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OSHA Cites Plains Gas Solutions After Explosion Severely Injures Worker
07/09/2012 Comments Off on OSHA Cites Plains Gas Solutions After Explosion Severely Injures Worker
An explosion and fire at a liquid natural gas processing plant that seriously burned a worker could cost Plains Gas Solutions a $110,000 fine under a proposed settlement Occupational Safety and Health Administration, OSHA. OSHA cited Plains Gas Solutions in Eunice, La., on 27 August 2012 for one willful and seven serious violations involving OSHA’s […]
Continue reading …EEOC: Fry’s Fined $2.3 Million For Sexual Harassment, Sexting Manager
06/09/2012 Comments Off on EEOC: Fry’s Fined $2.3 Million For Sexual Harassment, Sexting Manager
Ignoring sexual harassment and then retaliating against employees who report it can be very expensive. Just look at the example of retailer Fry’s Electronics. In one of the largest fines in suit of this type, Fry’s Electronics has greed to pay $2.3 million to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment […]
Continue reading …Health Care Reform After The Supreme Court Ruling – A Consumer’s Guide
27/08/2012 Comments Off on Health Care Reform After The Supreme Court Ruling – A Consumer’s Guide
By Mary Agnes Carey, KHN Staff Writer– The Supreme Court Thursday, 28 June 2012, upheld the 2010 federal health care reform law, dismissing the challenge by states to the law’s requirement that individuals get insurance. The justices, however, did give states the right to opt out of a critical provision requiring them to expand Medicaid […]
Continue reading …Tuesday 17 April Is Equal Pay Day For U.S. Women
17/04/2012 Comments Off on Tuesday 17 April Is Equal Pay Day For U.S. Women
Tuesday, 17 April is Equal Pay Day. This date symbolizes how far women in the United States must work into 2012 to earn what men doing similar work earned in 2011. When the President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to […]
Continue reading …KHN – Health Care On Trial, Supreme Court Arguments Day 1
26/03/2012 Comments Off on KHN – Health Care On Trial, Supreme Court Arguments Day 1
From the Kasier Health News — A Guide To The Supreme Court Arguments, Day 1 The first day’s arguments focused on the Anti-Injunction Act and whether the court can rule on the case before a penalty is imposed on those who do not have health insurance. KHN’s reporter inside the court, Stuart Taylor, tells Jackie […]
Continue reading …Judge Rules For Lesbian In Health Insurance Case
23/02/2012 Comments Off on Judge Rules For Lesbian In Health Insurance Case
A federal judge has ruled same-sex couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual couples, in a decision that has implications for employee health insurance benefits. Ninth Circuit U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey S. White ruled Wednesday, 22 February 2012, that the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional, declaring that the federal […]
Continue reading …EEOC Sues Suffolk, NY, Laundry For Sexual Harassment
10/02/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Sues Suffolk, NY, Laundry For Sexual Harassment
For years a manager at Suffolk Laundry Services in Southampton, N.Y., allegedly physically and verbally sexually harassed multiple female laundry workers at the facility. During the course of several years, the manager regularly touched women on their buttocks, hips, backs, forcibly kissed them, and made comments about their appearance and body parts, the U.S. Equal […]
Continue reading …Grain Company Fined After Two Teens Lose Legs
09/02/2012 Comments Off on Grain Company Fined After Two Teens Lose Legs
By R. DAVID WENDEL — Lax safety precautions at a Kremlin, Okla., grain elevator cost two 17-year-old workers their legs in an August 2011 accident, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA has cited Zaloudek Grain Co. with four serious safety violations following an incident involving two 17-year-olds who both suffered leg amputations after […]
Continue reading …EEOC Discrimination Cases, Settlements Hit Record High In 2011
07/02/2012 Comments Off on EEOC Discrimination Cases, Settlements Hit Record High In 2011
By LAURA LIEBECK– The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws, last year handled a record number of cases alleging workplace discrimination and secured a record high financial settlement total for those cases. The EEOC’s oversight covers discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, […]
Continue reading …Pepsi Pays $3 Million to Settle EEOC Discrimination Claim
05/02/2012 Comments Off on Pepsi Pays $3 Million to Settle EEOC Discrimination Claim
By ROBERT SCALLY and R. DAVID WENDEL– Pepsi Beverages will pay $3.13 million and provide job offers and training to settle charges of racial discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Minneapolis office. More than 300 African Americans were affected by a criminal background check policy that disproportionately excluded black applicants from permanent employment […]
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- 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