Employers Take Steps to Keep Older Workers Safe August 4, 2017 By MARIA INES ZAMUDIO When managers at Bon Secours Virginia Health System started analyzing workers’ compensation cases, they noticed a bad combination: Older nurses...
Older Worker Fatalities Higher Than All Other Age Groups July 31, 2017 By MARIA INES ZAMUDIO and MICHELLE MINKOFF Older people are dying on the job at a higher rate than workers overall, even as the rate of workplace...
Commentary: Employers Rejecting Pot Users Will Pay a Price July 27, 2017 By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View In Youngstown, Ohio, the employment problem is not a shortage of jobs. Nor is it a shortage of workers. The...
Farmworker Safety Concerns Raised After Manure Pond Deaths July 18, 2017 By AUDREY DUTTON, Idaho Statesman It was still dark the morning Ruperto Vazquez-Carrera began his shift at Sunrise Organic Dairy in Boise, Idaho. It was...
Engagement, Good Goals Aid in Creating Safety Culture July 12, 2017 By Denise Johnson A team environment among all levels of staff that adheres to the same safety procedures and practices must be in...
Older Worker Rate Highest Since 1962 May 8, 2017 Retire by your mid-60s? How 1960s. More Americans age 65 and over are still punching the clock, and the last...
South Dakota Firm Said to Have Ignored Safety Rules Before Building Collapse May 4, 2017 The construction company that was remodeling a historic downtown Sioux Falls, S.D., building when it collapsed and killed a worker...
Widow Says South Carolina Plant Negligent in Blast, Husband’s Death April 24, 2017 By MEG KINNARD The widow of a South Carolina plastics plant worker who was killed when a pipe exploded and hot chemicals were...
Goodyear to Pay $1.75M After Four Workers Die at Virginia Factory February 13, 2017 By SARAH RANKIN Goodyear will pay $1.75 million to settle workplace health and safety violations at its Danville, Virginia, tire plant where four...
High Court Nominee Seen as Business-Friendly on Labor, Workplace Issues February 8, 2017 By SAM HANANEL and LAURIE KELLMAN In a decade as a federal appeals court judge, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has criticized courts for giving too...