The way management treats the least of their employees says a lot about a business. And we know of one local employer which won’t be found on Fortune Magazine's list of 100 Best Companies to Work For anytime soon. Since 2010, undocumented Mexican, Ecuadorean, and Dominican workers have a...
The list of this year’s most ticketed safety violations in the workplace is out. According to Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA's Directorate of Enforcement Programs, "This list doesn't change much from year to year, even if the order does." Even though virtually all categories reported fewe...
Back injuries are a major concern in workplaces around the world, and with good reason. But the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has recently released a tool to calculate the overall risk index for single and multiple manual lifting tasks. The free Lifting Equation Smar...
The project? A 38-story super luxe hotel, which is due to sprout out of midtown Manhattan sometime in the near future. The heavy equipment? A gargantuan hydraulic drill known as the “Casa Grande,” which is Spanish for “Big House.” As the driver of the mobile drill attempted to pilot the l...
It’s not too often we see win / win situations in the news, but regarding the current state of affairs of workplace discrimination in America, that’s exactly the case. This year, federal officials have observed a precipitous decline in job-related discrimination...