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Sacramento Bee
May 16, 2012
Jerry Brown's plan to restructure the state workweek mean for state workers and the public? Is it a good idea or a bad idea?
MarketWatch (press release)
May 16, 2012
BRAMPTON,
Ontario, May 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- UFCW
Canada has applied to represent 60
workers at a Remco warehouse that exclusively supplies to H&M retail stores.
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
May 16, 2012
Much more than a static resume, it centers on building a visual portfolio of a
worker's goals and accomplishments. WorkSimple captures the success an employee produces throughout the workday and helps their co-
workers and managers see him or her for ...
Boston.com
May 16, 2012
An Attleboro, Mass., woman is praising the city's trash collection company after its workers helped her dig through mountains of stinking garbage to find five valuable rings she inadvertently threw away, including her engagement and wedding bands.
Herald & Review
May 16, 2012
Lill headed toward the center of the sorting floor - an area workers call "the belly" - to investigate the odor. Then he smelled it - a strong chemical stench he couldn't identify.
Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2012
About 2800 Santa Monica customers of Southern
California Edison lost power early Wednesday afternoon when construction
workers accidentally hit underground power cables. The outage, which prompted Santa Monica High
school to dismiss classes early, ...
Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2012
Houston (Reuters) - Two
workers were hurt in an explosion at a hydraulic fracturing tank site in south
Texas early on Wednesday, a sheriff's dispatcher said.
ABC News
May 16, 2012
However,
worker advocates say greater
education and outreach is needed as employers continue to discriminate against the mature workforce.
Reuters
May 16, 2012
By Lily Kuo | WASHINGTON May 16 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of female immigrant
Farm Workers in the United States are at risk of sexual violence and harassment, the organization
Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday.
Washington Post
May 16, 2012
Christopher Roos, a manager of the Teamsters local that represents workers at the warehouse, said he and other employees are upset by the site, which he said has opened even more wounds.
Boston.com
May 16, 2012
By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Amidst stalled contract negotiations over
health care, safety, and staffing issues, dozens of
workers have been locked out of the Pilgrim
nuclear power Station in Plymouth as the plant's owner,
Entergy Corp., is barring all ...
Chicago Tribune
May 16, 2012
Two employees of a
Chicago Heights bakery are suing co-
workers over a $118 million Mega Millions jackpot, alleging they were unfairly left out of the winnings.
Wall Street Journal
May 16, 2012
Last week, the ad-hoc group of passenger agents had argued in court that the same section of the Bankruptcy Code that protects union workers should protect the agents, even though no collective-bargaining agreement is in effect.
Daily News & Analysis
May 16, 2012
By Paras K Jha | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA The prayers of Nirmala, wife of Ram Parvez - a
worker stranded at Sumbe cement plant in
Angola were finally answered on Tuesday.
Youngstown Vindicator
May 16, 2012
Two Mahoning Valley residents have been convicted of charges related to defrauding Ohio's workers'-compensation system.
STLtoday.com
May 16, 2012
The bill on co-worker lawsuits also leaves the fate of the Second Injury Fund unresolved. The fund pays benefits to people with disabilities who sustain injuries at their jobs.
Daily Mail
May 16, 2012
Despite the falling number of sick days, the ONS figures show public sector workers continue to take more sick days than those in the private sector.
Channel News Asia
May 16, 2012
By Joanne Chan | Posted: 16 May 2012 1602 hrs
Singapore: The
workers' Party candidate for Hougang, Png Eng Huat, said he's running a "no-frills and low key, ground" campaign.
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
May 16, 2012
1 in 3 young
workers are underemployed,
Gallup economy reports on May 9, 2012. This means that young adults are more than twice as likely to be underemployed than older adults, making it difficult for the up-and-coming generations to find a firm ...
Reuters
May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican in the Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislation to raise the number of temporary visas for skilled technical workers from foreign countries, but prospects of passage this year could be clouded by election-year ...
ReporterNews.com
May 16, 2012
By Brennan K. Peel Abilene postal
workers will picket in front of the downtown post office Friday to urge passers-by to contact federal
politicians to argue against closing the Abilene Customer Service Mail Processing Center.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 16, 2012
workers at eight Twin Cities hospitals could be off their jobs later this month in a temporary strike over a new contract. A measure authorizing a two- to five-day strike by the union representing 3500 nursing assistants,
technicians and support staff ...
Sacramento Bee
May 16, 2012
"This is just another attack on
workers and the American
middle class," Hoffa said. "The decision lets anti-
worker extremists game the system. It condones the
NLRB member's neglect of his duty. It gets in the way of the NLRB's ability to do its job, ...
Sacramento Bee
May 16, 2012
SEIU Local 1000, the largest state
worker union, has argued for years that
California pays too much for those kinds of vendor service contracts.
Ninemsn
May 16, 2012
Casual workers should be given annual leave while bosses should be banned from keeping workers in unstable work long-term, an ACTU report recommends.
MiamiHerald.com
May 16, 2012
By Trevor Aaronson The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the federal agency charged with monitoring
worker safety, is investigating the illness of a
US Postal Service employee who handled a leaking package from Yemen at an Orlando ...
MarketWatch (press release)
May 16, 2012
LOS ANGELES, May 16, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- American workers, shaken by the realities of the Great Recession, have adjusted their visions of retirement according to the 13th Annual Transamerica Retirement Survey released today by the non-profit ...
Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2012
By Tina Susman NEW YORK -- A longtime Newark Liberty International Airport security worker pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of stealing the identity of a man slain 20 years ago to conceal his illegal immigration status -- a case that has ...
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
May 16, 2012
By Roger Wohlner According to a survey by The Hartford, the younger the worker, the greater the attraction to having the ability to take at least a portion of a retirement account as guaranteed income.
New York Times (blog)
May 16, 2012
By MOTOKO RICH While the recession and its aftermath have been particularly rough on the youngest workers, the oldest workers may end up suffering the longest. A new Government Accountability Office report on unemployed older workers looks at the ...
ABC News
May 16, 2012
A former BP
engineer charged with deleting text messages about how much oil was leaking from the company's blown-out well in the
Gulf of Mexico claims evidence not given to federal investigators will prove his innocence.
Fort Worth Star Telegram
May 16, 2012
By Maria Recio NEW YORK --
American Airlines got some welcome news Tuesday as the Transport
workers Union announced that five of its seven bargaining units accepted management's latest contract offer, which cut fewer jobs than first proposed.
ABS CBN News
May 15, 2012
By Dharel Placido, ABS-CBNnews.com MANILA, Philippines - At least 200000
workers in banana plantations in Davao region may be affected if the trade issue between
The Philippines and
China do not get resolved soon.
Springfield News-Leader
May 15, 2012
Co-employee liability: A 2005 rewrite of the workers' compensation law inadvertently created a loophole that allows an employee hurt on the job to sue a coworker for damages.
Vallejo Times-Herald
May 15, 2012
By Rachel Raskin-Zrihen/Times-Herald staff writer Some 45000 SEIU-UHW members, including about 1200 Kaiser Vallejo
healthcare workers, reached a tentative, national agreement with Kaiser Permanente early Monday, union officials announced.
Jackson Clarion Ledger
May 15, 2012
John Bradley Jr., a professor of law at the
University of Mississippi and expert on the state's
workers' comp program, said the new law defeats its own purpose.
Reuters
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
US Postal Service said it is cooperating with a US government investigation into a former postal
worker's claim that he has been seriously ill for more than a year after he says he came in contact with a suspicious package at ...
New York Times
May 15, 2012
Shifts grew longer, more inexperienced workers were hired and older rigs were being pressed into service, the agency concluded.
Chicago Tribune
May 15, 2012
USPS cooperating with government probe * Former
worker says came in contact with suspicious package WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The
US Postal Service said it is cooperating with a US government investigation into a former postal
worker's claim that ...
Washington Post
May 15, 2012
RICHMOND, Va. - The House of Delegates bullied Gov. Bob McDonnell on more than two dozen amendments he offered to the budget for the current fiscal year, including rejecting a proposal that put state employee pay bonuses in doubt.
The Daily Star
May 15, 2012
Beirut: Electricite Du Liban contract
workers continued Tuesday their protests in the capital demanding permanent employment with benefits at the state-run company.
New York Times
May 15, 2012
But his role had changed by the time the
steel mill filed for bankruptcy in 2001, leading to a layoff of 750
workers. By then, Mr.
TMZ.com
May 14, 2012
John Travolta asked a room steward on a Royal
Caribbean cruise line to give him a neck massage in his stateroom back in 2009 ... this according to an official incident report obtained by TMZ, but the documents don't mention anything about any overt ...
msnbc.com
May 14, 2012
... White Rose Catholic
worker posted late Sunday night. "As Catholic
workers, we serve the poor by practicing the works of mercy - feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, taking care of the sick and the works of war are directly opposed to that.
CBS News
May 14, 2012
Bobby Jindal's proposal to create a new retirement plan for future rank-and-file state workers advanced Monday to the full Senate for debate, after getting the support of the Senate Retirement Committee.
InvestmentNews
May 14, 2012
Yet American workers are increasingly unprotected from the risk of long-term disability as employers scale back workplace benefits, according to a new survey conducted for Sun Life Financial.
San Francisco Chronicle
May 14, 2012
Jerry Brown wants
California's public employees to take a 5 percent pay cut to help the state balance its books, partly to show that state
workers are sacrificing as Brown asks voters to increase
taxes this November. Yet the savings Brown forecasts in ...
Sacramento Bee
May 14, 2012
By Dan Smith Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said the 5 percent cut to state workers suggested by Gov. Jerry Brown can clear the Legislature, but only if employee unions and the administration can agree.
