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Young Adults Optimistic, Underemployed Face Bad Economy
20/04/2012 Comments Off on Young Adults Optimistic, Underemployed Face Bad Economy
A plurality of the American public believes that young adults are having the toughest time of any age group in today’s economy—and a lopsided majority says it’s more difficult for today’s young adults than it was for their parents’ generation to pay for college, find a job, buy a home or save for the future. […]
Continue reading …Use Surveys to Assess Trust Between Senior Management And Employees
30/11/2011 Comments Off on Use Surveys to Assess Trust Between Senior Management And Employees
By Howard Deutsch Achieving high levels of trust between senior management and employees is essential for the sustainable success of any organization. The best leaders earn the respect and trust of the people they lead. Lack of trust between senior management and employees negatively impacts employee satisfaction, engagement and performance. It also impacts customers, competitiveness […]
Continue reading …Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
30/11/2011 Comments Off on Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
By Howard Deutsch – If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best to start by focusing on your employees first. Highly […]
Continue reading …How to Reduce Your Employee Stress in 8 Easy Steps
29/11/2011 Comments Off on How to Reduce Your Employee Stress in 8 Easy Steps
By Howard Deutsch Reducing employee stress could mean increasing profits and productivity. If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best […]
Continue reading …Employment Discrimination: Answers to Your Questions
27/11/2011 Comments Off on Employment Discrimination: Answers to Your Questions
By Elizabeth L. Riles By law, your employer may not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age (over 40), citizenship, pregnancy, or disability. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act and Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit discrimination based upon these factors. In California, the […]
Continue reading …Quick Links: U.S. DOL Resources For Job Seekers & The Unemployed
21/11/2011 Comments Off on Quick Links: U.S. DOL Resources For Job Seekers & The Unemployed
Quick Links Resources For Job Seekers & The Unemployed From The U.S. DOL This page provides links to information and services the Department of Labor (DOL) offers job seekers and the unemployed. We will continue to expand the links here based on your comments and feedback. Please, bookmark this page and come back often. Disability […]
Continue reading …Record Low Number of People Moving Reflects Lack of Jobs
17/11/2011 Comments Off on Record Low Number of People Moving Reflects Lack of Jobs
Bad times mean staying put. The percentage of people who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 ─ 11.6% ─ was the lowest recorded rate since 1948. when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting statistics on the movement of people in the United States. The rate, which was 20.2% in 1985, declined to a then-record low of […]
Continue reading …Migrant Workers Flock to India’s Kerala State Searching For Jobs
16/11/2011 Comments Off on Migrant Workers Flock to India’s Kerala State Searching For Jobs
India has it’s own issues with migrant workers as does China, the European Union and the United States. Economically, the India’s Kerala state presents a paradox. The state, where the Malayali language prdominates, has long been a source of migrant workers for the Arab Gulf states. Now Kerala is itself attracting migrant workers, who number […]
Continue reading …Links to Online Resources for Job Seekers and the Unemployed
06/10/2011 Comments Off on Links to Online Resources for Job Seekers and the UnemployedFind It! Resources for Job Seekers and the Unemployed On This Page Disability Resources Job & Training Information Layoff Resources Retirement & Health Benefits Statistical Information Wages & Work Hours Workplace Safety & Health This page provides a shortcut to information and services the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) offers job seekers. We will continue […]
Continue reading …America’s Sputtering Economy by the Numbers
26/09/2011 Comments Off on America’s Sputtering Economy by the Numbers
By Braden Goyette ProPublica America’s Sputtering Economy, by the Numbers. With increasing signs that the economy is laboring [2], most economists agree that a short-term infusion of spending, or an extension of this year’s temporary cut in Social Security taxes, could help fend off a new downturn. But whatever one thinks of the debt deal […]
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