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Chocolate In The Workplace: Working In Candy Land
15/02/2013 Comments Off on Chocolate In The Workplace: Working In Candy Land
By RICK BELL, Workforce.com— Given the dismal state of today’s daily newspapers, there are still two things you can count on anytime you give one a read. Whether you are in Bend, Bugtussle or Boston, you’re destined to find a Family Circus comic and at least one advice column offering common-sense solutions to every personal […]
Continue reading …No End in Sight To Wage-And-Hour Class Actions, Law Firm Reports
15/02/2013 Comments Off on No End in Sight To Wage-And-Hour Class Actions, Law Firm Reports
Wage-and-hour litigation remains the fastest-growing area of employment litigation, according to the law firm Crowell & Moring. According to a 2011 NERA Economic Consulting study, employers paid an average of $5.8 million to settle a wage-and-hour case. There is some evidence that such settlement amounts have declined somewhat in recent years. However, the average employer […]
Continue reading …DOL Fact Sheet 13 Employment Relationship Under The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
14/02/2013 Comments Off on DOL Fact Sheet 13 Employment Relationship Under The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
DOL Fact Sheet 13 Employment Relationship Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) This fact sheet provides general information concerning the meaning of “employment relationship” and the significance of that determination in applying provisions of the FLSA. FLSA Characteristics An employment relationship under the FLSA must be distinguished from a strictly contractual one. Such a […]
Continue reading …ILO: Tougher Measures Needed To Curb Forced Labor
08/02/2013 Comments Off on ILO: Tougher Measures Needed To Curb Forced Labor
ILO News— A new ILO report highlights the need for tougher measures to combat forced labor, which claims 21 million victims worldwide. Men, women and children worldwide are coerced into jobs they can’t leave, trapped in debt bondage, trafficked for sexual exploitation and even born into slavery. Efforts to prevent, identify and prosecute cases of […]
Continue reading …ManpowerGroup: Engage Unemployed Youth To Ease Skills Shortage
06/02/2013 Comments Off on ManpowerGroup: Engage Unemployed Youth To Ease Skills Shortage
ManpowerGroup, a World Economic Forum (WEF) strategic partner, is promoting coordinated action in four key to help solve a global skills shortage chronic levels of youth unemployment worldwide. Youth unemployment and skills training were high on the agenda at the recednt WEF Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Global staffing firm ManpowerGroup is a $22 billion […]
Continue reading …Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects
05/02/2013 Comments Off on Skills Mismatches Hurt Global Job Creation Prospects
ILO News— Skills mismatches are driving up global unemployment. The Great Recession forced millions of workers to seek new jobs, but they often lack skills that employers are seeking. Several developed economies are seeing increasing numbers of job vacancies but their unemployment rates are not going down. What is happening is that many of the workers […]
Continue reading …How Will Business Build Consumers Trust In 2013?
05/02/2013 Comments Off on How Will Business Build Consumers Trust In 2013?
Global onfidence in business is low. The effects of banking scandals, the resulting global financial crisis and Great Recession continue to reverberate across the globe. Royal Bank of Scotland is facing more fines over it manipulation of the LIBOR, we are once again reminded of the scandals that have served to further erode public trust […]
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Nonprofit Counterpart International has joined the UN Global Compact, the world’s largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiativive www.counterpart.org. “Engaging with the UN Global Compact is a great opportunity and a reflection of our values,” says Joan Parker, Counterpart’s president and CEO. “This initiative allows Counterpart to do what it does best: forge meaningful partnerships to drive sustainable […]
Continue reading …B Corporations: Worker-Owned Home Care Coops 1st In Their Industry
04/02/2013 Comments Off on B Corporations: Worker-Owned Home Care Coops 1st In Their Industry
Two home care agencies are taking the lead in publicly committing to the triple bottom line—people, planet, and profits—through their certification as B Corporations. The Bronx-based Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) and Home Care Associates (HCA) of Philadelphia, two worker-owned, cooperative home care agencies, are the nation’s first home care companies to earn B Corporation certification. In United States […]
Continue reading …Hiring On Hold At Many Small Businesses, Cutting More Than Hiring
01/02/2013 Comments Off on Hiring On Hold At Many Small Businesses, Cutting More Than Hiring
Small business isn’t hiring: That’s one reason the U.S. employment situation isn’t improving. Nobody wants to hire new employees if they don’t have to. Small business owners lack the confidence the current state of the economy to take on new employees. Many businesses are also operating with fewer employees, having been forced to do so in […]
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