A new survey suggests that domestic workers are grossly underpaid and overworked despite New York's 2010 Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights stipulates that employers must at least pay a domestic worker, such as a nanny or cleaner,...
Month: December 2012
Fighting a spinal cord injury one step at a time
Because construction accidents often involve large machinery or heavy building materials, the injuries the accidents cause can be devastating. In cases of spinal cord injuries, the victim can be left paralyzed, unable to work or walk again.Accident victims with...
Flight attendants to benefit from OSHA oversight?
For the past 37 years, airline unions have sought the expansion of workplace safety protections for flight attendants. Late last month, U.S. labor and aviation agencies finally proposed doing just that. In essence, the most common workplace injuries and illnesses...
Worker killed at New York construction site
We don't know who performed the task of informing his young family, but it must have been a very difficult duty to carry out. There are no words with which you can break gently the news of the sudden loss of a father and husband.But that is what someone had to do...
Four workers injured in construction accident
There are reports today that four construction workers have been injured in an accident on a worksite far from us in New York.Initial reports indicate that the four Orlando, Florida workers were injured as a concrete floor was being lowered by crane. They were helping...