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Predatory Payday Lenders: On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated By Debt
18/05/2013 Comments Off on Predatory Payday Lenders: On Victory Drive, Soldiers Defeated By Debt
By Paul Kiel and Krista Kjellman Schmid, ProPublica, and Mitchell Hartman, Marketplace– Seven years after Congress banned payday-loan companies from charging exorbitant interest rates to service members, many of the nation’s military bases are surrounded by storefront lenders who charge high annual percentage rates, sometimes exceeding 400%. The Military Lending Act sought to protect service members […]
Continue reading …Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge
18/05/2013 Comments Off on Stable Jobs For Workers With Intellectual Disabilities A Global Challenge
There are almost 200 million persons with intellectual disabilities in the world. For many of them, finding a stable job represents a major challenge. In Li’s case, a little help has made a big difference. Li Chao ILO News– Li Chao is making marmite at the Wan Feng restaurant in Beijing’s Fengtai district. […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup Urges Manufacturers To Help Solve the Skills Shortage
10/05/2013 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup Urges Manufacturers To Help Solve the Skills Shortage
Staffing firm ManpowerGroup is urging manufacturers to commit to private-public sector task forces for developing market-specific solutions to address the skills shortage within the U.S. manufacturing industry. “Innovative manufacturing and prototyping enterprises are growing in the U.S., but hiring in manufacturing is not as robust as we’d like to see,” said Jonas Prising, ManpowerGroup president. “Contemporary […]
Continue reading …Job Outlook: Employers Hire Fewer New College Grads Than Projected
07/05/2013 Comments Off on Job Outlook: Employers Hire Fewer New College Grads Than Projected
Having a change of heart after predicting more robust hiring, employers now say they expect their college hiring levels to remain relatively flat, according to a new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Employers taking part in NACE’s Job Outlook Spring Update survey say they will hire 2.1% more new college […]
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FROM THE CONFERENCE BOARD– The April job increase, and upward revisions for earlier months, was a pleasant early spring surprise. Still, the fundamental problem, four years after the official end of recession, is the continued lack of more final demand, holding firms back from hiring faster. This is especially pronounced in the service sector (excluding health […]
Continue reading …U.S. Employment Situation Improves in April, Payroll to Population Up
02/05/2013 Comments Off on U.S. Employment Situation Improves in April, Payroll to Population Up
By JENNY MARLAR, Gallup— The U.S. Payroll to Population employment rate (P2P), as measured by Gallup, was 44.5% for the month of April, up from 43.4% in March. This is the highest P2P rate so far in 2013, but is still more than a percentage point lower than the 45.7% seen last October, the highest […]
Continue reading …More Companies Looking Outside To Hire Their Next CEO
01/05/2013 Comments Off on More Companies Looking Outside To Hire Their Next CEO
New Report from The Conference Board Examines CEO Succession in the S&P 500 During 2012, 27.1% of S&P 500 companies facing a CEO succession hired an outsider for the top job, according to CEO Succession Practices: 2013 Edition, a new report by The Conference Board released today. The rate confirms an upward trend recorded since the 1970s, […]
Continue reading …Wage Theft And Predatory Corporations – When The Boss Steals Your Pay
01/05/2013 Comments Off on Wage Theft And Predatory Corporations – When The Boss Steals Your Pay
This article on wage theft is part of an ongoing AlterNet series, “The Age of Fraud.“ By LYNN STUART PARRAMORE, AlterNet— Imagine you’ve just landed a job with a big-time retailer. Your task is to load and unload boxes from trucks and containers. It’s backbreaking work. You toil 12 to 16 hours a day, often without […]
Continue reading …Analysis Finds No Real Shortage Of U.S. STEM Workers
27/04/2013 Comments Off on 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 […]
Continue reading …Gallup: U.S. Employee Engagement Improves
26/04/2013 Comments Off on Gallup: U.S. Employee Engagement Improves
By DANIELA YU, JIM HARTER, and SANGEETA AGRAWAL, Gallup— Thirty-six percent of managers and executives were “engaged” in their jobs in 2012 — meaning they are deeply involved in and enthusiastic about their work and actively contributing to their organization. This is the highest level of worker engagement across 12 different occupation types and is […]
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