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Dresser Rand Settles EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit
08/11/2011 Comments Off on Dresser Rand Settles EEOC Religious Discrimination Lawsuit
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Dresser Rand C0. has agreed to pay $110,000 and provide other relief to settle a religious discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency announced today, 8 Nov 2011. According to the lawsuit, Harry Davis, a Jehovah’s Witness employed at Dresser Rand’s Painted Post, N.Y., location, had a […]
Continue reading …Few Small Businesses Use Valuable Obama Health Care Tax Credit
07/11/2011 Comments Off on Few Small Businesses Use Valuable Obama Health Care Tax Credit
While small business owners frequently complain about the cost of providing health insurance for the their employees, few are taking advantage of valuable health care tax credit, according to published reports. According to the IRS, the small business health care tax credit helps small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations afford the cost of covering their employees. […]
Continue reading …Business Health Care Tax Credit for Small Business Employers
07/11/2011 Comments Off on Business Health Care Tax Credit for Small Business Employers
The small business health care tax credit helps small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations afford the cost of covering their employees. Eligibility Rules Providing health care coverage. A qualifying employer must cover at least 50% of the cost of health care coverage for some of its workers based on the single rate. Firm size. A […]
Continue reading …Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll
04/11/2011 Comments Off on Coping With Unemployment’s Emotional Toll
Few things in life can hit you as hard emotionally than being unemployed. Even if you’ve been laid off before or you knew the layoff was coming, the act of being rendered jobless stings. Fortunately there are many positive ways to cope with emotional toll that come with unemployment. Here’s one how-to take from four […]
Continue reading …MoneyWatch – How to Use Google to Get a Job
11/10/2011 Comments Off on MoneyWatch – How to Use Google to Get a Job
A good how-to on using Google in a job search. From moneywatch.bnet.com – How to Use Google to Get a Job With the economy in a state of slow recovery and an influx of recent grads in the job market, many Americans are searching for work. Trends from Google Search reveal that an increasing number […]
Continue reading …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 …LinkedIn Buys Real-Time Search Startup IndexTank
11/10/2011 Comments Off on LinkedIn Buys Real-Time Search Startup IndexTank
LinkedIn has acquired San Francisco-based IndexTank, a provider of real-time hosted search technology, for an undisclosed amount. LinkedIn and IndexTank say that the acquisition will help improve LinkedIn’s internal search technology. “LinkedIn has exploded over the past few years, and the search team has done a fantastic job at building world-class technologies to keep up […]
Continue reading …Unemployment, Training and Finding Work in Vietnam: A Big Job
11/10/2011 Comments Off on Unemployment, Training and Finding Work in Vietnam: A Big Job
Farmland in Vietnam is being gobbled up for development at the rate of 17,000 hectares — more than 65 square miles — per year, putting an annual average 238,000 poorly educated rural farmers out of work in the process. Vietnam’s Communist government reports a “high” rate of rural unemployment of 3.74% during the first 9 […]
Continue reading …HR a Challenge For Construction Firms in Saudi Arabia
10/10/2011 Comments Off on HR a Challenge For Construction Firms in Saudi Arabia
The “challenge” of “human resources” for companies doing business in the Arab states means hiring more of national population. The countries and companies have historically been heavily dependent on “guest workers” or “foreign experts” be they Malaysian maids or German civil engineers. The governments in nations such as Saudi Arabia are anxious to keep their […]
Continue reading …Nigeria’s Future Depends on Human Capital, Not Oil
10/10/2011 Comments Off on Nigeria’s Future Depends on Human Capital, Not Oil
Awash in oil, rife with corruption, 3.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS, and simmering ethnic/regional tensions, Nigeria is at least giving a nod toward education and the development of a workforce that will have soemthing to offer in the nation’s post-oil economy other than submitting slavery in return for survival. Political and economic reforms began […]
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