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MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters’ Choice: DOL Worker Safety & Health App Challenge Winners
Chosen by a panel of judges that included MythBusters co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, here’s a closer look at the U.S. Department of Labor’s winners of its Worker Safety and Health App Challenge 2013. Prizes totaling $30,000 are being awarded to four entrants who submitted tools that best demonstrate the importance of recognizing and […]
Continue reading …MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
14/01/2013 Comments Off on MythBusters Help DOL Pick Winners Of Worker Safety & Health App Contest
TV’s MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are once again using science and engineering to help keep America’s youth safe at work. Savage and Hyneman, cohosts of Discovery Channel’s popular MythBusters, were among a panel to judges that selected winners of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Safety in the Workplace Innovator Award,” the “Safety and […]
Continue reading …An Invisible Maid Army, 52 Million Domestic Workers Toil Worldwide
09/01/2013 Comments Off on An Invisible Maid Army, 52 Million Domestic Workers Toil Worldwide
ILO News– At least 52 million people around the world – mainly women – are employed as domestic workers, according to the first research of its kind conducted by the International Labor Organization. They account for 7.5% of women’s wage employment worldwide and a far greater share in some regions, particularly Asia and the Pacific […]
Continue reading …Payday Lenders Ordered To Stop ‘Deceptive And Illegal’ Payday Loan Practices
08/01/2013 Comments Off on Payday Lenders Ordered To Stop ‘Deceptive And Illegal’ Payday Loan Practices
By DAVID HEATH, Center for Public Integrity— Controversial payday lenders that claim to be owned by Indian tribes and offer payday loans over the Internet have agreed to stop practices that federal authorities say deceive borrowers and violate federal laws. The agreement, filed in federal court, could save borrowers hundreds of dollars on each payday loan. […]
Continue reading …Social Media Passwords Protected From Prying Employers In Six States
07/01/2013 Comments Off on Social Media Passwords Protected From Prying Employers In Six States
It is now illegal in six U.S. states for employers to ask job applicants for the passwords to their social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. California and Illinois recently joined four other states barring employers from demanding that employees divulge their social-media passwords. Passed during 2012, California’s and Illinois’ laws became effective January 1, 2013. […]
Continue reading …India Supports Gender Equality But Gives Men Edge In Jobs, Education
05/01/2013 Comments Off on India Supports Gender Equality But Gives Men Edge In Jobs, Education
By MICHAEL REMEZ, Senior Writer, Pew Research Center for the People & the Press— The recent gang rape and killing of a young woman in New Delhi – and the subsequent protests – have focused worldwide attention on gender issues in India. A 2010 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey that examined attitudes about gender around the […]
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 …Companies Avoid OSHA Penalties After Workplace Deaths
02/01/2013 Comments Off on Companies Avoid OSHA Penalties After Workplace Deaths
By CHRIS HAMBY, The Center For Public Integrity— The temperature outside barely reached double digits on the morning of Jan. 15, 2009, and, inside the Crucible Specialty Metals steel mill in Syracuse, N.Y., it was bitterly cold. Ice coated the equipment, forcing employees to use torches to free the machines so they could start their […]
Continue reading …Court Orders Daycon Products To Give Strikers Their Jobs Back
05/12/2012 Comments Off on Court Orders Daycon Products To Give Strikers Their Jobs Back
By ROBERT THOMAS- The U.S. Court of Appeals ordered a janitorial supply company in Upper Marlboro, Md., to clean up the mess they created during union negotiations more than two years ago. Daycon Products Co. must reinstate all striking employees and make them whole for any losses incurred. The court also affirmed that the company […]
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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