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ILO News– There are few jobs to be had in the depressed Mexican town of Fronteras. So the “tough women” – as they are now known – have taken matters into their own hands, turning junk into a successful enterprise. Their co-operative near the US border is often cited as an example of determined entrepreneurship […]
Continue reading …Chosen by a panel of judges that included MythBusters co-hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, here’s a closer look at the U.S. Department of Labor’s winners of its Worker Safety and Health App Challenge 2013. Prizes totaling $30,000 are being awarded to four entrants who submitted tools that best demonstrate the importance of recognizing and […]
Continue reading …TV’s MythBusters, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, are once again using science and engineering to help keep America’s youth safe at work. Savage and Hyneman, cohosts of Discovery Channel’s popular MythBusters, were among a panel to judges that selected winners of the U.S. Department of Labor’s “Safety in the Workplace Innovator Award,” the “Safety and […]
Continue reading …By CHRIS HAMBY, Center for Public Integrity— With her resignation this week, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis leaves behind a department advocates say has adopted a renewed focus on enforcing worker safety laws but been unable to push through a number of long-sought regulations. The first Hispanic woman to hold the top post at a Cabinet-level agency, […]
Continue reading …By JAY HANCOCK, Kaiser Health News— Policymakers took heart from another year of relatively slow public health care spending growth in 2011, documented by government statisticians and disclosed in a report released Monday, January 7, 2012. But one aspect of moderating public health expenditures — and the only category showing outright decline — could cost more than it saves. Hit by recession […]
Continue reading …Discrimination Claims The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission in Canada says that one in ten workplace complaints of discrimination is related to pregnancy. Pregnancy-related discrimination claims in the United States have jumped by 35 per cent in the last decade. Since 2001, US courts have paid out $150 million in damages in pregnancy discrimination cases. ILO […]
Continue reading …By FRED SCHULTE, Center for Public Integrity— Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and doing little to improve the quality of medical care. In an 4 Oct. 2012 letter to Health […]
Continue reading …Under the Affordable Care Act, health insurers and group health plans will provide the 180 million Americans who have private insurance with clear, consistent and comparable information about their health care plan benefits and coverage. Specifically, the regulations will ensure consumers have access to two forms that will help them understand and evaluate their health […]
Continue reading …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 …Your 401(k) has retirement savings plan been costing you money. How much? Until now it was difficult, if not impossible to tell for sure. Now, for the first time, you can find out exactly how much you are paying for 401(k) plan. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced a new […]
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