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Fewer On The Job Fatalities In The United States In 2011
20/09/2012 Comments Off on Fewer On The Job Fatalities In The United States In 2011
The number of on the job fatalities was slightly lower in 2011 than 2010, according to a new government report. During 2011, 4,609 workers died from work-related injuries, down slightly from a final count of 4,690 in 2010. The statistics are preliminary results of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries released […]
Continue reading …EBSA Launches 401(k) Retirement Savings Fee Disclosure Website
19/09/2012 Comments Off on EBSA Launches 401(k) Retirement Savings Fee Disclosure Website
Your 401(k) has retirement savings plan been costing you money. How much? Until now it was difficult, if not impossible to tell for sure. Now, for the first time, you can find out exactly how much you are paying for 401(k) plan. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration has announced a new […]
Continue reading …Study Finds 99% Of American Workers Get Decade Of Pain, Top 1% Net All The Income Gain
19/09/2012 Comments Off on Study Finds 99% Of American Workers Get Decade Of Pain, Top 1% Net All The Income Gain
How well is the American economy providing acceptable growth in living standards and income for most households? Economic Policy Institute’s The State of Working America, 12th Edition looks broadly at available data and concludes that the answer is simply “not well at all.” This is not because the economy has failed to grow, on average. […]
Continue reading …Hinduja Global Solutions Buys Deloitte’s Hospital Back Office Outsourcing Business
18/09/2012 Comments Off on Hinduja Global Solutions Buys Deloitte’s Hospital Back Office Outsourcing Business
The U.S. subsidiary of business process outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) is buying the health care back office business of Deloitte Consulting Extended Business Services. HGS expects to expand its outsourcing services to U.S. hospitals. The business that HGS is buying consists of accounts receivable processing services and insurance eligibility verification services. Hinduja Global […]
Continue reading …Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
13/09/2012 Comments Off on Ford Adds 1,200 Jobs In Michigan, Part Of $16 Billion Investment Creating 12,000 U.S. Jobs
Ford will add 1,200 new hourly jobs and invest $555 million to equip a new state-of-the-art body and paint shop capable of producing multiple vehicles at its plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Ford is taking over management the former AutoAlliance International plant and is upgrading the Flat Rock Assembly Plant to include a state-of-the-art, fully […]
Continue reading …Working in America: Having A Secure Job Is A Path To The Middle Class
08/09/2012 Comments Off on Working in America: Having A Secure Job Is A Path To The Middle Class
By Wendy Wang, Pew Research Center–Americans believe that having a secure job is by far the most important requirement for being in the middle class, easily trumping homeownership and a college education, according to a new nationwide Pew Research Center survey of 2,508 adults. Nearly nine-in-ten adults (86%) say a person needs a secure job […]
Continue reading …Working In America: Job Security Important To The Middle Class
08/09/2012 Comments Off on Working In America: Job Security Important To The Middle ClassBy Wendy Wang, Pew Research Center– The value Americans place on having a secure job is underscored by findings from the same Pew Research survey that show that losing a job is associated not just with economic difficulties, but also with stress and unhappiness. In the Pew Research survey, 15% of respondents said they lost their job […]
Continue reading …Youth Labor Force In U.S. Up In July 2012, More Kids Had Summer Jobs
07/09/2012 Comments Off on Youth Labor Force In U.S. Up In July 2012, More Kids Had Summer Jobs
America’s labor force was more youthful than usual this summer. More kids had summer jobs in the United States during July 2012, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 21 August 2012. Youth employment in the United States rose by 2.1 million to 19.5 million. The youth labor force -16- to 24-year-olds working or actively looking […]
Continue reading …May Day: Labor’s International Holiday Was Made In Chicago
03/09/2012 Comments Off on May Day: Labor’s International Holiday Was Made In Chicago
The first day of May commemorates commemorates International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, and is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and observed unofficially in numerous other nations. The day is of special significance to international labor and left-wing movements, but the holiday has it roots in a violent massacre that […]
Continue reading …Workers Died Establishing Labor Day in the USA
03/09/2012 Comments Off on Workers Died Establishing Labor Day in the USA
What is now a day off in the United States was born directly out of the deaths of workers at the hands of their employers and the government. Labor Day in the United States was first observed on 5 Sept. 1882, by the Central Labor Union of New York. Labor Day as a national holiday was […]
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