Workers With Disabilities Add Business Benefits
Companies that employ people with disabilities reap numerous benefits. Active recruiting and retention of employees with disabilities, including veterans, can both significantly expand the pool of...
View ArticleImports Helped Kill The Twinkie, Hostess Brands Workers Get Assistance
By WideWorldOfWork.com— Imports of cheap baked goods helped kill the Twinkie and the Ding Dong. A U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found that increased imports of baked products contributed...
View ArticleOffshore Outsourcing Firms Are Top 10 Users Of H-1B Guest Worker Program
Immigration yield for top 10 H-1B employers, fiscal 2012 Rank Employer Approved initial I-129 petitions for H-1B PERM applications for H-1B workers Immigration yield Significant offshoring* 1...
View ArticleThe Case For Raising The Federal Minimum Wage
Despite critics and naysayers the federal minimum wage in will celebrate its 75th anniversary in October. Some economists and many conservatives despise the federal minimum wage, but it has proven both...
View ArticleMinimum Wage Increase Would Give Up To 28 Million Workers A Raise
Increasing the minimum wage would give as many as 28 million American workers a raise. According to the Economic Policy Institute, raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $9.80 per hour would...
View ArticleMinimum Wage: A Graphic Story
Raising The Minimum Wage: The Graphic Story Of The Minimum Wage And The People Who Earn It In The United States. The federal minimum wage was last increased on July 24, 2009, when it rose from $6.55 to...
View ArticleRecessions Are Killer, Cutting Short Older Workers’ Lives, Study Finds
Recessions can be fatal for older workers. A new study shows recession’s toll on health and reveals unexpected advantages of Social Security and Medicare for older workers, those in their 50s and 60s....
View ArticleMisclassifying Employees To Avoid Health Care Reform In 2014 Can Backfire
While the Affordable Healthcare Act doesn’t go into full effect until 2014, the employee count to determine which employers meet the threshold of 50 full-time employees will be based on 2013 numbers....
View ArticleThe Strong Case For Teleworking
By JON MESSENGER and LAURA ADDATI— There’s been much debate about the merits – and demerits – of teleworking, since Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, issued a ban on working from home. According to a...
View ArticleInsurers Battle For Federal Employees Health Care Coverage
By PHIL GALEWITZ, KHN Staff Writer— Two of the nation’s leading forces in health insurance — UnitedHealthcare and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – faced off Thursday before Congress in a...
View ArticleU.S. Lags World in Temp Worker Protections
By Michael Grabell ProPublica– For nearly six years, Limber Herrera has toiled as a temp worker doing the same work for the same company in Mira Loma, Calif. About 40 hours a week, he unloads shipping...
View ArticleSurprising Answers: Who Really Pays For Health Care
By Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health News staff writer– More than eight million people have signed up for private, often subsidized health insurance under Affordable Care Act, President Obama said in April....
View ArticleTimekeeping Software Helps Companies Cheat Their Workers
By Elizabeth C. Tippett, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon — There are a lot of ways employers can manipulate your time using timekeeping software, some of which are legal and...
View ArticleEmployee Turnover Concerns 91% of HR Leaders Worried About Churn
With employees having more job opportunities to choose from, 91% of HR leaders are increasingly concerned about employee turnover in the coming months, according to a survey of 572 HR leaders in July...
View Article44 Percent Of Millennial Employees Say Pandemic Delayed Major Life Changes
As open enrollment approaches, new MetLife survey shows millennials are gearing up for major milestones after 44 percent say the pandemic delayed their life plans. September 28, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern...
View ArticleCEO-Worker Pay Ratios: CEO – Worker Pay Gap Resources
Since 2018, U.S. publicly held corporations have had to annually report the ratio between their CEO and median worker compensation. Corporate lobby groups and allied Republicans fought hard to repeal,...
View ArticleMassachusetts Nurses Applaud St. Vincent Nurses for Confront Delta Surge,...
WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 1, 2021 — As the St. Vincent nurses strike approaches the seventh month mark, local nurses and leaders representing more than 3,000 nurses working in hospitals throughout the...
View ArticleSutter Delta Healthcare Workers to Strike Over Short Staffing, Unfair Labor...
Citing massive understaffing, difficult working conditions, and a series of unfair labor practices, more than 350 healthcare workers at Sutter Delta Medical Center in Antioch will strike October 4th –...
View Article20,000 Health Care Heroes Work Without a Contract; Kaiser Sits on Billions;...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Thousands of registered nurses and health care workers are caring for Kaiser Permanente patients without a union contract for the first time in decades as of...
View ArticleDeere, UAW Reach Tentative Agreement
Deere & Company and the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) have reached a tentative agreement on a new six-year labor agreement...
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