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‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

Work Life

JULY 30, 2024

It might come as little surprise that working in retail or fast food ranks as one of the most common jobs in the U.S. Between the low pay and limited benefits, home care agencies have struggled to retain workers, especially as fast food and retail jobs have grown more appealing due to minimum wage increases. And it’s still that way.”

Insurance

Insurance Retail Food Manufacturing

This is how America’s childcare crisis is killing careers

Work Life

APRIL 23, 2024

To make ends meet, they’ve borrowed money against Jane’s life insurance policy. In Birmingham, Alabama, single mother Adriane Burnett takes home about $2,800 a month as a customer service representative for a manufacturing company. So she took on more work, delivering food for DoorDash and Uber Eats.

Cubicle

Cubicle Government Manufacturing Customer Service

Getting real about climate change

Ruby

JULY 12, 2021

The outages had affected everything from the state’s water supply to train lines to manufacturing. A wildfire razing California’s farmland means higher produce prices for food suppliers, restaurants, and catering businesses. A statewide power outage disrupts manufacturing and transportation lines, causing shipping delays.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Transportation Catering Supplies

Here’s why the job market is strong despite the weakening economy

Condeco Software

JULY 19, 2022

Shawn Tubman, head of talent acquisition at Liberty Mutual says the global insurance company has nearly 2,000 open jobs. The multinational food processing and commodities trading corporation has 300 manufacturing sites that need to staff grain silos and processing plants. in March 2020.

Payroll

Payroll Manufacturing Office Policies Insurance

Barista blues: On unions, coffeehouses, and memories of the end of the Great American Jobs Machine

Minding the Workplace

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

This raises a hard dilemma that I don’t pretend to know how to resolve, i.e. , entry-level job categories that a generation or two ago were popular with younger high school and college students, now also being filled by folks who need that living wage, health insurance, and the like.

Retail

Retail Food Small Business Manufacturing

The essentials of a written safety program

Insperity

JUNE 30, 2020

The most far-reaching is the hazard communication program , which affects all employers that manufacture, store or use hazardous chemicals. A number of OSHA standards require employers to have written compliance programs. There are also written program requirements specific to different industries.

Controlling

Controlling Equipment Training Transportation

45 Successful Corporate Wellness Programs Employees Will Love

SnackNation

JUNE 15, 2018

At Earth Friendly Products , employees are welcome to snag food from an organic fruits and vegetables garden. Talk about fresh food! Manufacturers of audiovisual equipment, Draper, Inc is headquartered about 40 miles outside of Indianapolis, Indiana. Draper, Inc. Guided meditation and an on-site farmers market? Sign us up!

Coaching

Coaching Equipment Catering Consulting

7 Companies with Best Employee Perks

Vantage Circle

APRIL 15, 2019

American Apparel is a North American clothing manufacturer. If that was not enough they are provided with free food. What about health insurance you ask? They even went as far as providing pet insurance! Whole Foods. 40 years later, their endeavors bore fruit and Whole Foods is now worth over $13 billion.

Retail

Retail Food Purchasing Insurance

Recent Study Reveals the Career Fields Most Likely to Cause Poor Pregnancy Outcomes

Success

MARCH 13, 2023

Surprisingly, however, it was those in health and social work who “showed the highest risk of no live births,” while those in manufacturing and health and social work had similar rates of risk for “early abortive outcomes” like miscarriage, “compared with financial and insurance jobs.” One of the study authors, Jung-won Yoon, M.D.,

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Insurance Problem-Solving Retail

Why Job Seekers Should Look for Great Workplaces, Not Industries

Great Place to Work

AUGUST 26, 2022

Wegmans Food Markets, the No. Take retail, an industry whose workers quit at record levels during the pandemic and where meaningful work at a typical U.S. workplace is lower than any other industry at only 38%. That more than doubles to 79% for employees at the Best Workplaces in Retail. It also uses?

Retail

Retail Construction Real Estate Manufacturing

Labor Day is the time to call for employee ownership and better worker protections

Work Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Independent workers like ride-share drivers , who are often misclassified and lack worker protections, shoulder the costs of doing their jobs, like buying, maintaining, and insuring a vehicle. The most fundamental risk workers take on when they accept any job is if it will pay enough to meet basic needs like food and housing.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Security Insurance Food

Job market had more openings and fewer layoffs in October

Work Life

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Vacancies rose by 162,000 in the accommodation and food services industry and climbed by 87,000 in the information sector. Hires fell by 269,000 to 5.313 million, pulled down by declines in construction, manufacturing, finance and insurance, professional and business services as well as the leisure and hospitality industry.

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Banking Construction Payroll

How the DIY economy hurts women

Work Life

JUNE 5, 2024

In the process, they’ve left forty million Americans struggling to keep a roof over their heads , thirty-four million without sufficient food to eat , and thirty million without health insurance. They offered health insurance and pensions for workers when they retired. During the decades following the Great Depression, U.S.

Government

Government Problem-Solving Insurance Security

‘We are somewhat invisible’: Why home care work is so hard—and so critical

This is how America’s childcare crisis is killing careers

Getting real about climate change

Here’s why the job market is strong despite the weakening economy

Barista blues: On unions, coffeehouses, and memories of the end of the Great American Jobs Machine

The essentials of a written safety program

45 Successful Corporate Wellness Programs Employees Will Love

7 Companies with Best Employee Perks

Recent Study Reveals the Career Fields Most Likely to Cause Poor Pregnancy Outcomes

Why Job Seekers Should Look for Great Workplaces, Not Industries

Labor Day is the time to call for employee ownership and better worker protections

Job market had more openings and fewer layoffs in October

How the DIY economy hurts women

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