How US Changes to ‘Noncompete’ Agreements and Overtime Pay Could Affect Workers
Written by CATHY BUSSEWITZ and MAE ANDERSON For millions of American workers, the federal...
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Biden Task Force Releases Report To Strengthen Labor Unions
Written by JOSH BOAK A Biden administration task force on organized labor on Monday issued a set of recommendations that could make it easier for federal workers and contractors to unionize. The report submitted to President Joe...
Read MoreMLB Owners Lock Out Players, 1st Work Stoppage Since 1995
Written by RONALD BLUM and STEPHEN HAWKINS Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport’s collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked...
Read MoreRape, Abuses in Palm Oil Fields Linked to Top Beauty Brands
With his hand clamped tightly over her mouth, she could not scream, the 16-year-old girl recalls – and no one was around to hear her anyway. She describes how her boss raped her amid the tall trees on an Indonesian palm oil...
Read MorePalm Oil Labor Abuses Linked to World’s Top Brands, Banks
Jum’s words tumble out over the phone, his voice growing ever more frantic. Between sobs, he says he’s trapped on a Malaysian plantation run by government-owned Felda, one of the world’s largest palm oil companies. His boss...
Read More“The Jackson Project”: Longtime Local Labor Organizer Tells (One Of) His Stories
“The Jackson Project” is Phil Cohen’s memoir about his struggles to help workers in 1989. (The struggles, he says, haven’t changed.)
Read MoreLabor Shortage Hitting Local Construction
Local homebuilders say the national labor shortage is causing headaches and delays.
Read MoreU.S. Labor Sec’y: Funds Needed For Unemployed Vets
CHAPEL HILL – The nationwide unemployment rate is slowly dropping but still high, a trend that also applies to specific demographic groups, including America’s veterans. Now, with budget season already upon us, Acting U.S....
Read MoreUNC Turning To “Competency-Based” Approach
CHAPEL HILL – As the UNC system reexamines its strategic goals for the next five years, university officials have turned to employers and business leaders to identify key needs—and the result of that will be a new focus on...
Read MoreAdministrative Professionals Week
Just curious – will you be celebrating Administrative Professionals Day (April 25) or Week (week of April 23) at your office? And if so, how? The celebration started in 1952 and some say it is “one of the largest...
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