Your Homework Before Choosing Health Care Benefits
Employees in the U.S. soon will be asked to make decisions about their 2013 health care benefits during what most companies call open enrollment season. According to Aon Hewitt, Aon’s global human resources division, the benefits offered to employees next year may be affected by a number of factors, including rising health care costs, the […]
Continue reading …Billionaires Behaving Badly: Wealthy Show Contempt For Working People
09/10/2012 Comments Off on Billionaires Behaving Badly: Wealthy Show Contempt For Working People
Gina Rinehart – the world’s richest woman – hates you and isn’t afraid to let you know. Rinehart and American David Siegel are just two examples of what many the world’s wealthy think of working people – and that includes you upper middle class folks. Gina Rinehart earned her wealth the old fashioned way: inheritance. […]
Continue reading …How To Detect & Prevent Workplace Bullying, A Chronic Corporate Disease
08/10/2012 Comments Off on How To Detect & Prevent Workplace Bullying, A Chronic Corporate Disease
By RAKESH MALHOTRA— Stories of workplace bullying are commonplace throughout the United States. Some real-life examples: Mavis: “When I started there, I was told that someone had been acting in the position and had expected to get the job. This person continually undermined me and turned other staff against me. I endured 12 months of […]
Continue reading …Health Insurers Get Ready For Insurance Exchanges, But Exchanges May Not Be Ready
05/10/2012 Comments Off on Health Insurers Get Ready For Insurance Exchanges, But Exchanges May Not Be Ready
By JAY HANCOCK, KHN Staff Writer— The attraction of the 2010 health care law for insurance companies is obvious: Millions of new customers and billions in new spending. Those dollars will flow through state exchanges, online marketplaces where customers can shop for insurance. “This is the largest expansion since the Medicare program in 1965,” said […]
Continue reading …In Michigan National Unions And Chamber Of Commerce Slug It Out
03/10/2012 Comments Off on In Michigan National Unions And Chamber Of Commerce Slug It Out
By Paul Abowd, Center For Public Integrity— After two bruising years for organized labor in the Midwest, the movement has managed to land two pro-union measures on the November ballot in Michigan. Michigan locals and their national leaders now face an ad campaign by the Michigan Chamber of Commerce and its friends, urging voters to resist […]
Continue reading …Infographic: Bring Back The 40 Hour Workweek
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Bring back the 40-hour workweek. The eight-hour day movement or 40-hour week movement, also known as the short-time movement, has its origins in the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In England, as in other European nations, the rapid development of industrial production in large factories transformed working life. Factory work consisted of long hours and poor […]
Continue reading …Top 10 Most Frequently Violated OSHA Workplace Safety Standards
02/10/2012 Comments Off on Top 10 Most Frequently Violated OSHA Workplace Safety Standards
Top 10 Most Frequently Violated OSHA Workplace Safety Standards for Fiscal 2011 (Oct. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2011) The following is a list of the top 10 most frequently violated standards found following inspections of worksites by federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators. OSHA publishes this list to alert employers about these commonly […]
Continue reading …Branding Health Care Insurance Exchanges To Help Make The Sale
01/10/2012 Comments Off on Branding Health Care Insurance Exchanges To Help Make The Sale
By PAULINE BARTOLONE, CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO– As states work to comply with the federal health care law, many are designing their insurance exchanges, where people will be able to shop for coverage. But just the word “exchange” sounds to many like off-putting government-speak, and some states are eager to come up with a more appealing […]
Continue reading …Aboard The Women’s Rights Bus In Pakistan, Ending Harassment of Women Commuters
30/09/2012 Comments Off on Aboard The Women’s Rights Bus In Pakistan, Ending Harassment of Women Commuters
ILO News– Public transport is meant for the convenience of the masses, but this is not always the case in Pakistan, particularly for women riding buses. Women represent 51% of Pakistan’s population. But in a town like Karachi, fewer than a dozen of the more than 60 seats in public buses are allocated for them. […]
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