News & Events
Human Resources News
- Employee loyality rises during global economic recession, survey finds
- Economy is leading more women back to work
- Planned job cuts fell in February, to lowest level since 2006, survey shows
- Five reasons employers should focus on pay equity in 2010
- Internal movement accounts for more than half of "new hires" in 2009, annual survey finds
- Online job demand dips 66,900 in February, The Conference Board reports
- January mass layoffs show first hike in months
- Study links wellness programs to innovation, creativity
- Survey shows two-thirds of U.S. workforce worried about 2010 stress and workload
- Majority of employees make regular suggestions at the workplace
- More than one billion mobile workers worldwide by year's end, according to IDC study
Employment Law
- EBSA issues final rule on disclosure requirements for multiemployer plans
- Labor Department investigation led to $969,000 in overtime back wages being paid to 173 workers
- NLRB seeks injunctive relief requiring Deb-El Food Products bargain with union
- ICE serves 180 audit notices to businesses in five states
- DOJ secures $40,000 from Goodyear for failure to reemploy Army Reservist
- Westat report reveals that E-Verify inaccurately identifies undocumented workers as work authorized 54 percent of the time
- Sand and gravel company to pay $498,000 to settle EEOC sex bias and reprisal suit
- EEOC budget increase will go to hiring to improve enforcement, reduce backlog, target systemic litigation
- DOL seeking feedback on certain child labor issues in advance of developing reports for Congress & the President
- New sample bill to aid states in banning text while driving
- Milwaukee paid sick leave case referred to state supreme court
Safety/OSHA News
- DOL/OSHA schedules conference on Latino worker safety and health
- OSHA cites North Carolina and Georgia contractors following fatal worker fall from Epping, NH, water tower
- Endres Processing LLC of Kansas City, Kan., cited for violations of OSH Act
- OSHA cites Pittsburgh construction company for lack of fall protection following worker's death
- OSHA cites C.A. Franc $539,000 for willful fall hazard violations following worker's death at Washington, Pa., worksite
- Illinois-based railroads ordered by USDOL to compensate employee fired for reporting work-related injury