One of three ADEA rulings today says employers defending a disparate-impact claim must prove the reasonableness of "factors other than age" they used.
Employees who work overtime are at increased risk of anxiety and depression, suggests a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
The executive summit held annually at the ASSE PDC is a panel of corporate executives that discuss how safety is an important component of their organization, the challenges they face and how occupational safety, health and environmental professionals can increase their relationships with corporate management in an effort to increase on-the-job safety, communicate the overall benefits of SH&E for employees, the community, quality products and the bottom line.
The most recent salary survey conducted by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals also showed 91.5 percent were positive about their careers.
Retail giant Wal-Mart will pay $250,000 and furnish significant injunctive relief to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced recently. EEOC had charged that Wal-Mart failed to accommodate and then fired a long-time pharmacy technician who suffered a disability resulting from a gunshot wound.
Here's one: Pull out your work only after the sun has gone down--when you are at home, your focus should be on your children.
Emergency dispatchers, caseworkers, and other public service workers perform "emotional" labor that should be valued in the same manner as mental and physical labor, according to a new book.
Human resource professionals said they are their organizations' primary resource for ethics-related issues, and they help create ethics policies. But most don't feel that they are truly part of the ethics infrastructure. Instead, they are just asked to "clean up" the situations caused by ethics violations.
“Improving communication is our goal,” said Warren K. Brown, CSP, ARM, CSHM, now poised to become the society’s 94th president.
“Don’t let the message get old. Information is not like wine—it doesn’t get better with age. It’s like bread,” said Robert Cialdini in his keynote presentation at this morning’s general session.
"We’re talking about more than just a paper program. It’s the kind of program that can reduce worker’s comp costs and illnesses and injuries, making the companies more productive and more competitive,” said OSHA chief Edwin G. Foulke today.
Using a set of 24 standardized core questions designed to diagnose a company’s safety culture, the survey measures a cross-section of responses from an organization’s employees and supervisors.
The U.S. Department of Labor recently announced a $6.6 million grant, with an initial release of $2,475,000, to the state of Michigan to provide assistance to workers affected by statewide closures and layoffs in the automotive industry. This release follows another recent DOL grant of more than $16 million in Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) funds to help Michigan workers who have been affected by trade.
The National Safety Council announced on June 5 that Janet P. Froetscher, president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, has been selected as its new president and chief executive officer. Froetscher replaces former NSC President and CEO Alan C. McMillan, who retired in February.
Letter says the strongest possible protections should be passed by Congress and sent to the president this year.
The problem put $50 million at risk and sparked reforms, including an outside oversight board. Administrator Marsha Ryan, shown here, says the agency is on track again.
The agency set a goal of reducing the time contested claims are resolved from about 200 days to 90 days or less and has made "significant progress," its chairman said.
From 1992-2006, a total of 11,303 Hispanic workers died from work-related injuries. The death rate for Hispanic workers was consistently higher than the rate for all U.S. workers, and the proportion of deaths among foreign-born Hispanic workers increased over time.
Fully three out of four Trendsetter CEOs cited concern over a lack of demand as the number one barrier to growth.
Economic futurist Jeremy Rifkin tells AIHce 2008 attendees that logistics, not cheap labor, is the prime factor in capital movements and economic activity worldwide.