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From MyWorkButterfly.com – Pros and Cons of a Home-Based Business
11/10/2011 Comments Off on From MyWorkButterfly.com – Pros and Cons of a Home-Based Business
If you are seeking to balance career and family, looking for flexibility and increased freedom, or are looking to take advantage of new opportunities to increase income, a home-based business may be right for you. Entrepreneurs enjoy independence, but that freedom comes at a price. If you are interested in self-employment but are unsure about […]
Continue reading …Politico – Jobless Benefits Help The Economy
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Politico – Jobless Benefits Help The Economy
By Rep. Lloyd Doggett via Politico A recent bumper sticker captures it all: “Republicans 2012: Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job.” As the ranking member of the subcommittee charged with overseeing unemployment programs, I have experienced the Republicans’ failure to permit a vote on a single meaningful jobs […]
Continue reading …Giving Workers With Disabilities a Chance Can Pay Off
07/10/2011 Comments Off on Giving Workers With Disabilities a Chance Can Pay Off
The disabled are a huge pool of talent that most American employers won’t even consider. From the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch:It’s an abysmal fact, but one that pales when held alongside another national statistic: the unemployment rate among Americans with disabilities is a whopping 70 percent — and holding. There are plenty of reasons for such […]
Continue reading …Women of HR – Is the Good Ol’ Boy Network Just a Myth?
04/10/2011 Comments Off on Women of HR – Is the Good Ol’ Boy Network Just a Myth?
The Women of HR blog asks a provocative question: “Is the good ol’ boy network just a myth?” From Women of HR: The following are a few hypothetical (not really) life stories related to human resources, being a woman in what is still in some circles ‘a man’s world’ and organizational behavior. Read the original […]
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