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Robert Half 2013 Salary Guides Highlight Salary Trends, Jobs In Demand
11/10/2012 Comments Off on Robert Half 2013 Salary Guides Highlight Salary Trends, Jobs In Demand
If you land a new technology-related job in 2012 in the United States, you can expect a salary boost of 5.3%, according to the 2013 Salary Guides from the staffing firm Robert Half International. U.S. starting salaries for technology positions in 2013 will have the largest increases among all fields — an average of 5.3%, according […]
Continue reading …Open Enrollment: Do Your Homework Before Choosing Health Care Benefits
10/10/2012 Comments Off on Open Enrollment: Do Your Homework Before Choosing Health Care Benefits
Employees in the U.S. soon will be asked to make decisions about their 2013 health care benefits during what most companies call open enrollment season. According to Aon Hewitt, Aon’s global human resources division, the benefits offered to employees next year may be affected by a number of factors, including rising health care costs, the […]
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 …GOP Leaders Want Obama Administration To Require That Health Systems Communicate
06/10/2012 Comments Off on GOP Leaders Want Obama Administration To Require That Health Systems Communicate
By FRED SCHULTE, Center for Public Integrity— Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and doing little to improve the quality of medical care. In an 4 Oct. 2012 letter to Health […]
Continue reading …Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
Feel like you and a lot of people you know are stuck in bad jobs? If you’re employed in the United States, chances are about one-in-four that you have a bad job, according to a new study. If misery loves company then people with bad jobs have plenty. Almost one-fourth of U.S. workers are in […]
Continue reading …Health Insurers Get Ready For Insurance Exchanges, But Exchanges May Not Be Ready
05/10/2012 Comments Off on Health Insurers Get Ready For Insurance Exchanges, But Exchanges May Not Be Ready
By JAY HANCOCK, KHN Staff Writer— The attraction of the 2010 health care law for insurance companies is obvious: Millions of new customers and billions in new spending. Those dollars will flow through state exchanges, online marketplaces where customers can shop for insurance. “This is the largest expansion since the Medicare program in 1965,” said […]
Continue reading …States Defining ‘Essential’ Coverage For Health Insurance Benefits Under Federal Law
03/10/2012 Comments Off on States Defining ‘Essential’ Coverage For Health Insurance Benefits Under Federal Law
By PHIL GALEWITZ, KHN Staff Writer— California and Washington state will require coverage of acupuncture. Arkansas wants prevention counseling for women at high risk of breast cancer but not coverage of expensive infertility treatment. Oregon opted against covering bariatric surgery for obesity but insurers will have to cover cochlear implants for hearing. These are some […]
Continue reading …ECOMP- E-nnovating Federal Workers’ Compensation Claims and Benefits
03/10/2012 Comments Off on ECOMP- E-nnovating Federal Workers’ Compensation Claims and Benefits
By GARY STEINBERG, U.S. DOL– When a worker is injured on the job, the last thing they need is a towering headache of paperwork. Employers also want to resolve claims efficiently and get their injured employees back to work. Making this process more efficient has been a top business goal for operations across the country. […]
Continue reading …Firms Investing In Scientists Lead Science Careers’ 2012 Top Employers List
02/10/2012 Comments Off on Firms Investing In Scientists Lead Science Careers’ 2012 Top Employers List
If you’re a scientist working for the right biopharmaceutical company you CAN have it all. That’s according to the 2012 Science Careers Top Employers Survey. The big biopharmaceutical companies that have prospered despite global economic turmoil have done so in part by investing in research and development and valuing and respecting the scientists who work […]
Continue reading …Branding Health Care Insurance Exchanges To Help Make The Sale
01/10/2012 Comments Off on Branding Health Care Insurance Exchanges To Help Make The Sale
By PAULINE BARTOLONE, CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO– As states work to comply with the federal health care law, many are designing their insurance exchanges, where people will be able to shop for coverage. But just the word “exchange” sounds to many like off-putting government-speak, and some states are eager to come up with a more appealing […]
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