Pandemic job loss affected millions of Americans, but for one group, Americans 55 and over, the impact continues.
About a 1/3 of the American workforce is over the age of 50 and according to a poll by AARP, 78% of older adult workers say they’ve seen or have experienced age discrimination in the workplace.
AKRON, Ohio – Christopher A. Gessner, the new CEO at Akron Children's Hospital, is focused on tackling what he sees as the organization's biggest challenges: staff retention and COVID-19 vaccine anxiety.
A growing number of companies are eliminating workplace drug testing to attract and retain workers amid a global labor shortage, a new development that experts say has potential to help create greater racial equity in the workplace.
The trend could help to level the employment playing field for Black and brown workers by removing a job requirement that’s a poor indicator of work performance.
Voters are worried about having enough money for retirement — and want more help from their workplaces to save for it, an AARP survey says.
Virtually all voters (99.7 percent) say that it is important for people to be able to save money for retirement while they are working. And 96 percent of voters with a workplace retirement plan say it’s important in helping them save for retirement. Nevertheless, more than 50 million American workers have no access to a retirement savings plan through their employers, and more than a quarter (26 percent) of nonretired adults have no retirement savings.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday that it was taking steps that could strip three states — Arizona, South Carolina and Utah — of their authority to regulate workplace safety, citing shortcomings in policies on coronavirus protection.
Under federal law, states can assume responsibility for occupational safety if the government approves their plan for doing so and if the plan remains at least as effective as federal enforcement.
There have been at least 30 strikes of healthcare workers so far this year, according to a tracker from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.