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By JIM MORRIS and ADITHYA SAMBAMURTHY, Center for Public Integrity, MIRA LOMA, Calif.– Lawyers alleging wage theft from mostly immigrant Latino contract workers at a Southern California warehouse complex took steps to add Wal-Mart as a defendant in an ongoing federal lawsuit. The move is expected to draw the nation’s largest retailer into a case in which it had, […]
Continue reading …From the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press— Americans are hearing less negative news about the nation’s economy than they were just a month ago. Perceptions of news about other economic sectors – notably, the job situation – have improved as well. Most Americans continue to hear a mix of good and […]
Continue reading …There’s a lot restless workers worldwide. More than half (53%) of the respondents of the Kelly Global Workforce Index (KGWI) survey believe that to develop their skills and advance their careers, it is more important to change employers, rather than remain with their existing employer, according to international staffing firm Kelly Services. The KGWI examines issues of […]
Continue reading …Social media has gone to work to stay and many companies are still trying to figure out what to do about it. Some forward-looking industries are embracing social media. Others are at least starting to put policies in place to make sure the use of social media by employees remains appropriate. A smaller group hopes […]
Continue reading …Two new reports show the growing influence of social media and the Internet on the workplace. In the U.S., 75% of employees access social media at least once a day from their personal mobile devices while at work. More than half of U.S. companies do not block access to the Internet. These are some of […]
Continue reading …By FRED SCHULTE, Center for Public Integrity— Four Republican House leaders want federal officials to suspend payments to hospitals and doctors who switch from paper to electronic health records, arguing the program may be wasting billions of tax dollars and doing little to improve the quality of medical care. In an 4 Oct. 2012 letter to Health […]
Continue reading …By Lawrence Mishel, Economic Policy Institute— As the new State of Working America report shows, the last 10 years have been a lost decade for income, wealth and wage growth for most Americans. Perhaps a surprising part of this picture is that the trend of stagnant or falling wages for most workers includes the wages […]
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