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All About Job STRESS, Part 2: Job Stress Prevention, A Comprehensive Approach
09/02/2013 Comments Off on All About Job STRESS, Part 2: Job Stress Prevention, A Comprehensive Approach
Preventing Job Stress – How to Change the Organization to Prevent Job Stress Preventing On The Job Stress : A Comprehensive Approach Ensure that the workload is in line with workers’ capabilities and resources. Design jobs to provide meaning, stimulation, and opportunities for workers to use their skills. Clearly define workers’ roles and responsibilities. Give […]
Continue reading …All About Job STRESS, Part 1: Dealing With The Working World
09/02/2013 Comments Off on All About Job STRESS, Part 1: Dealing With The Working WorldAll About Job STRESS, Part 1: Dealing With The Working World About job stress and health: The nature of work is changing at whirlwind speed. Perhaps now more than ever before, job stress poses a threat to the health of workers and, in turn, to the health organizations. Through its research programs in job stress […]
Continue reading …ILO: Tougher Measures Needed To Curb Forced Labor
08/02/2013 Comments Off on ILO: Tougher Measures Needed To Curb Forced Labor
ILO News— A new ILO report highlights the need for tougher measures to combat forced labor, which claims 21 million victims worldwide. Men, women and children worldwide are coerced into jobs they can’t leave, trapped in debt bondage, trafficked for sexual exploitation and even born into slavery. Efforts to prevent, identify and prosecute cases of […]
Continue reading …Abusive Boss? How To Deal With An SOB Abusive Boss
08/02/2013 Comments Off on Abusive Boss? How To Deal With An SOB Abusive Boss
Are you one of the many workers who has been or may become subject to abusive bosses at some point in their working lives? HR studies reveal that a half or more of all workers may be subject to abusive bosses during their careers.[1] That is more than 65 million workers, a huge number that […]
Continue reading …Rise Of Middle Class Jobs In The Developing World Could Spur Growth
22/01/2013 Comments Off on Rise Of Middle Class Jobs In The Developing World Could Spur Growth
ILO News- The number of middle class workers in the developing world has risen sharply during the past decade, potentially creating a much-needed boost to future growth and consumption in these economies. New figures in the ILO’s Global Employment Trends 2013 show that 42% of workers in developing countries – nearly 1.1 billion workers – […]
Continue reading …Domestic Workers Uniting On The Home Front
19/01/2013 Comments Off on Domestic Workers Uniting On The Home Front
ILO News– Working in private houses as cooks, nannies, cleaners, care workers or just general housekeepers, domestic workers are more isolated than most groups of workers. But from Indonesia to Kenya, Manila to New York City, they are coming together to create their own organizations and, collectively, to demand decent working conditions. Already twenty-one organizations […]
Continue reading …E-Waste Recycling Turns First World Electronic Junk Into Third World Jobs
18/01/2013 Comments Off on E-Waste Recycling Turns First World Electronic Junk Into Third World Jobs
ILO News– There are few jobs to be had in the depressed Mexican town of Fronteras. So the “tough women” – as they are now known – have taken matters into their own hands, turning junk into a successful enterprise. Their co-operative near the US border is often cited as an example of determined entrepreneurship […]
Continue reading …OSHA Should Safeguard Contingent Workers, Report Suggests
16/01/2013 Comments Off on OSHA Should Safeguard Contingent Workers, Report Suggests
By CHRIS HAMBY, Center for Public Integrity—Workplace safety and health regulators should conduct an enforcement blitz and amend policies to give greater protection to the growing number of vulnerable temporary, or “contingent,” workers, a new report recommends. The report from the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit research and advocacy group, echoes many of the findings of a […]
Continue reading …MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
Chosen by a panel of judges that included MythBusters co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, here’s a closer look at the U.S. Department of Labor’s winners of its Worker Safety and Health App Challenge 2013. Prizes totaling $30,000 are being awarded to four entrants who submitted tools that best demonstrate the importance of recognizing and […]
Continue reading …MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
TV’s MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are once again using science and engineering to help keep America’s youth safe at work. Savage and Hyneman, cohosts of Discovery Channel’s popular MythBusters, were among a panel to judges that selected winners of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Safety in the Workplace Innovator Award,” the “Safety and […]
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