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MIAMI — Exactly a week after lobbyists succeeded in derailing Miami-Dade County’s landmark heat safety legislation, a lawmaker filed a bill in Tallahassee to block similar efforts in the future. And not just in Miami-Dade. The latest in a string of preemption edicts from the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature would block any city or county from setting standards to protect workers from the increasing risks of extreme heat. With Florida’s legislative session firmly over the halfway mark, efforts to block heat protections are moving forward in Tallahassee. And another measure, with standa...
Miami Herald
Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will pay profit-sharing bonuses on average of $10,400 to hourly autoworkers in the United States for 2023. The payout is a reflection of a new profit-sharing formula negotiated last year during contract talks with the United Auto Workers. Since the Dearborn automaker no longer reports financial results for North America, a new formula calculates the payout based on the company's global earnings figures, including Ford Credit. Ford recorded an adjusted operating income of $10.4 billion in 2023, which was flat year-over-year. For the first time, temporary employees...
The Detroit News
Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it lost $526 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 on increased revenue of $46 billion because of changes to pensions and post-retirement benefits following the United Auto Workers' 41-day strike at the company. For the full year, the Dearborn automaker recorded $4.3 billion in net income, a 2.5% margin, on $176.2 billion in revenue, up 11% year over year and surpassing expectations. The profit was up from a $2 billion net loss in 2022— results that had been driven by a mixture of execution issues, supply-chain woes and costs associated with lost investments. Wall S...
The Detroit News
SEATTLE — A company that's come under scrutiny for operating a gravel yard next to an elementary school in unincorporated Snohomish County sent the school's principal a letter this month warning her and her teachers to stop making public complaints about noise and dust from the yard — or else. The Mukilteo School District hasn't replied to the cease-and-desist letter from an attorney for Mountain Loop Mine, which lacks permits for the yard by Fairmount Elementary School. But the head of the local teachers union called the letter "shocking" and several legal experts questioned the approach. "Th...
The Seattle Times
Gov. Roy Cooper announced a new initiative Monday to help more formerly incarcerated people successfully transition to stable lives outside of prison. As part of that effort, Cooper signed an executive order directing agencies under his control to coordinate on improving what is known as prison reentry. Each agency has been given specific directives that include identifying more “second chance” employers, increasing access to career services, increasing work release, apprenticeship and employment opportunities, and improving the parole process. “Our communities are much safer, and much stronge...
The Charlotte Observer
NEW YORK — A Justice Department probe found that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo subjected at least 13 female staffers to a “sexually hostile work environment” and that his senior staff knew about the conduct and sought to strike back against his accusers, according to a settlement agreement dated Friday. The nine-page settlement, reached between Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, said the Justice Department inquiry determined that Cuomo ogled the women and subjected them to unwanted sexual comments and contact. Cuomo’s “senior staff were aware of his conduct and r...
New York Daily News
A 64-year-old construction worker died following an accident at the construction site for the new $3 billion Brooklyn borough jail in September in an incident not previously reported, the Daily News has learned. Yong Chin Son fell 18 feet through a hole that had been covered by loose planking while removing asbestos on the 11th story of the old Brooklyn House of Detention at 275 Atlantic Ave. in Brooklyn Heights, official accounts supplied to The News said. The shuttered 68-year-old jail was in the early stages of demolition to make way for the new jail. Son, of Flushing, Queens, was taken to ...
New York Daily News
Say hello to California’s budget shortfall. And potentially, wave goodbye to telework stipends. Ending the stipends is one way California Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to address a projected $38 billion shortfall. While Newsom’s finance department says no furloughs are planned, the budget does propose one small, although likely controversial, cost-saving measure involving state employees: cutting the state employee telework stipend. “That’s something that we will bargain with the unions,” said Joe Stephenshaw, the department director. California first offered the telework stipend to state workers as...
The Sacramento Bee
CHICAGO — In the Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General’s annual report released Tuesday, the district watchdog urged CPS to adopt new training protocols for volunteers and vendors as part of its ongoing efforts to address adult-on-student sexual misconduct. And, in light of investigations revealing the district potentiallylost tens of thousands of technology devices, cumulatively worth millions, and failed to verify fraudulent requests for extra pay, the OIG recommended expanded oversight. Among cases closed by the agency’s general investigations unit from July 2022 through June 2...
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — The Chicago Blackhawks filed a motion Tuesday to dismiss a negligence lawsuit brought by a former prospect who accused the team of covering up his complaints in 2010 that he was sexually assaulted and harassed by then-video coach Brad Aldrich. In the motion, the Hawks’ attorneys argue the suit should be thrown out on the grounds that it missed deadlines for filing and that its claims fail to meet the standards of what constitutes negligent or intentional “infliction of emotional distress.” In a statement to the Tribune, the NHL team said: “While we cannot comment further on active li...
Chicago Tribune
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