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Young And Older Workers, Two Sides Of The Same Coin
12/10/2012 Comments Off on Young And Older Workers, Two Sides Of The Same Coin
ILO News– Developed economies are facing two interconnected challenges: youth unemployment is growing and people are living longer. At first glance, the answer might seem very simple: lower the retirement age so that young people replace older workers while the latter move into a well-deserved rest. But that would be missing a very important point. […]
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 …Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?
11/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?
Social media has gone to work to stay and many companies are still trying to figure out what to do about it. Some forward-looking industries are embracing social media. Others are at least starting to put policies in place to make sure the use of social media by employees remains appropriate. A smaller group hopes […]
Continue reading …International Day Of The Girl Child: ILO Calls For Equal Treatment
11/10/2012 Comments Off on International Day Of The Girl Child: ILO Calls For Equal Treatment
ILO News- Around 88 million of the world’s child laborers are young girls under 18. Many are in the lowest paid, least secure jobs. They find themselves constrained by gender inequality at home and in the workplace. Others who work in the home remain invisible and unaccounted for. Guy Ryder, International Labour Organization director-general, has […]
Continue reading …Indonesia Clamps Down On Outsourcing After Nationwide Strike
09/10/2012 Comments Off on Indonesia Clamps Down On Outsourcing After Nationwide Strike
After a nationwide strike shut down many industries, workers in Indonesia have won a major victory, forcing the government to enact new rules clamping down on outsourcing. The Indonesian government is imposing tighter restrictions on the employment of workers through outsourcing following the 3 October 2012 nationwide labor protests. New regulations will ban outsourcing companies from […]
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 …Irish Workers Find Jobs, Find Canada Isn’t Utopia But Plan To Stay
08/10/2012 Comments Off on Irish Workers Find Jobs, Find Canada Isn’t Utopia But Plan To Stay
From the Irish Independent comes this modern-day tale of what is age-old story for Irish workers. Forced abroad by a lack of work at home, Irish workers are finding jobs abroad and sometimes new homes. He tries not to think of how far away he is from home. But it’s always there in the back […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Selected Pending And Resolved Age Discrimination In Employment Act Cases
06/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Selected Pending And Resolved Age Discrimination In Employment Act Cases
EEOC: Selected List Of Pending And Resolved Cases Under The Age Discrimination In Employment Act (ADEA) As Of August 2012 PENDING AGE DISCRIMINATION CASES: 2012 Marymount Manhattan College: (S.D. N.Y) filed 4/18/12 by New York District Office – The Commission alleges that Charging Party, a 64-year-old choreography instructor, was not hired for an assistant professorship […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Big Settlements In Recent Discrimination And Racial Harassment Cases
06/10/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Big Settlements In Recent Discrimination And Racial Harassment Cases
Among the horror stories are blatantly racist bosses, nooses hanging in the workplace, a county prosecutor turned workplace persecutor and systematic national origin discrimination. In the past few months, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, has handled several cases involving severe racial harassment. The cases include a $2.75 million settlement against an environmental clean […]
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