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Amazon settles with tech workers fired for Corona virus, climate criticism
SEATTLE — Amazon settled a long-running dispute with two former tech workers it fired after they criticized the company for its climate policies and warehouse safety record, avoiding a hearing that would have put a spotlight on strained relations with some employees. The e-commerce giant was set to face Emily Cunningham and Maren Costa in […]
Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical Records
29/09/2021 Comments Off on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical RecordsBy Isaac Arnsdor, ProPublica — Former President Donald Trump empowered associates from his private club to pursue a plan for the Department of Veterans Affairs to monetize patient data, according to documents newly released by congressional investigators. As ProPublica first reported in 2018, a trio based at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort weighed in on policy and […]
Continue reading …Cal/OSHA Encourages Following New Guidance On Face Masks Indoors
17/09/2021 Comments Off on Cal/OSHA Encourages Following New Guidance On Face Masks Indoors
Aug. 25, 2021 — In addition to the requirements of the COVID-19 Prevention Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) and as a best practice, CalOSHA encourages employers and workers to follow the recent update from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) recommending that all individuals wear face coverings while indoors regardless of vaccination status. CDPH recently […]
Continue reading …First COVID Related Remote Work ADA Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By EEOC
15/09/2021 Comments Off on First COVID Related Remote Work ADA Discrimination Lawsuit Filed By EEOC
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC, has filed a remote work ADA discrimination lawsuit in what has been called a first-of-its-kind case that could decide businesses’ obligation to allow employees to work from home as a disability accommodation. ISS Facility Services, Inc., a Denmark-based workplace experience and facility management company with U.S. headquarters in […]
Continue reading …Delaying injured employee’s training was reasonable accommodation
30/08/2021 Comments Off on Delaying injured employee’s training was reasonable accommodation
By Marjorie Johnson, J.D. — An employer provided a reasonable accommodation to a recently hired employee who had suffered an ankle injury by allowing her to delay her training until several days after her temporary restrictions were lifted. It was not required to instead have a trainer come down to the first floor to provide […]
Continue reading …Insurers no longer waiving costs for COVID-19 treatment, employer waivers may also expire
27/08/2021 Comments Off on Insurers no longer waiving costs for COVID-19 treatment, employer waivers may also expireBy Rebecca Mayo, J.D. and WK Editorial Staff — Testing and vaccination for COVID-19 must be provided at no cost to individuals, however there is no federal mandate requiring insurers to waive out-of-pocket treatment costs for COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, the majority of private health plans waived out-of-pocket costs for COVID-19 treatment, but a survey […]
Continue reading …Unvaccinated Employees Face Increasing Pressure From Employers — News Roundup
25/08/2021 Comments Off on Unvaccinated Employees Face Increasing Pressure From Employers — News RoundupUnvaccinated employees are facing increasing pressure from employers to get vaccinated for COVID-19 or face firing. Employers Apply Different Requirements to Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Workers From SHRM – Some employers are applying selected workplace rules only to unvaccinated workers in an effort to protect employees from the COVID-19 delta variant, but are inadvertently intensifying conflicts […]
Continue reading …Ridgewood Decision – In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are
25/08/2021 Comments Off on Ridgewood Decision – In Case You Forgot How Anti-Union Trump’s Judges Are
In 2019, I wrote about how the NLRB’s decision in Ridgewood Health Care Centertook away one of the few effective remedies for employer misconduct. This was a case where a new employer took over a business and refused to hire the predecessor’s employees to avoid a bargaining obligation with the workers’ union. The old remedy […]
Continue reading …Americans With Disabilities Act Anniversary July 26, 2021
26/07/2021 Comments Off on Americans With Disabilities Act Anniversary July 26, 2021
The Americans With Disabilities Act Turns 31 Today. On July 26, 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush signed into law the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodations, commercial facilities, telecommunications, and state and local government services. This Facts for Features provides a demographic snapshot of the […]
Continue reading …Video game company Activision Blizzard sued over ‘frat boy culture’ allegations
22/07/2021 Comments Off on Video game company Activision Blizzard sued over ‘frat boy culture’ allegationsCaliforniaVideo game company Activision Blizzard sued over ‘frat boy culture’ allegationsCalifornia’s DFEH files suit after investigation reveals discrimination against women Sarah Betancourt@
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