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Analysis Finds No Real Shortage Of U.S. STEM Workers
The so-called shortage of U.S. workers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields may be creation of multi-national companies that want to keep wages low. Contrary to many industry claims, the study finds that U.S. colleges and universities provide an ample supply of highly qualified science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates. In new […]
What Would Peter Drucker Say? Workers Pay For High Executive Salaries
12/04/2013 Comments Off on What Would Peter Drucker Say? Workers Pay For High Executive Salaries
By SAM PIZZIGATI— Peter Drucker, the analyst who founded modern management science, died in 2005 at age 95. When he died, business leaders worldwide hailed this Austrian-born American for his enormous contribution to enterprise efficiency and effectiveness. But Peter Drucker also cared deeply about enterprise morality. In his later years, he watched — and despaired — […]
Continue reading …Misclassifying Employees To Avoid Health Care Reform In 2014 Can Backfire
26/02/2013 Comments Off on Misclassifying Employees To Avoid Health Care Reform In 2014 Can Backfire
While the Affordable Healthcare Act doesn’t go into full effect until 2014, the employee count to determine which employers meet the threshold of 50 full-time employees will be based on 2013 numbers. That has some employers scrambling now to find ways to stay below the 50 person mark, a number which actually includes employees working […]
Continue reading …German Corporate Governance Laws: More Down-To-Earth CEO Pay Plans
26/02/2013 Comments Off on German Corporate Governance Laws: More Down-To-Earth CEO Pay Plans
By Sam Pizzigati— Tree huggers and power suits are finding some surprising common ground. When do societies start taking a new idea seriously? Easy. New ideas gain traction when starkly different sorts of people champion them. This process is beginning to unfold with the notion of a “maximum wage,” the idea that we should limit the […]
Continue reading …Business Leaders Applaud Obama Strategy For U.S. Economy
15/02/2013 Comments Off on Business Leaders Applaud Obama Strategy For U.S. Economy
In his State of the Union address, President Obama focused attention on creating good jobs and growth in the U.S. economy. For the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a national coalition of business organizations that together represent more than 160,000 small and medium businesses, the clear commitment to policies of investment versus austerity was welcome. […]
Continue reading …Court Rules Kansas Strippers Entitled To Unemployment Benefits
12/02/2013 Comments Off on Court Rules Kansas Strippers Entitled To Unemployment Benefits
It’s the law: Strippers in Kansas are entitled to unemployment benefits. In a labor law case that took eight years to dance its way through the state legal system, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that strippers are employees and are entitled to unemployment insurance. Siding with the state Department of Labor, the Kansas Supreme Court […]
Continue reading …Americans For Job Security: Nonprofit’s Election Year Spending Spikes, Opposes Obama
07/02/2013 Comments Off on Americans For Job Security: Nonprofit’s Election Year Spending Spikes, Opposes Obama
By DAVE LEVINTHAL, The Center For Public Integrity— Pro-business powerhouse Americans for Job Security cannot, by federal law, make politics its primary purpose. But as contentious federal elections and state-level ballot initiatives raged during 2012, the nonprofit organizationʼs income spiked at least tenfold compared to 2011, a non-election year, records show. The cash windfall fueled tens […]
Continue reading …How Will Business Build Consumers Trust In 2013?
05/02/2013 Comments Off on How Will Business Build Consumers Trust In 2013?
Global onfidence in business is low. The effects of banking scandals, the resulting global financial crisis and Great Recession continue to reverberate across the globe. Royal Bank of Scotland is facing more fines over it manipulation of the LIBOR, we are once again reminded of the scandals that have served to further erode public trust […]
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Nonprofit Counterpart International has joined the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiativive www.counterpart.org. “Engaging with the UN Global Compact is a great opportunity and a reflection of our values,” says Joan Parker, Counterpart’s president and CEO. “This initiative allows Counterpart to do what it does best: forge meaningful partnerships to drive sustainable […]
Continue reading …B Corporations: Worker-Owned Home Care Coops 1st In Their Industry
04/02/2013 Comments Off on B Corporations: Worker-Owned Home Care Coops 1st In Their Industry
Two home care agencies are taking the lead in publicly committing to the triple bottom line—people, planet, and profits—through their certification as B Corporations. The Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) and Home Care Associates (HCA) of Philadelphia, two worker-owned, cooperative home care agencies, are the nation’s first home care companies to earn B Corporation certification. In United States […]
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