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Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Leaves Legacy Of Worker Protections, Unfinished Business
11/01/2013 Comments Off on Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Leaves Legacy Of Worker Protections, Unfinished Business
By CHRIS HAMBY, Center for Public Integrity— With her resignation this week, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis leaves behind a department advocates say has adopted a renewed focus on enforcing worker safety laws but been unable to push through a number of long-sought regulations. The first Hispanic woman to hold the top post at a Cabinet-level agency, […]
Continue reading …An Invisible Maid Army, 52 Million Domestic Workers Toil Worldwide
09/01/2013 Comments Off on An Invisible Maid Army, 52 Million Domestic Workers Toil Worldwide
ILO News– At least 52 million people around the world – mainly women – are employed as domestic workers, according to the first research of its kind conducted by the International Labor Organization. They account for 7.5% of women’s wage employment worldwide and a far greater share in some regions, particularly Asia and the Pacific […]
Continue reading …Companies Avoid OSHA Penalties After Workplace Deaths
02/01/2013 Comments Off on Companies Avoid OSHA Penalties After Workplace Deaths
By CHRIS HAMBY, The Center For Public Integrity— The temperature outside barely reached double digits on the morning of Jan. 15, 2009, and, inside the Crucible Specialty Metals steel mill in Syracuse, N.Y., it was bitterly cold. Ice coated the equipment, forcing employees to use torches to free the machines so they could start their […]
Continue reading …Hershey Chocolate Sweatshop Case’s Bittersweet Ending, Back Wages Paid
05/12/2012 Comments Off on Hershey Chocolate Sweatshop Case’s Bittersweet Ending, Back Wages Paid
The workforce at a warehouse run by Hershey’s chocolate contractors melted down in sweatshop conditions in August 2011, exposing a summer employment scam that took advantage students from around the world. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recovered more than $213,000 in back wages for 1,028 foreign students who worked in summer jobs in […]
Continue reading …California Warehouse Worker Lawsuit Targets Wal-Mart
01/12/2012 Comments Off on California Warehouse Worker Lawsuit Targets Wal-Mart
By JIM MORRIS and ADITHYA SAMBAMURTHY, Center for Public Integrity, MIRA LOMA, Calif.– Lawyers alleging wage theft from mostly immigrant Latino contract workers at a Southern California warehouse complex took steps to add Wal-Mart as a defendant in an ongoing federal lawsuit. The move is expected to draw the nation’s largest retailer into a case in which it had, […]
Continue reading …Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week – 14 – 20 October 2012
14/10/2012 Comments Off on Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week – 14 – 20 October 2012
Freedom From Workplace Bullies Week, 14 – 20 October 2012. Workplace bullying is a systematic campaign of interpersonal destruction that jeopardizes your health, your career, the job you once loved. Workplace bullying is a non-physical, non-homicidal form of violence. Because it is abusive it causes both emotional and stress-related physical harm. This event is organized […]
Continue reading …Federal Investigators Find Childcare Workers Routinely Cheated Out Of Wages
13/10/2012 Comments Off on Federal Investigators Find Childcare Workers Routinely Cheated Out Of Wages
Cheating daycare workers out of wages owed to them is so common, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is conducting ongoing multistate investigations of wage law violations at childcare facilities. Childcare is a rapidly expanding industry that employs many low-wage, vulnerable workers. These workers who, due to a lack of knowledge of […]
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 […]
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- 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