The Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OSHA) works to provide safe working environments and enforces health and safety regulations in workplaces across the U.S. Every American employer, worker, and manufacturer is required to observe OSHA rules. When OSHA codes are ignored, the res...
In a recent article she titled “Why You Need to Quit Your Job,” Author and Life and Leadership coach Adria Corso related her own struggle feeling trapped in a job that made her miserable. In introducing the dilemma, she wrote that “Eight years ago, I sat in the big fancy office of my corporate...
By now you’ve probably heard about the Wells Fargo scandal, where the bank relentlessly pressured its employees to open new customer accounts, resulting in millions of “sham accounts” opened to meet unrealistic quotas. Last month customers filed a class action lawsuit against Wells Fargo, a...
Every institution needs rules. But companies don't need to be shortsighted and lazy in their efforts to maintain and ordered, functioning workplace.
Most of us can understand the temptation to draft up binders and binders of guidelines and regulations. Travis Bradberry, author of the bestselling ...
Walmart employees are protesting over the 15 days leading up to Black Friday with the aim of raising the retail giant’s minimum to $15 an hour, reports Reuters. While the 15 days for $15 is a catchy tactic, those labor activists are also fighting for expanded full-time opportunities and better ben...
American businesses have found themselves as a crossroads.
One path prioritizes profitability for shareholders, oftentimes at the expense of the natural environment, workers' rights and even executive wellness. The other track, which a growing number of companies are beginning to follow, evaluate...
Thanks a lot, technology.
The most frightening part of the automated workplace isn’t necessarily that robots are coming to steal our jobs -- it's that robots are coming to measure our jobs.
In the 2015 edition of MIT Technology Review's Future of Work report, economist Tyler Cowen analyzes...
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“Ask for what you want.”
This job advice is so rarely acted upon that it deserves endless repeating: “Tell people what you want, and then go out and get it,” said Eileen McDonnell, the CEO of Fortune 1000 insurance firm Penn Mutual. In a recent interview, McDonnell shared how surprised she...
We all know there are certain questions a job interviewer cannot ask you: religious affiliation, marital status, sexual orientation, whether you have kids, etc. But it seems that many employers get around that these days by simply snooping through your social media.
In fact, applicants report an ...
The Family and Medical Leave Act was passed over 20 years ago, making landmark changes that allow workers to take off 12 weeks of unpaid leave for medical or family reasons without risking termination from their jobs.
But now, many workers, politicians, labor activists, and workers’ compens...