A new study conducted by Selective Insurance Group shows that employers in all industries need to make sure all new workers undergo thorough safety training to avoid accidents and injuries. The study reviewed 10 years of workers’ compensation claims and…
We are facing a workplace mental health crisis, with burnout, exhaustion and hopelessness more common among workers than ever before, argues the Society for Human Resource Management. A new survey conducted by SHRM found that 94% of human resources professionals…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration want employers to file their mandatory injury and illness reports electronically, which will be made public on the Internet – and easily sifted through by tort lawyers and union organizers. A similar proposal during…
If you are an employer in the private and third-party logistics warehouse industry, you now have a target on your back that was pinned there by a new Department of Labor wage enforcement initiative. What you also need to know…
The Trucking Alliance, a safety coalition of freight transportation and logistics companies, has joined with the Department of Labor in support of its truck driver apprenticeship training program. “The efforts by the Biden administration and by DOL to expand registered…
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is implementing a National Emphasis Program (NEP) intended to protect workers from heat-related injuries and illnesses in both outdoor and indoor workplaces. NEPs are temporary programs that focus OSHA's resources intensely on particular hazards…
Amazon recently lost its first union election in its long battle to avoid unionization at its Staten Island, NY, distribution facility, seen as a major defeat in its long history of remaining union-free. The company is asserting that unwarranted influence…
Drug usage by Americans in safety sensitive jobs is continuing to rise and expand, probably driven in part by the effects of the Covid 19 pandemic on the nation’s frayed social fabric, and the growing legalization of psychoactive drugs, such…
Earlier this year, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest statistics for union membership and the news was not good for America’s labor unions. In 2021, the number of wage and salary workers belonging to unions continued to…
On March 3, President Biden signed a new law that bans the use of pre-dispute arbitration agreements in cases alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment. The reform had been sought since the early days of the #MeToo movement when it…
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