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California Restaurants: Put Detailed Record-Keeping on Your Menu
23/03/2017 Comments Off on California Restaurants: Put Detailed Record-Keeping on Your Menu
A small restaurant chain’s settlement of a lawsuit alleging wage and hour violations is a $900,000 reminder to California businesses to painstakingly document hourly employees’ breaks.
Continue reading …House Passes Association Health Plans for Small Businesses
23/03/2017 Comments Off on House Passes Association Health Plans for Small BusinessesA bill that would make it easier for small businesses to band together and offer employee coverage through association health plans was brought to the House floor and approved. Its fate in the Senate remained uncertain.
Continue reading …In Focus: Senate Votes to Revoke OSHA Record-Keeping Rule
23/03/2017 Comments Off on In Focus: Senate Votes to Revoke OSHA Record-Keeping RuleAn Obama-era Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule extending the agency’s authority to issue citations for record-keeping rule violations from six months to five years is one step closer to being repealed.
Continue reading …Program Identifies and Trains Low-Wage Workers for Skilled Jobs
23/03/2017 Comments Off on Program Identifies and Trains Low-Wage Workers for Skilled JobsThe Charlottesville (Va.) Works Initiative matches low-wage workers to jobs, provides support services and steers participants toward necessary training. It’s a program the Charlottesville Regional Chamber of Commerce created in partnership with Piedmont Virginia Community College
Continue reading …Woman Reassigned Then Fired After Taking Family Leave Is Entitled to Damages
23/03/2017 Comments Off on Woman Reassigned Then Fired After Taking Family Leave Is Entitled to Damages
A security guard who returned from family leave to a job with less pay and poorer working conditions—and who was later fired—is entitled to damages.
Continue reading …FMLA Bill Would Require Child Bereavement Leave
23/03/2017 Comments Off on FMLA Bill Would Require Child Bereavement Leave
A child’s death should trigger the right to Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) time off, according to a bipartisan group of congressional members who introduced a bill to amend the act.
Continue reading …What a Start-Up’s Scandal Says About Your Workplace
23/03/2017 Comments Off on What a Start-Up’s Scandal Says About Your WorkplaceAllegations of harassment at the feminist-minded company Thinx expose bigger problems with our market-driven society.
Continue reading …South Africa: The Arthur Svensson International Prize to South African wine workers
23/03/2017 Comments Off on South Africa: The Arthur Svensson International Prize to South African wine workersLabourStart headline – Source: Arthur Svensson foundation
Continue reading …SEC charges two Israeli residents with Mobileye insider trading
23/03/2017 Comments Off on SEC charges two Israeli residents with Mobileye insider tradingNEW YORK (Reuters) – Two Israeli residents have been charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with insider trading in Mobileye NV before the maker of sensors and cameras for driverless vehicles agreed to be acquired by Intel Corp for $15.3 billion.
Continue reading …Americans Agree on Paid Leave, but Not on Who Should Pay
23/03/2017 Comments Off on Americans Agree on Paid Leave, but Not on Who Should PayA Pew report also shows people disagree on whether it should be mandatory or optional.
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