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How To Detect & Prevent Workplace Bullying, A Chronic Corporate Disease
08/10/2012 Comments Off on How To Detect & Prevent Workplace Bullying, A Chronic Corporate Disease
By RAKESH MALHOTRA— Stories of workplace bullying are commonplace throughout the United States. Some real-life examples: Mavis: “When I started there, I was told that someone had been acting in the position and had expected to get the job. This person continually undermined me and turned other staff against me. I endured 12 months of […]
Continue reading …Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Kauai Prosecuting Attorney’s Aloha Or Else Policy Costs Hawaiian County $120,000
Kauai County Hawaii’s top law enforcement officer may have broken more laws than she has enforced. Kauai County Prosecuting Attorney Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho broke federal law, according to the EEOC. According to published reports, Iseri-Carvalho and has also entangled the county in other lawsuits. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced a $120,000 settlement was reached […]
Continue reading …A 10-Year Decline In Wages For Most College Graduates
05/10/2012 Comments Off on A 10-Year Decline In Wages For Most College Graduates
By Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute— As the new State of Working America report shows, the last 10 years have been a lost decade for income, wealth and wage growth for most Americans. Perhaps a surprising part of this picture is that the trend of stagnant or falling wages for most workers includes the wages […]
Continue reading …Is HR Right For You? 10 Traits Of Human Resources Professionals
05/10/2012 Comments Off on Is HR Right For You? 10 Traits Of Human Resources Professionals
From Paul Smith’s Welcome to the Occupation blog- Is HR right for you? This was the title and subject of a small article in the Metro newspaper. (Click here for the online article.) Despite my skepticism, the article offered some realistic, albeit general, advice that I concurred. “Solid analytic and math skills“, “strong sense of ethics […]
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 …Top 10 Most Frequently Violated OSHA Workplace Safety Standards
02/10/2012 Comments Off on Top 10 Most Frequently Violated OSHA Workplace Safety Standards
Top 10 Most Frequently Violated OSHA Workplace Safety Standards for Fiscal 2011 (Oct. 1, 2010 to Sept. 30, 2011) The following is a list of the top 10 most frequently violated standards found following inspections of worksites by federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators. OSHA publishes this list to alert employers about these commonly […]
Continue reading …Quick Facts About High-Deductible Health Plans
28/09/2012 Comments Off on Quick Facts About High-Deductible Health Plans
By SHEFALI S. KULKARNI, KHN— High-deductible health care plans are no longer a health care insurance novelty—they are becoming mainstream. According to the industry trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, the number of people with high-deductible health plan coverage reached more than 11.4 million in January 2011, up from 10 million in January 2010. A survey from the […]
Continue reading …Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
27/09/2012 Comments Off on Record One-in-Five Households Has Student Loan Debt, Burden Greatest On Young, Poor
By Richard Fry, Pew Research Center— Nearly one out of five (19%) of U.S. households owed student loan debt in 2010. That’s more than double the share two decades earlier and a significant rise from the 15% that owed such debt in 2007, just prior to the start of the Great Recession, according to a […]
Continue reading …More Than 2,000 Chinese Employees Riot At Foxconn iPhone Factory
24/09/2012 Comments Off on More Than 2,000 Chinese Employees Riot At Foxconn iPhone Factory
About 2,000 Chinese employees of Foxconn Technology Group, which makes the Apple iPhone, reportedly rioted into the early hours of Monday, 24 September 2012, forcing the plant where they work to shut down. As many as 5,000 heavily armed police may have been involved in stopping the disturbance at the factory in the northern Chinese city of […]
Continue reading …Overqualified? 5 Ways To Get The Job
22/09/2012 Comments Off on Overqualified? 5 Ways To Get The Job
From Vickie Elmer’s Glassdoor blog– Sometime yet this year, you or someone you know is likely to be told they are overqualified for a job. The speaker may be a recruiter or a friend, a decision-maker or a drainer of hopefulness. And when they say or hint at the overqualified label, they may mean something […]
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