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Lip Service? Poll Shows Concern Over Older Workers Retiring, Business Losing Skills
09/04/2012 Comments Off on Lip Service? Poll Shows Concern Over Older Workers Retiring, Business Losing Skills
Employers are apparently waking up to the fact that millions of older workers will begin retiring soon, and they’ve done relatively little about it — other than layoff older workers. A joint poll released 09 April 2012 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and AARP shows that “U.S. employers are ramping up skills training and employee benefits aimed […]
Continue reading …NLRB Considers Office Consolidations
13/03/2012 Comments Off on NLRB Considers Office Consolidations
The National Labor Relations Board is considering a program that would consolidate regional offices in St. Louis, Mo. (Region 14) and Kansas City, Kan. (Region 17). The pilot would also move the office in Peoria, Ill., from the jurisdiction of the St. Louis office to that of the regional office in Indianapolis, In. (Region 25). […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases
06/03/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases
EEOC Wins Settlements in Piggly Wiggly, Tyson Foods Cases By LAURA LIEBECK — American workers prevailed in three separate discrimination cases recently settled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). In Tennessee, the owners of Piggly Wiggly supermarkets in Hartsville and Lafayette, Tn., must pay $40,000 to settle a race and gender discrimination lawsuit filed […]
Continue reading …OSHA Model Workplace Program Now Subject Of Two Probes
03/03/2012 Comments Off on OSHA Model Workplace Program Now Subject Of Two Probes
By CHRIS HAMBY, iWatchNews— The Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General will examine a federal program that recognizes “model workplaces” and exempts them from regular inspections, the office’s audit plan for the coming fiscal year shows. The assessment comes as an Occupational Safety and Health Administration task force is conducting its own review of the agency’s Voluntary Protection Programs […]
Continue reading …Atomic Workers Reject Union, Employer Misconduct Alleged
02/03/2012 Comments Off on Atomic Workers Reject Union, Employer Misconduct Alleged
On Wednesday, 29 February 2012, a two-thirds majority of technical workers at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) near Albany, New York, rejected a unionization bid, amid allegations of employer misconduct. The vote was 87 in favor and 166 against out of 265 eligible voters, according to a statement from Local 147 of the International […]
Continue reading …Oregon May Ban Job Ads Telling Unemployed Not to Apply
28/02/2012 Comments Off on Oregon May Ban Job Ads Telling Unemployed Not to Apply
The Oregon House of Representatives voted Monday, 27 February 2012, to ban job advertisements that tell unemployed job seekers to not apply, the Associated Press reports. The Oregon House approved the bill on a 56-4 vote, sending the measure to Gov. John Kitzhaber. If the bill becomes law, Oregon’s employers could still simply exclude unemployed […]
Continue reading …Labor Standards Database Launched By ILO
24/02/2012 Comments Off on Labor Standards Database Launched By ILO
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched a comprehensive new database providing open access to the latest information on ILO international labor standards as well as national labor and social security laws. Labor Standards Database The new database, called NORMLEX, provides a user-friendly interface in English, French and Spanish on issues such as the ratification status […]
Continue reading …Racial Harassment, Noose Cost Alabama Cement Plant $400,000
23/02/2012 Comments Off on Racial Harassment, Noose Cost Alabama Cement Plant $400,000
The dark days of old South apparently still live on at Ready Mix USA’s plant in Montgomery, Ala. A noose was allegedly displayed at the Ready Mix worksite in Montgomery. African-American workers were the subject of derogatory racial language, including Ku Klux Klan references, used by a direct Ready Mix supervisor and manager and that […]
Continue reading …Judge Rules For Lesbian In Health Insurance Case
23/02/2012 Comments Off on Judge Rules For Lesbian In Health Insurance Case
A federal judge has ruled same-sex couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples, in a decision that has implications for employee health insurance benefits. Ninth Circuit U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled Wednesday, 22 February 2012, that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, declaring that the federal […]
Continue reading …EEOC Wins Religious Discrimination Suit With Convergys
20/02/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Wins Religious Discrimination Suit With ConvergysBy LAURA LIEBECK– During a 2011 job interview Shannon Fantroy, told a Convergys Customer Management Group recruiter that he observes the Jewish sabbeth — which is from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday — and could not work on Saturdays. The recruiter for a call center in Hazelwood, Mo., told Fantroy that unless he […]
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