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Report: New iPhone, Old Abuses: Have Working Conditions At Foxconn In China Improved?
22/09/2012 Comments Off on Report: New iPhone, Old Abuses: Have Working Conditions At Foxconn In China Improved?
A new report from a watchdog group in China suggests that working conditions at Foxconn, the company that makes Apple’s iPhone,have not improved. Reports of abuse, dangerous working conditions, forced unpaid labor and worker suicides have drawn attention to Foxconn In Sept. 2012, researchers from Hong Kong-based organization Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Calif. Hospital In Million-Dollar Settlement For Discrimination Against 70 Filipino-Americans
21/09/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Calif. Hospital In Million-Dollar Settlement For Discrimination Against 70 Filipino-Americans
Targeted discrimination toward Filipino-American is costing a central California hospital nearly a million dollars and three years of federal supervision and anti-discrimination training, according to the EEOC. Delano Regional Medical Center (DRMC), an acute care hospital in California’s San Joaquin Valley, will pay $975,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) […]
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 …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 …Execs Reveal 4Q Top Level Hiring Plans, More Confident In Future
10/09/2012 Comments Off on Execs Reveal 4Q Top Level Hiring Plans, More Confident In Future
Twelve percent of U.S. executives say they will be hiring professional-level staff in the fourth quarter fo 2012, according to the Robert Half Professional Employment Report. More than three quarters, 77%, of executives surveyed said they will will make no staff changes. That isn’t universal. Of U.S. executives surveyed, 17% said they will add professional-level staff […]
Continue reading …Secret Ballot Laws Could Create Constitutional Conflicts, Judge Says
08/09/2012 Comments Off on Secret Ballot Laws Could Create Constitutional Conflicts, Judge Says
A federal judge found that an Arizona state constitutional amendment controlling how employees choose a union – the so-called “secret ballot” amendment – may be preempted by the National Labor Relations Act. Whether the Arizona legislation will conflict with the NRLA will depend on how the amendment is actually used. U.S. District Court Judge Frederick […]
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