News in category: In The Workplace

The purpose of Drug-Free Work Week is to highlight the benefits of drug-free workplace programs and to raise awareness of the many resources available to achieve safe, healthy and drug-free work environments.

Microsoft said a minority of Sidekick users lost personal contacts, calendars, notes, tasks, and pictures due to a system failure of its "cloud" technology, the largest failure so far.

A six-member Florida jury will decide if it was unwarranted and unreasonable to deport a brain-injured Guatemalan man who was hit by a drunk driver while working in the U.S. The hospital spent more than $1 million on his care then chartered a private plane to return him, where he lives in a remote one-room home with his elderly mother. 

The Cancer Project, a nonprofit, would like processed meats such as hot dogs, to be labeled with a warning of a link to colorectal and other cancers. Regular consumption of hot dogs preserved with nitrosamines have been cited by numerous cancer researchers. The food manufacturers deny any link. 

Health care reform in the U.S. is heating up with three bills being considered by Congress and President Obama addressing the nation tonight. Requiring everyone to purchase insurance is a common thread, while a system that eliminates insurance companies as middle men is advocated by many physicians, including the president's former physician. 

The number of Hispanic workers who have died on the job has risen by 76 percent, while the overall total of workplace deaths has declined, according to the latest available data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Harry and Louise, the fictional characters who scared Americans about socialized medicine in the 90s, are back and this time their message has done a turnabout as they support health care reform. 

The World Health Organization says the swine flu is "unstoppable" and that healthcare workers should be the first ones vaccinated. This influenza is different from seasonal flu in that it affects young people, the severely obese, and adults and strikes deep in the lungs and drug makers are receiving millions to formulate a vaccine. 

Wendell Potter used to talk to reporters on behalf of Big Insurance but after almost 20 years, he knew something wasn't right. Now he's speaking about Big Insurance to Congress, reporters, and on Bill Moyers tonight, telling insider secrets and adding a diverse voice to the health care reform debate.   He gives a insurance insider preview to IB News.

OSHA is opening a probe into what killed a monorail operator at Walt Disney World in Florida. 21-year-old Austin Wuennenberg’s died Sunday when a monorail crashed into a second one around 2.a.m. It is the first death ever in the history of the monorail.

The Washington Post offered to lobbyists, lawmakers and corporations, nonconfrontational and off-the-record access to reporters for $25,000 to $250,000 -  a direct conflict-of-interest to the Code of Ethics followed by American journalists  - "Deny favored treatment".  

The CDC is working on a vaccination campaign to encourage all 300 million Americans be vacciniated against the swine flu which health officials admit cannot be contained. 

Breaking with the business community, Wal-Mart is backing President Obama’s plan to require employer-back health insurance coverage for all employees. The nation's largest retailer currently employs 1.4 million in the U.S.

 The banking the business community are expected to pounce on the new Obama plan to create an agency overseeing financial products such as credit cards and mortgages. More information would have to be disclosed to consumers and interest rates could be capped, hurting the banks' bottom line. No more government is needed say critics.

The subway cars involved in a deadly crash in the nation’s capital Monday were cited as unsafe three years ago, but were never replaced because of the cost.  That information is emerging as 19 NTSB investigators search for clues into the cause of the rush hour wreck that killed nine people and injured 70.