12/01/2009
These days, most employers are focusing hard on increasing per-employee output. By some measures, it’s working: Government statistics show large jumps in employee productivity. But some of those gains come when employees cut workplace safety corners to get more done. Don’t let that happen.
12/01/2009
For the first time in the United States, an employee has successfully won workers’ compensation benefits for mold exposure, even though the industry involved—a car dealership—normally has no greater exposure to mold than any other. Black mold exposure has caused tens of thousands of people to become sick—but most of those cases involve mold growing in people’s homes.