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  • Student group triumphs in Honduran labor dispute 30 Nov 2009 05:35 GMT
    ... helped save thousands of jobs for factory workers in Honduras. Purdue’s Organization for Labor Equality ... produces athletic apparel, is the largest private employer in Honduras. POLE was the eighth organization ... company will also rehire all workers, provide compensation for lost wages and establish a fund ...

  • Firms seek delay in workers' comp law 30 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... Small businesses and state officials say a workerscompensation law scheduled to take effect Dec. 31 ... the system, including “stacking.” Stacking occurs when employers avoid paying for coverage for their employees ...

  • Va. to borrow $1.26 billion for depleted unemployment funds 30 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... ways to replenish its depleted fund for unemployment benefits, Hampton Roads employers expressed concern about ... 29 presentation to the Commission on Unemployment Compensation. Adjusting to those sorts of increases may ... the volume of claims that an employer's workers make on the trust fund and the ...

  • 85 miners collect checks in Massey settlement 30 Nov 2009 00:30 GMT
    ... the existing contract with the United Mine Workers. Randy Bowen, one of the miners who ... of each $38,000 check is for partial compensation for back pay, while 35 percent is ... could have avoided this by offering everyone employment." Mike Ryan, president of UMW Local 8843, ...

  • Harsher advice regs may come, experts worry 30 Nov 2009 06:32 GMT
    ... Borzi, assistant secretary of labor of the Employee Benefits Security Administration, did not return phone ... certified to be unbiased or if the compensation of the adviser providing one-on-one consultation doesn't ... to Wall Street at the expense of workers,” House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George ...

  • Exec pay freeze eyed for underfunded DB plans 30 Nov 2009 06:32 GMT
    ... considering drafting legislation that would freeze executive compensation at companies with significantly underfunded defined benefit ... the termination of their pension plans for workers. The GAO report, which did not identify ... funds — the $58.2 billion Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, the $62.9 billion Ohio State ...

  • Without ladders, cranes or cherry pickers, arborist decorates 90-foot redwood in San Jose 30 Nov 2009 05:33 GMT
    ... On Saturday, he and David Preciado, an employee of Edwards' Trees 360 Degrees company, took ... Fein said. Edwards' job is risky — workers' compensation insurance costs 50 percent of the value ...

  • Engineers take a bad year in stride 30 Nov 2009 05:22 GMT
    ... in particular, most EEs still love their jobs, wish to stay in the field and ... and rising concerns about job security and compensation. Engineers are not a monolithic group, of ... the heat as companies demand more from employees and clamp down on hiring to stabilize ...

  • Tail risk hedging for pensions, endowments and foundations 30 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
    ... an investment analyst at the Indiana Public Employees Retirement Fund, Indianapolis. Prior to joining PERF ... investment office structure, including investment mandates and staff incentive compensation. Tracking-error-based risk budgets for pensions would be ...

  • IT cos pare variable pay to maintain margins 30 Nov 2009 02:43 GMT
    ... cut down variable pay components of their employees drastically in a fresh bid to cut ... spokesperson said, “IBM continues to offer competitive compensation to its employees.” Much on the lines ... employees are finding it difficult to switch jobs as IT firms are increasingly looking at ...

  • Deforestation unlocking Indonesia's reservoirs of Carbon 30 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... Syahrani, said he was trying to get compensation but didn’t hold out much hope. Globalindo’s ... “are the only real investment opportunity. They employ people” and pay taxes. The rest, he ... of Delaware—into a rice farm. Thousands of workers were shipped in to dig canals and ...

  • Letter > Why make me pay? 30 Nov 2009 05:55 GMT
    ... Press story about paid sick leave for employees ("Queasy reaction to sick-day bill," Monitor, Nov. ... If the Legislature thinks paid sick leave, workers' compensation insurance and unemployment insurance are good ideas, ...

  • Students rally for justice in India tragedy 30 Nov 2009 02:22 GMT
    ... campus to stop purchasing from vendors that employed sweatshop labor in developing countries.” Since the disaster, representatives ... for an Indian,” referring to the average compensation Bhopali victims received. Union Carbide and the ...

  • Cruising into conflict: Shipboard art auctioneer Park West charts course through troubled waters 30 Nov 2009 02:43 GMT
    ... and Caicos Islands, and has trained and employed Park West's shipboard auctioneers as independent contractors ... are versed in human resources and auctioneer compensation. Park West contracted with the company because ... a marketing and public relations department, legal staff and a Web desk to help build ...

  • Crist, others get major medical subsidy 30 Nov 2009 06:11 GMT
    ... massive budget shortfalls, lawmakers and top state employees have received health-insurance perks costing taxpayers $45 ... appropriate. I think it's part of the compensation package for a public servant,'' Crist said. ... fees for health benefits. Of the government workers who get free insurance premiums in Florida, ...


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