EEOC Collects Record &#36;420M for Workers
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The federal agency that enforces laws against employment discrimination collected a record &#36;420 million for aggrieved workers last year, when the number of complaints filed with the government was down slightly from the previous 12 months.
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Software giant contesting order to pay &#36;521 million in patent infringement verdict.
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Home Depot Inc., the world's largest home improvement retailer, agreed to pay &#36;5.5 million to settle discrimination claims brought by some workers at its Colorado stores, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Wednesday.
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James Hardie Industries has signed a landmark compensation agreement detailing how it will pay asbestos victims a compensation said to be worth over $4 billion over a 40 year period.
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The number of Americans filing  initial claims for jobless pay grew unexpectedly last week to  357,000, Labor Department data showed on Thursday, but an  official said an increase in the week after a public holiday  was typical.
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The widow of an Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant employee received &#36;125,000 Monday, one of the first checks issued by the U.S. Labor Department since it took over a long-delayed compensation program for Cold War-era defense workers from the Energy Department.
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The team collecting private donations to finance President Bush's inaugural festivities has taken in &#36;18 million, putting it nearly halfway to its goal of at least &#36;40 million.
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Workers at hair salons, restaurants, discount stores and other businesses are now speaking up and documenting the illegal practice.
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The number of US workers applying for unemployment aid grew more than expected last week. Thursday&#39;s Labor Department report says initial jobless claims grew by 14,000 - to 350,000 - mostly due to the hurricanes
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The Food and Drug Administration is giving workers more than $8 million in bonuses to keep them from defecting to pharmaceutical and other regulated industries, at the same time the agency is being pressed to spend more on food and drug safety.
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US employers added 337,000 workers in October - almost twice the median forecast â-s hurricane cleanup added jobs in places such as storm-struck Southwest Florida.
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The number of workers filing new claims for jobless aid jumped by a much larger-than-expected 69,000 last week to the highest in over two years, government data on Thursday showed, but the numbers were likely skewed by the timing of a public holiday.
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President Bush's inaugural committee is seeking to raise more than $40 million, a record.
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About 3,400 union workers at four BF Goodrich plants in Indiana and Alabama have approved a new contract that will save the company about 20 percent of its annual labor costs at four older plants.
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The number of workers filing new  claims for jobless aid jumped by a much larger-than-expected  69,000 last week to the highest in over two years, government  data on Thursday showed, but the numbers were likely skewed by  the timing of a public holiday.
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A record number people are working in the global economy but half of them make $2 a day or less, according to a report published yesterday.
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Boeing's announcement that a laptop theft exposed information on 382,000 current and former employees nudges the total number of exposed records in the United States past the 100 million mark. Since last year. In 27B Stroke 6.