5,000 Meat, Food Plant Workers Exposed to Coronavirus, Union Says April 24, 2020 By Tom Polansek More than 5,000 U.S. meat and food-processing workers have been infected with or exposed to the new coronavirus, and 13...
Travelers Sees Q1 Profit Fall From Storms; It’s Watching COVID-19 Workers’ Comp Claims April 21, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn and Noor Zainab Hussain Property and casualty insurer Travelers Cos. Inc. reported a 25% drop in quarterly profit on Tuesday and warned that potential...
Layoffs, Small Business Exits Likely Major Coronavirus Effects on Workers’ Comp: NCCI April 20, 2020 A new analysis of the economic effects of the coronavirus finds that while layoffs of workers will have the most...
Employers May Exclude Payroll to Employees Not Working for Workers’ Comp: NCCI April 20, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Businesses that have suspended operations due to COVID-19 but continue to pay employees who are at home but not working...
Who Got Money in Small Business Paycheck Protection Program? April 17, 2020 By Andy Sullivan, Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 (Reuters) – Over two frantic weeks, the U.S. government pledged $350 billion to Main Street businesses...
Get Too Close, Get Buzzed. Ford Tests Wearables to Keep Workers at Safe Distances. April 17, 2020 By Keith Naughton A dozen Ford Motor Co. workers are experimenting with wearable social-distancing devices that could be deployed more widely once the...
OSHA Inspectors to Prioritize Health Facilities Over Other Sites During Coronavirus Crisis April 15, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner The U.S. agency that enforces workplace safety laws has said it will prioritize work site inspections of healthcare facilities over...
Meat Plant Closures, Absenteeism Rise With Workers’ Fear of Coronavirus, Lack of Safety April 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba — At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10...
For Workers’ Safety, Walmart Stocks Up on Masks, Gloves; Initiates One-Way Aisles April 1, 2020 Walmart Inc. will provide masks and gloves for its workers and take their temperature before shifts, the latest moves by...
Coronavirus Infections on Rise in Already-Strained Urban Police Departments March 31, 2020 By Grant Smith, Michelle Conlin, Linda So and Brad Heath When nine police officers showed up to make an arrest near Melrose Avenue in the Bronx last Wednesday, none wore...