With his H-1B fight over and lost to the tech industry, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) lashed out in the minutes before the Senate Judiciary Committee's final vote on the controversial immigration bill late last month. It was late in the ...
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The PPG Industries Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Palmdale School District in California for the Palmdale Aerospace Academy charter school. Here, Deb Noe, HR manager at PPG Industries' (NYSE:PPG) aerospace manufacturing facility in ...
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The Spanish Intertextil Council (ICE) and textile federations CCOO and UGT have reached an agreement, which will be signed in the coming days, related to wage increase for the period January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2013. The agreement has ...
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The Victorian Transport Association (VTA) Academy has officially launched the Driver Cadetship Program. The launch was supported by Zurich Insurance, which affirmed it will reduce insurance premiums and restrictions for drivers undergoing ...
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US employee benefits-only agency Digital Insurance has purchased Fallick Insurance Services of Mountain View, California, with an aim to enhance employee benefits client services. The acquired enterprise will join the Los Altos/Silicon ...
There is a wide variety of Castors & Wheels available in the industry in this day and age. Many huge manufacturers will have over ten thousand different kinds of solid and pneumatic castor wheels in stock at any given time. The reason for ...
HM Insurance Group, a Highmark company, has developed new products to help producers in calculating and understanding the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes and fees on self-insured groups. The new fee calculator and ...
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Companies' bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies are affecting how many traditional PCs enterprises purchase and contributing to a global sales slump, IDC analysts said Tuesday. About 25% of employees in businesses with more than 10 ...
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The Transport Education Audit Compliance Health Organisation (TEACHO) research program for 2013-14 will focus on important transport industry issues such as worker health and safety, vehicle technology and professional development for truck ...
Employers are finally recognizing that healthy employees are productive employees, so they're taking action to help employees get fit while they work. Many larger companies have gyms on site that employees can use throughout the day. ...
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Better Work Indonesia (BWI) programme and Sustaining Competitive and Responsible Enterprises (SCORE), programmes initiated by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), conducted a training programme in Jakarta-based garment manufacturing ...
Tags: Garment Unit, ILO
Coles has been a focus of the TWU's road transport campaign. Truck drivers and their employers presented a united front at the TWU National Council in Darwin in their calls for a greater focus on road safety in the supply chain. ARTIO ...
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A major FTSE-100-listed mining company has revealed that it may have lost valuable corporate data after a laptop computer was taken during a domestic burglary, while it has also warned of a "potential loss of data" as a result of an alleged ...
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The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) says it has been warning the Federal Government for two years that the large reductions to incentives to employ apprentices was going to result in a dramatic drop-off in the number of ...
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Clean Clothes Campaign activists are set to stage protests across Europe on 24th May calling on major brands to pay compensation for fire and building collapse victims in Bangladesh. The protests take place exactly one month after the Rana ...