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Resources: How to Handle Workplace Grief
02/12/2011 Comments Off on Resources: How to Handle Workplace Grief
A 2003 study by the Grief Recovery Institute in Sherman Oaks, Calif., found that employee grieving and heartbreak costs U.S. employers $75 billion a year in lost productivity, absenteeism, and increased errors and accidents. Death of a loved one is the most costly grief incident for businesses, accounting for $37.5 billion per year in losses […]
Continue reading …VPP Failure? OSHA Lacks Proof Voluntary Protection Programs Work
01/12/2011 Comments Off on VPP Failure? OSHA Lacks Proof Voluntary Protection Programs Work
By Chris Hamby, iWatchNews, Center for Public Integrity — Almost 30 years after workplace safety regulators decided to encourage a select number of companies to police themselves, the basic question – does it work? – remains unanswered. Supporters can’t prove that a softer, voluntary approach is more effective at making workplaces safer. Some critics suspect the concept […]
Continue reading …Protecting Construction Workers From Hazards, New OSHA Animated Educational Videos Show How
01/12/2011 Comments Off on Protecting Construction Workers From Hazards, New OSHA Animated Educational Videos Show HowThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration has released 12 educational videos about potential hazards in the construction industry. The educational videos are easy to understand, short segments and geared to employers and workers. Each year, nearly 800 construction workers die on the job; one in every five workplace fatalities occurs within the construction industry. The […]
Continue reading …Database of Fatal Accidents Incomplete OSHA Acknowledges
01/12/2011 Comments Off on Database of Fatal Accidents Incomplete OSHA Acknowledges
By Chris Hamby, iWatch News,Center for Public Integrity — At an Ohio chemical plant, an explosion launched pieces of metal that struck and killed a worker. At a Pennsylvania steel mill, equipment crushed a worker to death. At an Oklahoma oil refinery, a flash fire fatally burned a worker. Each death occurred at a plant deemed a […]
Continue reading …Use Surveys to Assess Trust Between Senior Management And Employees
30/11/2011 Comments Off on Use Surveys to Assess Trust Between Senior Management And Employees
By Howard Deutsch Achieving high levels of trust between senior management and employees is essential for the sustainable success of any organization. The best leaders earn the respect and trust of the people they lead. Lack of trust between senior management and employees negatively impacts employee satisfaction, engagement and performance. It also impacts customers, competitiveness […]
Continue reading …Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
30/11/2011 Comments Off on Employee Engagement Surveys Boost Customer Satisfaction
By Howard Deutsch – If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best to start by focusing on your employees first. Highly […]
Continue reading …Infographic: Where In The World Are American Jobs?
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Infographic: Where In The World Are American Jobs?
Where in the world are American jobs? And who do we blame for them disappearing? This infographic gives you the answers:
Continue reading …Citigroup SEC Settlement Trashed By Federal Judge
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Citigroup SEC Settlement Trashed By Federal Judge
By Marian Wang, ProPublica – When the Securities and Exchange Commission struck a deal with Citigroup over a failed security that the bank sold to investors, we asked whether regulators had handed Citigroup too sweet a deal. Today [28 Nov. 2011] in Manhattan, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff appeared to reach that very conclusion: “If the allegations of the Complaint […]
Continue reading …How to Reduce Your Employee Stress in 8 Easy Steps
29/11/2011 Comments Off on How to Reduce Your Employee Stress in 8 Easy Steps
By Howard Deutsch Reducing employee stress could mean increasing profits and productivity. If you need to increase your company’s competitiveness and profit, where should you start? Should you focus on your employees first, or should you start by focusing on your customers first? In reality, you need to do both. It is almost always best […]
Continue reading …Five Costly Recession-Related Employee Retention Mistakes
29/11/2011 Comments Off on Five Costly Recession-Related Employee Retention Mistakes
By Ross Blake — Even though it’s an “employer’s market” with millions of capable people looking for work due to the recession, many employers are making these five costly employee retention mistakes. Mistake #1: Assuming employees “won’t dare leave now due to the recession.” Many organizations have discontinued their employee retention programs, figuring they aren’t needed […]
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