In a recent NYT article about work meetings, contributor Virginia Heffernan describes the only meeting ever led by Octavian Costache, the chief technology officer and co-founder Spring, a tech start-up in Manhattan. That incident occurred about a year ago, and instead of meeting to talk about the us...
The bill requires contracts for projects and payment within 30 days of completion.
When it comes to a timely paycheck, freelancing sucks.
Freelance workers often don't get compensated with the same regularity that salaried, or even hourly, workers do. Instead, they may have to follow up with a clie...
What do changes to workers compensation mean for injured workers?
Last week ProPublica and NPR released the second extensive report in their investigative series on the dismantling of the American Workers Compensation system.
As they explain, corporate lawyers like Bill Minick in Dallas have li...
Our jobs shouldn’t suck the life out of us. So in the current trend toward enhanced worker wellness, we’ve seen the spread of standing desks, office meditation sessions and healthy snacks in our places of employment.
But those measures are just the first step.
Recently corporate research firm ...
The past few years have brought an alarming number of studies and reports on the short-term effects of concussions on youth who play sports, as well as possible long-term repercussions for professional athletes who play high-impact contact sports like football and hockey. All of these belong to ...
Construction site injuries and fatalities cost the state of Washington hundreds of millions of dollars, and exact an incalculable price on the lives of workers themselves. These costs were recently compiled and published in a report by Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
The ...
Over the past years, we have discussed the medical and emotional risks of excessive or consistent worry. For employees with a workplace injury, occupational disease or disability, stress and anxiety can add a significant burden on the body. Below we discuss some steps for reducing stress and wor...
Many consider government regulations in the workplace to be pure bureaucratic obstacles, offering dubious protection to employees and consumers, and driving companies to layoffs and bankruptcy through the high cost of compliance. Yet both critics and supporters of regulation have historically te...
Since the 1960s, labor activists and workers’compensation attorneys have grown increasingly concerned about health problems in Japan resulting from long working hours. The problem became so widespread in recent decades that the term Karoshi, or “death from overwork,” went mainstream.
Resear...