Hospitality Staffing Solutions and the dehumanization of workers
I was thinking of writing a post about how dehumanizing it is to work for Hospitality Staffing Solutions, the “temporary agency” used by Hyatt Hotels in Boston, Indianapolis and other cities, where workers start at minimum wage with no benefits and have to clean up to 30 rooms a day.
http://rabbibrant.com/2011/05/09/hospitality-staffing-solutions-and-the-dehumanization-of-workers/
Safety forum to focus on regulations, new technologies to prevent deadly truck, bus accidents
The National Transportation Safety Board began a two-day forum Tuesday to hear from federal regulators, safety experts, and the truck and bus industries about what is being done to prevent deadly accidents like 2009 crash near Miami, Okla., and why past safety recommendations — some of them decades old — haven’t been enacted. There has been a lot of progress — truck fatalities have come down — but there is still much work that needs to be done, NTSB member Robert Sumwalt said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/safety-forum-to-focus-on-regulations-new-technologies-to-prevent-deadly-truck-bus-accidents/2011/05/10/AFpT4xeG_story.html
OSHA: Theater inspections to include emergency plan review
The federal agency that governs workplace safety has sent a letter to 63 New York City theaters saying future inspections of the venues will include reviews of their emergency action plans. The letter from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says that the attempted car bombing in Times Square last summer highlighted the need for increased vigilance and ongoing emergency preparedness.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/05/10/osha-theater-inspections-to-include-emergency-plan-review/
Grain company fined after deadly accident
A Taft grain company is being fined thousands of dollars by the federal government after a man was killed at the facility last year. It was a tragic scene at Taft Grain & Elevator back in November. Arnulfo “Ernie” Medina became trapped for a time before he died. His death was ruled to be caused by asphyxiation and Monday a federal agency announced nearly $200,000 in fines against this company for the accident.
http://www.kztv10.com/news/grain-company-fined-after-deadly-accident/
Former roughneck wins record $322 million in asbestos case
In what attorneys said was the largest ever single-plaintiff asbestos verdict in U.S. history, a Mississippi jury has awarded $322 million to a former oil field worker who allegedly inhaled asbestos dust while mixing drilling mud.
http://www.fairwarning.org/2011/05/former-roughneck-wins-record-322-million-in-asbestos-case/
OSHA cites Alabama canopy company for exposing workers to fall hazards; proposes more than $200,000 in fines
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Chapman Canopy Inc. with 12 safety violations, chiefly for exposing workers to fall hazards while installing canopies in Pinson, Albertville and Tuscaloosa. Proposed penalties total $202,040.
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/us-department-of-labor-40167.html
Inmate’s family plans to sue over fatal fall
Family members of a jail inmate who died after a 16-foot fall at the city-county trash station in Las Cruces are threatening a lawsuit, claiming the government was negligent. Ricky Gasper died Nov. 12, 2010, while working at the South Central Solid Waste Authority plant, 2865 W. Amador Ave. He’d been spraying a building with a power hose, when he “fell 16 feet into a cement hole, landing on his back,” according to the claim filed by the family’s attorney.
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_18029896
Caregiver support needed in today’s workplace
Imaging telling today’s working parents that they can’t have any time off for doctor’s appointments, child care emergencies, or school activities. The culture of the modern workplace in America has changed to accommodate the realities of being a working parent. Caregivers are now at the crossroads working parents once faced. Their challenges have been largely ignored, but the sheer number of aging Americans is forcing the issue into focus. Once again, workers who find the competing demands of work and caregiving to be too much of a strain are forced to choose family over their jobs.
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/lifecycles/2011/may/9/caregiver-support-needed-todays-workplace/
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