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CNews ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Limited (PTCL) has accepted three demands of protesting workers on Thursday.According to sources, latest development is a result of intervention of PPP Co Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and PTCL administration has accepted the three demands of the workers.The demands, which have been accepted, are withdrawal of unified pay scale, restoration of w

It could mean your bin doesn't get emptied, maybe somewhere you work or visit won't be cleaned. Still, council workers across the country start two days of strike action over pay from today. I caught a couple of local workers at the Pyms Lane depot at 6.30am as they were being joined by a Unison rep. They are being offered a 2.45% rise when inflation is climbing and previous pay awards have also b

America is on a steady decline as far as the job market is concerned. The numbers are in, and it ain’t looking good, boys and girls. If you work at McDonald’s or are a Master Slurpee Technician, count your blessings. Some industries aren’t so lucky. The middle class, blue collar workers are the [...]

“A spectre is haunting the Western world. The spectre of fear. Fear that the middle classes are losing out, and while their economies may still be growing, the rising tide no longer lifts the majority of boats.” - Jacon Funk Kirkegaard, Peterson Institute for International Economics So begins the Economist magazine’s latest online debate on the [...]

Canadian Auto Workers President Buzz Hargrove, who fought to retain Canadian workers’ high wages even as the country lost thousands of auto jobs, announced his retirement Tuesday. Hargrove, who has led the CAW for 16 years, said he will step down no later than Sept. 15. Hargrove turns 65 in March, which is the union’s mandatory retirement age for any officer or staff member. Hargrove

So I’m cruising through the pages of the Washington Post this evening, and I find an article that just blows my mind. The title alone was enough for me to be able to jump right over that big writer’s block in front of me. The headline reads “Advocates Speak Up for Illegal Day [...]

Workers at four Argos distribution centres are to go on strike after voting for industrial action in a pay row.Their union said there will be a series of 24-hour walkouts at Basildon in Essex, Bridgwater in Somerset, Heywood in Greater Manchester and Magna Park in Leicestershire. More

Colorado is one among of handful of states where hundreds of firefighters, paramedics, police, and even corporate employees are being trained to hunt down and report a broadly defined range of “suspicious activities.” They’re called Terrorism Liaison Officers. The federally supported initiative trains them to look out for “observed behavior that may be indicative of intelligence-gathering

If you make your living in the service industry, you’re economic woes are going doubly deep. “People can’t afford to be generous right now,” says Susan, a server at a Boston... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

The article I posted a few weeks ago in regards to the H5N1 vaccine caused me to consider a potential pandemic and the health care workers’ obligation to work should the event come to pass. The World Health Organization estimates that today a pandemic is likely to result in 2 to 7.4 million deaths globally. In high [...]

“Think your fo call AOL. How can today your need be serve most bestly?” “Please for you to tell me question more infonation clearly again”. I swear I get the same person every time I call the AOL tech. service line, and this is the response I get. Why? Because [...]

A study published in the April 2008 issue of Journal of Traumatic Stress examined anniversary reactions in mental health disaster relief workers following traumatic exposure at the site of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks. Despite relatively low levels of...

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By Christine Dugas, USA TODAYOne morning last month, the manager of a Stop & Shop in Methuen, Mass., noticed a man, along with his young daughter, leave the store without paying for several bags of shrimp. When police arrived, they found something else on him, too: 20 cans of baby formula.Call it a sign of the times. Steadily and alarmingly, shoplifting seems to be rising at many retail chains, an

By FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press Writer CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) _ A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced [...]

Domestic Workers Unite!Domestic workers in America are among the most economically exploited and vulnerable to abuse by their employers. Ford tells union more cuts needed ... as ... Ford pays new CEO $39.1M in 4 months. Hmm... some slumping market, eh? Problems at Toyota: Your Prius Was Made By Abused Workers The Toyota You Don't Know Like Clock Work:Wal-Mart faces 80 class-actions, m

Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday told 200 temporary workers at its full-size truck plant here they will be laid off this summer.The company will also slow production at its Tundra plant, scheduling 14 days between now and October when no trucks will roll off the assembly lines. Those days, workers will be allowed to take vacation, days without pay or work at the plant on non-manufacturing duties as t

I was speaking to someone, who mentioned a conversation she had with a White, male coworker. He was complaining about political correctness and saying that he thought some people used it as a crutch to play the victim because they were overly sensitive and wanted to control everyone by being part of the so-called “word police.”Here’s my take on political correctness (especially at work)…Y

Washington Mutual Corp. is cutting 1,200 jobs nationwide. The country's largest thrift, hit hard by turmoil in the mortgage and credit markets, said Thursday that some layoffs will be in its home loan business. Home loans workers at WaMu have been the target of recent layoffs as the company has stopped offering subprime mortgages and other risky loans. WaMu says eligible laid off employees who

The full-size pickup truck woes continue to worsen, leaving even mighty Toyota little choice but to slow production of its Tundra model. In fact, Toyota's brand new plant in San Antonio that was built just for the Tundra will be shutting down a total of 14 days between now and October. Full-time workers at the plant will be able to use vacation days, take the time off unpaid or find something els

The Home Office has announced that it is  ‘naming and shaming’ companies that flout the law by employing illegal immigrants, on it’s website from 19th June. They have revealed that 35 companies have already been fined, mostly small fast food businesses, with fines ranging from £5,000 to £22,500. The highest fines have been handed out to Besmullah Car [...]

The Miami Herald is to eliminate some niche publications and outsource certain jobs to India as part of wide-reaching cost-cutting measures announced Monday. by bizjournal.com Economic woes punish... The place for miami downtowners to find whats going on in their area and at the same time support the downtown area grow

Apparently stepping into the void left by the Darwinian nature of foreclosures and their aftermath, some employers are assisting workers to avoid foreclosure or find rental properties after they're evicted. From a Wall Street Journal story:In the wake of the mortgage crisis, a small but growing number of workers are getting help avoiding or coping with foreclosure from an unlikely source: their e

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New Jersey - A New Jersey appellate panel has ruled that fifteen Spanish workers will be allowed to sue an American company in a New Jersey state court. The Spanish workers claim that they developed asbestos-related diseases while employed to work on United States Navy ships in Spain. The Spanish workers are attempting to sue manufacturer [...]

New York - Town officials of Goldens Bridge in New York say they have made ever effort to have property owner Brian Stein complete the repairs needed to make his property at 28 Fairmount Road in Goldens Bridge less hazardous, but to no avail. Members of the Town Board have now agreed that the town will [...]

Technorati Tags: crude oil prices news,malaysia,malaysiakini,malaysia today,malaysiatoday,part time working,part time jobs,working part time The recent fuel price hike (from RM1.92 to RM2.70 per litre) has surprised many Malaysians and everyone is desperate to find some other means to make... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Technorati Tags: crude oil prices news,malaysia,malaysiakini,malaysia today,malaysiatoday,part time working,part time jobs,working part time The recent fuel price hike (from RM1.92 to RM2.70 per litre) has surprised many Malaysians and everyone is desperate to find some other means to make additional money to cope with the sudden high costs of living. I sincerely hope that either one of the

Boy George is returning some good karma to New York City's sanitation workers: Two years after sweeping the city streets as part of community service, he has decided to perform a free concert for his former co-workers.George will sing some of his hits for the Department of Sanitation's Family Day on Aug. 17."The people I worked alongside showed great kindness to me at a very difficult time, and I

Bank staff in China quake zone use donations to buy runners: A branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in quake-hit Mianyang city used quake funds to buy 56 pairs of Nike shoes for its workers. Staff at a bank in China's quake zone used relief funds to buy themselves US brand runners, the country's audit office said Friday after probing for instances of aid money going astray.ADVE

One of the things mentioned at WWDC 08 that we haven't talked much about is the new enterprise solution for app distribution. While it might not make a big difference for the everyday consumer, it will mean a lot for IT departments who will want to distribute their applications in ways other than through the app store. read more

Indians topped the list of expatriate workers registering with Bahrain's Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA) over the weekend at a labour enrolment festival being held in that Gulf nation. There were 10,451 Indians among a total of 18,856 expatriate workers who registered with the LMRA in the first four days of the festival, which runs from June 4 to 21 at the Bahrain International Exhibitio

Columnist Jay Mariotti seems to pride himself on making enemies. He has been called a "pissant" by Jerry Reinsdorf, a "hiney bird" by Hawk Harrelson and much worse by Ozzie Guillen. A recent poll by the irreverent Deadspin.com Web site tabulated his national approval rating, based on some 8,000 votes, at 6.2 percent. TNT's Charles Barkley, who called Mariotti a "loser" during a March radio

Melbourne, June 9 : While Internet and emails may be boosting co-ordination among workers in an organisation, but on the flip side, they are also increasingly making people slaves to the electronic form of communication and offices less efficient, says an email consultant. Email Management Solutions managing director Sharon MacNevin said that there is 40 per [...]

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NAHAN: BJP workers today protested here against the recent hike in fuel prices and submitted a memorandum to Deputy Commissioner Sirmour demanding immediate withdrawal of increased prices of Petrol, diesel and LPG. Workers shouted slogans against the union government and alleged that this step of UPA government would further fuel rising graph of inflation in the [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports that "Tommy Thompson's Firm Wins Contract to Treat Sept. 11 Workers". Tommy Thompson--a former Governor of Wisconsin--served as Secretary Health & Human Services under President Bush.It isn't all that suprising--or necessarily bad--to see a government contract arrive at the door-step of a firm that is now headed by someone that used to work for President Bush. H

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — General Motors Corp. officially blew up its old business model Tuesday, closing four pickup truck and sport utility vehicle factories, announcing a new small car that could get 45 miles per gallon and shedding 8,350 jobs in the process. GM’s moves, which come after a series of restructuring measures since 2005, are [...]

Labor Ready Says Agriprocessors Violate Core PrinciplesPOSTVILLE, Iowa - A Waterloo company that was contracted to provide labor to Postville's Agriprocessors Inc. has pulled its estimated 150 workers out of the plant because of safety concerns.Labor Ready provides non-skilled labor on contract and had placed workers at the troubled meat processing plant for about 10 days when it pulled workers du

When Ohio's Kent State University offered custodial staff the option of working four days a week instead of five to cut commuting costs, most jumped at the chance, part of a U.S. trend aimed at combating soaring gasoline prices. "We offered it to 94 employees and 78 have taken us up on it," said university spokesman Scott Rainone. The reason is simple: rising gas prices and a desire to retain

About one quarter of GM’s blue-collar workforce of 76,000 accepted buyouts to leave their positions, the automaker announced today. These workers who were earning an average $28 per hour could be replaced by new workers starting at half that much. These generally older workers will vacate by July 1st. The fact that lower wage and [...]

In an age where video game blogging can be done anywhere, are we effected by the high gas crisis? Technology has improved, so the old school way of driving to work, 5 days a week, should be a thing of the past. Well it looks like Ohio’s Kent State University, has proposed the [...]

国労のデモ I was cycling around Akasaka and Nagatacho at lunchtime today, enjoying the cool, dry sunny weather – a pleasant respite from the recent cloudiness and beginnings of summer mugginess. I happened upon this demonstration happening directly across from the National Diet Building. It was in support of a case that goes back no less than 21 years!Back on April 1, 1987, Japan Railways w

AT&T is hiring some workers to take temporary positions at AT&T stores. The listing says from June 16th to August 16th, the temporary workers will have jobs. This is not unique to AT&T, surprisingly enough. Last year, in anticipation of the original iPhone, AT&T did the same thing, so that there would be no shortage [...]

If you are like many unemployed 8th grade dropouts with no experience outside of mopping, you are probably considering joining the fast food industry work force. While I commend you on your willingness to do menial work to earn an income and be a respectable citizen, McDonald's doesn't feel the same way. Apparently somewhere in their handbook it says that "in no case shall we hire intelligent, e

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Stress levels comparable to those seen in returning Afghanistan war veterans, study says THURSDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) — Workers and volunteers involved in recovery efforts at the World Trade Center following the 9/11 terrorist attacks have much higher levels of psychological distress than the general population, new research shows. More... Copyright © 2008 U.S. News & World Repor

66 University of Washington tech workers are going to be hitting the streets on the 30th of June 2008 due to a “perfect storm of events” that has lead to the largest layoff at the University in near a decade. The scary part is that this is a two part issue, [...]

A deal has been reached between the government and employers, that gives agency workers the same rights as full time employee’s, after 12 weeks. While business secretary John Hutton sees the agreement as “the right deal for Britain”, small business owners are concerned over what they see as an already expensive option to hiring full time [...]

"Jennifer, Angela has found some bruising on Daniel and she wants to have him go checked out by a doctor."I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. All I could do was sputter out a response. "Bruises? Wha... Where? How did she...? I don't know what.... How did ...? What? Bruises?"What I was thinking was that I knew that Daniel didn't have a single bruise anywhere on his body. I had given him

Chandigarh: The Punjab Election Commission has directed all electoral officers to accept nomination papers of anganwari workers provisionally as they were entitled provisionally to file nominations for Gram Panchayats. A spokesman of the state Election Commission said yesterday that pursuant to the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in all district electoral officers-cum-deputy [...]

Landlord locks out 167 foreign workers  - Singapore S’pore company allegedly owes $23,500 in rent for Joo Chiat quarters By Alvin Lim and Gabriel Yue  It was after midnight by the time landlord Mohamed Ali (in green) removed the lock and let the workers back in for a night’s rest. He said he resorted to the lockout to [...]

Unionists welcome NWC proposal to help low-wage workers- Singapore By Imelda Saad, SINGAPORE: Unionists have cheered the National Wages Council’s (NWC) proposal for companies to give rank-and-file workers a one-off lump sum to help them cope with inflation. While most companies agree that it is a good idea to give a lump sum to low-wage workers, [...]

It takes right stuff to draw young, hip creative industry workersMiami Today, FL - 1 hour agoBut the challenges she cited are weak public transportation, high rents and cost of living, and too few outdoor and cultural events. … Charlotte has no shortage of golf courses; in fact an avid golfer could probably play a different course everyday [...]

Open All Hours to Illegal Immigrant Doctors.British Doctors remain Unemployed. When looking at the NHS with a panoramic view and observing the contempt with which it has treated its junior doctors, it angers us to see that illegal immigrants are being employed as NHS doctors. There is a black hole where the MMC doctors have disappeared into. Many appear to have got depressed and others have moved

About 100 supporters gathered outside the Parliament house this morning in support of Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC) leaders handing over memorandum to Members of Parliament.Earlier, MTUC President, Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud went inside the parliament to hand over the memorandum to both Barisan Nasional's and Pakatan Rakyat's MPs.The peaceful protest however was disrupted when the police ask

The story indicates that if an autistic child was in danger in a fire, that if a firefighter told the child to get away from the burning building, the child might do the opposite. So, with a growing number of children having autism — one in 94 in New Jersey — some parents of autistic children are calling on officials here to require that police and fire employees undergo autism-awareness train

In Marketplace CNNMoney.com It Flies WellWith Workers AFLAC Employees Get Fat Salaries, Profit Sharing: 10 Best Big Companies Ketchup Firm Next to Go?Europeans May Buy US Brands Reach for It AllKids Drive 48 States in 5 Days10 Jobs That Pay $75 an Hour Next

TV’s Naked Office asks Workers to Strip Talk about dressing down. A new BBC3 show will ask people to go to work naked. The show ‘Naked Office’ plans to have cameras following fully clothed employees at work and gauging their views on nudity. Some will be asked to pose for life-drawing classes to see how comfortable they [...]

By Edwin Tshivhidzo, tel: (012) 314-2454 KwaZulu-Natal - KwaZulu-Natal Acting Provincial Executive Manager Edward Khambula has urged workers to be more vigilant and report any unsafe working conditions to their nearest labour centre. He said workers had the right to raise their health and safety concerns with labour inspectors, adding that labour inspectors relied on the co-operation between employees and employers in the fight to reduce the high rate of workplace accidents and fatalities. read more

May 5, CNNINDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AP) -- A pregnant bank teller who lost the twins she was carrying after being shot during a holdup choked back tears Saturday as she recalled lying on the bank's floor, bleeding and pleading for help, as the gunman demanded money from her co-workers.Katherin Shuffield, 30, said the masked gunman jumped over her teller station and shot her once in the abdomen April 22 just after the Huntington Bank branch had opened for the day.As she lay bleeding on the floor, she said the gunman, who remains at large, refused to let her co-workers call 911 to get her medical assistance."I said, 'Please help me! He shot me, he shot me! My babies!' He didn't let anybody do anything because he was more worried about taking the money," Shuffield said during a news conference

My people, mi gente...as I discussed on Episode 130, I hosted the Freedom Fest 2008 event this past Thurday at the Bowery Poetry Club. It was an amazing event , we were there black and brown tribes repping for Immigrant workers rights and for Sean Bell. Dj Disco Wiz and Dj Chela spinning on the ones and two. There were performances of some of the illest underground Mc's in the game right now. SUPA NOVA SLOM , NYOIL, REBEL DIAZ and a performance by KALUNGA NEG MAWON a dance group devoted to preserving Afro culture through music and dance. EMMA RAMOS from E2K MAGAZINE and IVAN SANCHEZ were in the house. Guerilla Repulik was repping hard and of course all the wonderful people who came to witness some of the illest performances and hear Mc's who speak truth and give knowlegde to the people. F

Posted by Kristina Cowan at PayScale: The cost of obesity is going up. According to a Conference Board report, obese workers cost private employers as much as $45 billion every year in medical expenses and lost work. That’s a heavy financial burden to bear. Does it justify employers hiring thinner job candidates, rather than those who are obese? Workplace discrimination such as this—or in any other form—is uncalled for. But the growing costs of obesity increase the odds of it happening, along with other problems for employees and employers. Everyone’s Problem For employees, it can be difficult to prove employers have discriminated against them because of their weight. But an article in the International Journal of Obesity says weight discrimination is already prevalent, and ju

Book Description ISBN-0131423304 “Enthusiastic employees outproduce and outperform. They step up to do the impossible. They rally each other in tough times. Most people are enthusiastic when they’re hired: hopeful, ready to work hard, eager to contribute. What happens to dampen their enthusiasm? Management, that’s what. The Enthusiastic Employee draws on 30 years of research and experience to show [...]

A strange silence was heard in the absence of comments from European nations regarding the brutalilty shown toward Turkish workers on May 1. May Day, a traditional workers’ holiday, is ordinarily marked by festivities and workers marching with banners to proclaim their solidarity with the working class. But, in Turkey, it is normal work day, [...]

The following chart shows the salaries of American workers compared to GDP. As you can see, it has been falling steadily since 1969. But for a few good years during the Clinton administration, American workers have very little to cheer about, having less participation in the economy than during the depression years. This is not the [...]

Workers’ Party and NTUC spar over foreign workers  - Singapore By Sue-Ann Chia    THE Workers’ Party (WP) and the labour movement engaged in a battle of words over the issue of foreign workers yesterday. The exchange had been sparked by labour MP Seng Han Thong’s criticism on Thursday of the opposition party’s May Day message. It had questioned if [...]

Singapore Foreign workers help to create jobs for Singaporeans By Dominique Loh, SINGAPORE: Instead of accusing foreign workers of taking jobs away from Singaporeans, one company said Singaporeans should be thankful that foreign workers are able to help the country’s economy to grow. This stance coincides with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s message in his May Day Rally [...]

Foreign workers help, not hinder us: Singapore  PM Lee Our economy would not have grown so much without them BY the end of his one-hour May Day Rally speech, the message coming from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was clear: all workers - young or old, educated or not, local or foreign, fresh to the workforce or [...]

As a worker, a citizen (of the world) and a human being, I am really disappointed and fed up with incompetent politicians, their policies, retoric and lack of vision, recurrently taking the role of the despicable and unscrupulous Sheriff of Nottingham, stealing from the poor to line the pockets of the rich.I strongly believe we will soon be needing a Robin Hood type figure to help us survive.

Thousands of Indonesians took to the streets of the capital Jakarta for Labour Day rallies on Thursday, with rising food prices and an expected cut in fuel subsidies weighing heavily on workers' minds."We are expecting more than 40,000 people demonstrating today," policeman Hariyadi said as thousands of workers gathered at the central Imam Bonjol traffic circle.Carrying banners reading "Lower Food Prices Now" and "More Pay for Workers and Farmers," many of the demonstrators said they were alarmed at soaring inflation and the prospect of sharply higher fuel bills. Many workers were also concerned that their rights were being eroded through companies' growing use of contract labourers hired from employment agents.Indonesia News Blog:

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Author: Pat Carpenter A 2005 Commonwealth Fund white paper reported on two important trends in the U.S. workforce - the increasing prevalence of workers in part-time, temporary, contract or non-standard positions, and the decline in access to employer-provided health insurance. The fact that fewer and fewer individuals in Dallas, Houston and throughout Texas are covered by health [...]

Source: ET WASHINGTON: Most of the claimants of the H1-B visas, much sought-after by skilled professionals including Indians, are people doing 'ordinary' work and not the geniuses as claimed by... For more info on latest job openings and other career related information visit my site

One of the big oil pipelines in the UK has been shut down by a strike giving oil bulls another reason to predict higher crude prices. According to Reuters "A... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Over 500,000 Vietnamese guest labourers working abroad have remitted more than 1.7 billion USD annually to the country, according to the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs. At a conference held in central Da Nang city on April 24 to introduce law on Vietnamese labourers working abroad under labour contracts, the ministry also revealed a national job generation strategy until

Millions of retirees wish that they could feel useful again. The only thing that is available to most of them is babysitting their grandchildren. Many would like to go back to work because they could use the extra money. But employers turn down elderly job applicants in favor of the young. This is age discrimination [...]

IBM last week disclosed that 100 of its researchers are giving Apple Inc. Macintosh computers a go to find out whether they are a strong option for use in the workplace. The pilot program, which began late in 2007, was launched to find out whether some of the company’s workers would be happier running a [...]

Wake up youth workers! We are in a global food crisis, and we who work with youth have a voice to do something about it. But, are we?  The Rethinking Youth Ministry Blog has a great post with questions about how to address issues of global poverty beyond an annual 30 hour Famine. Somehow ...

A campaign to prevent arms currently aboard a Chinese vessel that are destined for the dictatorial regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe may well halt the arrival of the weapons which would be used to crush those who oppose the ruler. The Congress of South African Trade Unions(Costau) called for an international boycott of the [...]

Massage parlors in a small Indonesian town are asking their female workers to padlock their skirts and pants to make it clear they're offering only massages, not sex. The move has been protested by the women's affairs minister of Indonesia, where massage parlors are often a front for prostitution. She said the padlocks insult women "as [...]

There's a police report out this week (see BBC item here) that effectively says that the influx of migrant workers to various parts of the UK has NOT led to a disproportionate increase in crime, despite what some think. It's simply a numbers game. From any 1000 people you are likely to have 10 who break laws, cause trouble etc. That's from any group, not just the migrants many have pointed the finger at. For people in and around Crewe where considerable numbers of economic migrants have arrived it would be easy to say that certain types of crime have increased. Apparently, that's not right. Moreover, take a look at the latest CNBC magazine/newspaper that hit the letterboxes over the last week and there's an article by a woman from MMU suggesting that people need to give migrant workers mor

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Often, injured workers choose to settle their cases with their employer’s insurance company in return for one-time cash payments. These settlements often take into consideration: Unpaid total temporary disability or partial disability benefits (TTD or TPD) TTD or TPD benefits likely to be owed in the future Future medical expenses Permanent disability benefits owed or likely to be owed Any penalties [...]

An injured employee covered by workers’ compensation is entitled to medical treatment at the employer’s expense. If the employee misses any work due to the injury or is permanently injured the employee is likely due one or more of three types of cash benefits. These cash benefits are: Total Temporary Disability (TTD) Total Partial Disability (TPD) Permanent Partial [...]

Medical Treatment under Georgia Workers’ Compensation The Good News: Unlike most situations with cash benefits, your medical benefits are basically never-ending. In other words, once you have an “accepted” claim, one in which your employer or their insurer has paid you income benefits or has paid for your medical treatment, your employer owes you treatment related to [...]

You know you are injured, but is your injury covered by Workers’ Compensation? Georgia’s workers’ compensation laws require that for compensation to be due, an injury to an employee must 1) “arise out of” and 2) “in the course of” employment. These are deceptively complicated requirements here in Georgia. There is no clear cut test [...]

What is Workers’ Compensation? In Georgia, Workers’ Compensation operates as a “no fault” system for compensating injured workers for time missed from work and for costs of necessary medical treatment. The system presents trade-offs for Georgia workers. While it bars claims against an employer for personal injury, it also bars some of the defenses an employer [...]

Many clients, sometimes after years of litigating a workers’ compensation claim, get to the frustration point where they decide: “I guess I’m going to have to sue my employer.” It is at this point that the harsh reality must be revealed (or reiterated). In most cases, if you have a workers’ compensation claim, you cannot [...]

We took another look into the world of robots were we found fighting robots, robots with four “legs”, a robot “battle royale” and two androids, Jules and “Albert Einstein”. “Big Dog” Robot (Boston Dynamics) Robot Match Robots battle for supremacy Albert (creepy robot) Einstein “Jules” designed and built by David Hanson. Image -God of the Robots Death by 1000 Papercuts Front [...]

Fordham Univ. Prof Paul Levinson: "Why should working families having trouble making ends meet take offense at a Presidential candidate recognizing that they may be feeling bitter? That's a normal human reaction, and ignoring or denying it - as Clinton and McCain are doing - is plain hypocrisy."read more | digg story