Tag: Workplace Safety/Health Issues
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Not enough employers provide menopause support, women say. Here’s why.
[ad_1] Not enough workplaces recognize menopause as a legitimate reason to take sick days or cover treatment expenses, female employees said in a new report. But most women wish they would, because they suffer from menopause-induced fatigue, loss of sleep and disrupted mental health — and all that has impacted their work life. Only about…
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Amazon fires union organizer at Alabama warehouse, union says
[ad_1] Amazon.com Inc. has fired a leader in the effort to unionize a warehouse in Bessemer, Ala., the union representing the workers there said. The organizer, Jennifer Bates, was terminated amid a monthslong dispute over workers’ compensation after suffering injuries while working at the warehouse, according to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which…
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As Indiana plastics facility burns, questions rise over recycling-center safety
[ad_1] As the fire at an Indiana plastics-recycling storage facility burned into its third day Thursday and officials scrambled to calm evacuated residents and measure air quality, larger safety questions emerged across a nation that relies on recycling to help offset the impact of teeming landfills and littered waterways. Are recycling centers — challenging to…
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Amazon worker injury rates still double those of other warehouse workers: study
[ad_1] For the second year in a row, an annual report’s findings that serious-injury rates at Amazon.com Inc.’s warehouses were more than twice the rates at other warehouses coincides with a shareholder resolution calling for an independent audit of worker health and safety. The injury rate of 6.6 per 100 workers at Amazon’s U.S. warehouses in…