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Taiwan – Workforce Will Grow Until 2030, Retirement Delayed
09/09/2016 Comments Off on Taiwan – Workforce Will Grow Until 2030, Retirement Delayed
By Danny Romero – Taiwan’s workforce will keep rising until 2030 according to data from the National Development Council (NDC), despite the working age population (15-64), reaching a peak this year. The NDC report, which contains estimates for the nation’s population trends from this year through 2061, said the ratio of Taiwan‘s working-age people to the total […]
Continue reading …Vietnam Textile Workers May Risk Being Replaced By Machines
09/09/2016 Comments Off on Vietnam Textile Workers May Risk Being Replaced By Machines
By David Papapostolou — Up to 86% of Vietnam’s workers in the textile, clothing and footwear industry are at high risk of losing their jobs to automation in the near future, according to a recent survey by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Low labor productivity leads to greater automation, as the cost of using an automatic sewing […]
Continue reading …Precedent Overturned NLRB Revamps ‘Past Practice’ Unilateral Change Doctrine
08/09/2016 Comments Off on Precedent Overturned NLRB Revamps ‘Past Practice’ Unilateral Change Doctrine
By Joy Waltemath and Lisa Milam-Perez, J.D. — On remand from the D.C. Circuit, a divided four-member NLRB held that DuPont violated Section 8(a)(5) of the Act when it made unilateral changes to bargaining unit employees’ benefit plans after expiration of a collective bargaining agreement. Reaffirming its prior stance that the employer’s unilateral changes were unlawful, the majority, more […]
Continue reading …July Job Openings 5.9 million, Hires And Separations Unchanged
07/09/2016 Comments Off on July Job Openings 5.9 million, Hires And Separations Unchanged
Job openings increased to 5.9 million on the last business day of July. Hires and separations were little changed at 5.2 million and 4.9 million, respectively. The quits rate was 2.1 percent and the layoffs and discharges rate was 1.1 percent. Source: Job Openings And Labor Turnover Survey
Continue reading …McLean, Ill., Has Largest County 1st Qtr 2016 Wages Loss
07/09/2016 Comments Off on McLean, Ill., Has Largest County 1st Qtr 2016 Wages Loss
From first quarter 2015 to first quarter 2016, McLean, Ill., had the largest county percentage decline in average weekly wages at -13.3 percent. Williamson, Tenn., had the largest county over-the-year percentage increase in employment in March 2016 at 7.9 percent. Source: County Employment
Continue reading …Volkswagen Must Bargain With UAW, NLRB orders
06/09/2016 Comments Off on Volkswagen Must Bargain With UAW, NLRB orders
By Joy Waltemath and Kathleen Kapusta, J.D. — Volkswagen must recognize and bargain with a UAW local union at the automaker’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant, a three-member panel of the NLRB ordered in a summary judgment ruling. By failing and refusing since December 2015 to recognize and bargain with the union as the exclusive bargaining representative of its employees in […]
Continue reading …Employment Law Legal Research Libraries – TOOL
14/02/2016 Comments Off on Employment Law Legal Research Libraries – TOOLBy David Stephanides — The WK Labor & Employment Law Library provides publications in a single comprehensive source for labor and employment law. WK publications include fair employment practices, labor relations and disabilities law at the federal and state levels and provides comprehensive primary source research materials, annotated explanations along with news and current developments. Aspen Publishers […]
Continue reading …Court Rules Claim Work Hours Cut As ACA Dodge Plausible Under ERISA
13/02/2016 Comments Off on Court Rules Claim Work Hours Cut As ACA Dodge Plausible Under ERISABy Joy Waltemath and Lisa Milam-Perez, J.D. — A former Dave & Buster’s employee may proceed with a putative class action alleging that her work hours were cut so that the restaurant chain could avoid paying the looming increase in health insurance costs brought on by Obamacare, a federal district court in New York held. Denying the employer’s motion […]
Continue reading …Singapore – Tech Worker Demand Grows
04/02/2016 Comments Off on Singapore – Tech Worker Demand Grows
By Danny Romero – In Singapore, there are nearly 15,000 IT vacancies with the number expected to double, according to the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), a government organization responsible for the nation’s IT growth. ChannelNewsAsia reports that IDA found that there were 150,000 tech professionals working in Singapore in 2014, with about 15,000 vacancies that […]
Continue reading …14 states boost minimum wage in January; federal contract employees get raise
04/02/2016 Comments Off on 14 states boost minimum wage in January; federal contract employees get raise
By David Stephanides – As 2016 begins, the Department of Labor continued its push for a increase by underscoring the progress that has been made while federal lawmakers are still sitting on their hands. Noting that in the absence of a national raise, states and localities have taken action, the DOL’s chief economist, Heidi Shierholz, pointed out […]
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