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Death Of Temporary Worker: Bosses ‘Not Thinking Of Him As A Human Being’
04/02/2013 Comments Off on Death Of Temporary Worker: Bosses ‘Not Thinking Of Him As A Human Being’
By JIM MORRISE and CHIP MITCHELL, The Center For Public Integrity— By the time Carlos Centeno arrived at the Loyola University Hospital Burn Center in Chicago, more than 98 minutes had elapsed since his head, torso, arms and legs had been scalded by a 185-degree solution of water and citric acid inside a factory on this city’s southwestern […]
Continue reading …World Bank & IFC Respond To ProPublica’s Critique Of Its Poverty Fighting
05/01/2013 Comments Off on World Bank & IFC Respond To ProPublica’s Critique Of Its Poverty Fighting
Below is a letter from an official of the World Bank’s International Finance Corp., taking issue with our article posted Jan. 2 and co-published with Foreign Policy magazine. It is followed by our brief response. We are deeply disappointed by your article, “Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?,” which raises an important question […]
Continue reading …ALEC’s Decades Of ‘Right-To-Work’ Effort Pay Off In Michigan
04/01/2013 Comments Off on ALEC’s Decades Of ‘Right-To-Work’ Effort Pay Off In Michigan
By PAUL ABOWD, Center for Public Integrity—Amid protests by labor unions, and objections from the stateʼs congressional delegation and even the president, Michiganʼs Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed a “right-to-work” bill into law in December 11, 2012, drawn word-for-word from a 32-year-old “model bill” pushed by a corporate-funded, conservative think tank. The legislation deals a […]
Continue reading …World Bank ‘Fighting Poverty’ Financing Billionaires’ Luxury Hotels
04/01/2013 Comments Off on World Bank ‘Fighting Poverty’ Financing Billionaires’ Luxury Hotels
By CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN, Special to ProPublica— Accra is a city of choking red dust where almost no rain falls for three months at a time and clothes hung out on a line dry in 15 minutes. So the new five-star Mövenpick hotel affords a haven of sorts in Ghana’s crowded capital, with manicured lawns, amply watered […]
Continue reading …Nevada Hospital Official Says She Was Fired For Questioning Allegedly Inflated Medicare Bills
09/10/2012 Comments Off on Nevada Hospital Official Says She Was Fired For Questioning Allegedly Inflated Medicare Bills
By FRED SCHULTE, Center for Public Integrity– Paula Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room services. Sellers ran Boulder City Hospital’s health information department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing codes doctors and hospitals must use to get paid […]
Continue reading …Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000
Kauai County Hawaii’s top law enforcement officer may have broken more laws than she has enforced. Kauai County Prosecuting Attorney Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho broke federal law, according to the EEOC. According to published reports, Iseri-Carvalho and has also entangled the county in other lawsuits. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a $120,000 settlement was reached […]
Continue reading …NLRB: Calif. Newspaper Kept Violating Labor Law, Must Bargain With Union, Rehire Employees
05/10/2012 Comments Off on NLRB: Calif. Newspaper Kept Violating Labor Law, Must Bargain With Union, Rehire Employees
The long-running labor law tragedy that is the Santa Barbara News-Press has become took another new turn 27 September 2012 with a new ruling from the NLRB. In 2000, Wendy P. McCaw, an ex-wife of billionaire Craig McCaw, bought the paper, which was California’s oldest daily newspaper. Paradoxically McCaw promptly went to war with the […]
Continue reading …Top VA Human Resources Official Quits Over Lavish Conference Spending
02/10/2012 Comments Off on Top VA Human Resources Official Quits Over Lavish Conference Spending
John Sepúlveda, assistant secretary for human resources and administration Veterans Affairs Department, resigned Sunday, 30 September 2012, after an investigation found that the VA overspent on two week long conferences in Orlando, Fla. The investigation found Sepúlveda had “abdicated his responsibilities” by not properly overseeing the conferences. Published reports said Sepúlveda had allegedly lied to […]
Continue reading …Wisconsin Piggly Wigglys Pay $570,000 In Back Pay, Rehires Employees
30/09/2012 Comments Off on Wisconsin Piggly Wigglys Pay $570,000 In Back Pay, Rehires Employees
Piggly Wiggly Midwest, a Wisconsin supermarket chain, couldn’t wiggle out of the consequences of its piggish behavior with some of its unionized employees. Piggly Wiggly Midwest will pay more than $570,000 in back pay to 500 union employees at six Wisconsin stores as part of a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB). The […]
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
Largest EEOC Sexual Harassment Case Settled, Costs Burger King Franchisee $2.5 Million
11/01/2013 Comments Off on Largest EEOC Sexual Harassment Case Settled, Costs Burger King Franchisee $2.5 MillionSexual harassment is costing the world’s largest Burger King franchisee, Carrols Corp., $2.5 million to settle complaints brought by 89 women from around the nation. The move settles a 15-year sexual harassment case that became the largest in the history of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The world’s largest Burger King franchisee, Carrols […]
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