Citing Safety, Union Sues to Block Trump Waivers That Speed Up Poultry Lines July 29, 2020 By Mike Dorning A food workers’ union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block Trump administration waivers that allow poultry plants to operate...
Meat Packing Plant Owners Defend Operations During Pandemic July 27, 2020 By Michael Hirtzer and Isis Almeida As part of an investigation into the spread of coronavirus at U.S. meat plants, Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory...
Workers Turn Into Sleuths to Track Sicknesses Where Employers Keep Covid Data Secret July 22, 2020 By Joseph Pisani and Alexandra Olson Jana Jumpp spends eight hours a day updating a spreadsheet — not for work, but a recent hobby: figuring out...
Robots Gain as Pandemic Lockdowns, Safety Issues Cause Factories to Automate July 21, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh While a resurgence in coronavirus cases in Texas has brought many businesses to a screeching halt, eight robots have kept...
Risk of Airborne Coronavirus Adds to Challenge of Making Workspaces Safe July 20, 2020 By Caroline Humer U.S. companies are raising new questions about how they can make workplaces safe after the world’s top public health agency...
Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in Pandemic July 14, 2020 By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News Congressional leaders are squaring off over the next pandemic relief bill in a debate over whom Congress should step up...
Return-to-Work Safety: Employers Find Testing Employees More Trouble Than It’s Worth July 6, 2020 By Christopher Palmeri, Emma Court and Angelica LaVito From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers...
Exclusive Coronavirus Survey: P/C Insurance Return to ‘Normal’ Office May Take Time July 1, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson Many property/casualty insurance professionals, most of whom have been working at home during the pandemic, may need some convincing not...
UBS Settles Lawsuit with Former Trainee Who Alleged Rape by Senior Employee June 29, 2020 By Jonathan Browning UBS Group AG settled a lawsuit brought by a former trainee in London who said she was raped by a...
Bullying and Harassment Increase for Some Workers in Pandemic Lockdown: Opinion June 23, 2020 By Elisa Martinuzzi, Bloomberg Opinion Working from home should have liberated employees from toxic workplace behavior such as bullying and harassment. Amid the lockdowns, gone...