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Tenure Up As Employees Stick With Their Jobs Longer
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Tenure Up As Employees Stick With Their Jobs Longer
Median job tenure is up as employees stick with their current employers longer, while the unemployment rate remains high and quality jobs scarce. In January 2012, the median number of years that workers had been with their current employer was 4.6 years, according to new numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is […]
Continue reading …Race Harassment Case: Racist Employees Costs WRS Compass $2.75 Million
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Race Harassment Case: Racist Employees Costs WRS Compass $2.75 Million
Race harassment can be costly for employers. Racist employees cost Tampa-based environmental cleanup company WRS Compass $2.75 million and a three-year nationwide consent decree to resolve a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) racial discrimination case. The EEOC’s suit against WRS Environment and Infrastructure, Inc., a WRS Compass subsidiary, involved seven black workers at its […]
Continue reading …Domestic Workers No Longer A Domestic Issue In Philippines
17/09/2012 Comments Off on Domestic Workers No Longer A Domestic Issue In Philippines
ILO News– Dumaguete City is one of the Philippines’ top destinations for divers and nature lovers. For Aileen Capacite Bulfa, however, it was not the perfect summer getaway. The daughter of a poor farmer, she moved to Dumaguete to become a domestic worker when she was 13. She tried to attend the first year of […]
Continue reading …Work Some Forgiveness Into Your Work
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Work Some Forgiveness Into Your Work
From Paul Smith’s blog Welcome To The Occupation — One of my most complicated tasks in Human Resources is to remind folks that we are all human. I think to most people most of the time, this could seem like a simple or maybe unnecessary task. However, it plays an enormous role in my conversations […]
Continue reading …Elder Care Crisis Is Everyone’s Business When Employees Double As Caregivers
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Elder Care Crisis Is Everyone’s Business When Employees Double As Caregivers
By R.W. Greene — The United States is in the midst an elderly population explosion that is creating a brewing elder care crisis. Two years ago, those aged 60 and older, made up slightly more than 18% of the population. That was only a couple of percentage points higher than 30 years earlier. But by […]
Continue reading …Elder Care Caregiver Stress Goes To Work As Employers Ignore Issue
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Elder Care Caregiver Stress Goes To Work As Employers Ignore Issue
By R.W. Greene — Employers are facing a massive elder care health crisis in coming years — but even if they are aware of the problem, few are doing anything about it. The crisis is the toll that elder care — looking after one’s aging parents — is placing on the nation’s workforce. The U.S. is […]
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Caregivers and Work: More working people provide full- or part-time caregiver duties for a loved one than ever before. Here’s a look at some facts about this major life responsibility and the realities of the working world. Facts About Caregivers o Two-thirds are women. o Studies show female caregivers are more likely than males to […]
Continue reading …Caregiver Protection Laws And State Employer Polices Need Improvement: AARP
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Caregiver Protection Laws And State Employer Polices Need Improvement: AARP
Caregiver protection laws are rare. As of 2012, only four states—Alaska, Connecticut, New Jersey and Oregon, plus the District of Columbia—have laws over and above federal laws protecting family caregivers and those proving elder care. The AARP report says additions to workplace discrimination laws are necessary to help family caregivers. The AARP recommends the following changes […]
Continue reading …Study Finds Workplace Discrimination Against Caregivers Growing
12/09/2012 Comments Off on Study Finds Workplace Discrimination Against Caregivers Growing
Workplace discrimination against caregivers is becoming commonplace as more employees must care for aging parents, a new report from the AARP, an advocacy group of older Americans. The report, “Protecting Family Caregivers from Employment Discrimination,” identifies workplace discrimination against workers with elder care responsibilities as an emerging trend. The report also highlights the limited legal […]
Continue reading …OSHA Cites Tyson Foods Neb. Beef Facility After Mechanic Crushed
07/09/2012 Comments Off on OSHA Cites Tyson Foods Neb. Beef Facility After Mechanic Crushed
A mechanic working at Tyson Foods Inc. Dakota City, Neb., beef slaughterhouse died after a piece of equipment, secured only a chain, fell and on him. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Tyson Foods Inc. for seven safety violations after an inspection at the company’s Dakota City beef processing facility, where a mechanic was […]
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