Americans get fewer vacation days in 2012, study finds
In 2012, Americans reported receiving 12 days of vacation, compared with 14 days last year. Of those 12, they're expected to take only 10 this year, according to Expedia's annual Vacation Deprivation study. Even so, American workers still take more ...www.cnn.com
US Workers May Give Up Time Off as Storm Aid
Published: November 7, 2012. The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that American employees could donate, through payroll deductions, their vacation, sick and personal leave days to organizations helping with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.www.nytimes.com
US Workers Least Happy With Their Work Stress and Pay
These ratings contrast with the more than half of workers who feel completely satisfied with other aspects of their work, including relations with coworkers, physical safety conditions, flexibility of their hours, their boss, and vacation time. Workers ...www.gallup.com
Sick Days: Most Workers Come To Work When They're Sick, Contagious ...
Shockingly, nearly 40 percent of private-sector workers don't received paid sick days and the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee paid sick leave, according to the Center For American Progress. Close to one quarter of adult ...www.huffingtonpost.com
National Survey Reveals Americans Prefer a Night in Jail to Losing Job Benefits
Benefits such as health insurance, 401K matching, paid time off and life insurance are so critical, more than half of U.S. workers (60 percent) would rather spend a night in jail than go without. "Our goal here was to get a national view of what ...www.sacbee.com
America the Third-World Nation in Just 4 Easy Steps
America's working class no longer builds TVs or computers or furniture on assembly lines; they now flip burgers at McDonalds and turn down the sheets at Holiday Inns. And those high-skilled workers who used to design the marvels of manufacturing now ...truth-out.org
Donating Your Vacation Time
In recent years many companies have begun offering employees greater flexibility in managing their vacation time and other "leave" days, such as allowing them to buy or sell extra days, while limiting time carried over from prior years that puts a ...online.wsj.com
Still Have Unused Vacation Days? Fall Is A Great Time To Use Them
According to the most recent American Express Spending & Saving Tracker, U.S. employees have an average of eight unused vacation days this fall. Not only that, but 38% of workers are expected to lose them completely. While some people don't know they ...www.gadling.com
Holiday short story by Manil Suri: 'The Silver Spring Laxmi'
Paradoxically, the presence of foreign co-workers simply increased the pressure to conform: the constant jockeying to see who could dress and sound and behave the most "American" (it was understood what color), to be the one management picked to ...www.washingtonpost.com
The American vacation gap
It's a pretty common complaint among Americans that vacation time is not plentiful enough. That's not a complaint you hear in most other civilzed countries.www.journaltribune.com
A Part-Time Life, as Hours Shrink and Shift
But in one crucial respect, Fresh & Easy is just like the vast majority of large American retailers: most employees work part-time, with its stores changing many of their workers' schedules week to week. At its store here, just east of San Diego ...www.nytimes.com
Foundation makes dream for ocean vacation come true
Doug Mills, Berlin, knew he needed help when his wife Debbie was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease in March 2008. He just didn't know who to ask.articles.dailyamerican.com
BP Oil Spill Settlement Announced
An army of workers hired by British Petroleum, along with the US Coast Guard and local officials in Louisiana, have rushed to set out protective booms, spread dispersants and burn the oil when they can as it moves toward the shore.www.huffingtonpost.com
Retrospective of George Bellows features best of US artist
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Paintings of boxers, gritty tenements, waterfront workers, as well as bucolic parks, portraits, and scenes of domestic tranquility form a new retrospective of the works of George Bellows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.www.chicagotribune.com
That's capitalism, folks!
The European Union requires a four-week vacation. Europe has more paid holidays than America does. France has long mandated a 35-hour week.www.newsreview.com
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, Tupelo, Dennis Seid column
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans gave up an estimated 226 million vacation days last year. That translates to more than 34 billion worth of time lost on unused vacation days. A CNN story said an average American worker getting 14 ...www.menafn.com
Ford's emergency training pays lifesaving dividends
He wasn't on vacation and he wasn't on layoff. He was ... "The actions that his co-workers took to save his life were extraordinary and we applaud their quick action," said Jim Tetreault, Ford vice president of North America manufacturing. "The ...www.detroitnews.com
How a Robot Will Steal Your Job
That's about how much a human assembly line worker might earn annually. Except that Baxter will never ask for a bathroom break, health insurance, or vacation time. "This robot is never going to build an iPhone," ... It was just this week that Foxconn ...gizmodo.com
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Now, as many as half the workers at the Michigan factory assembling Sonic and Verano sub-compact cars make less than the $19.10 hourly average U.S. manufacturing wage and lack traditional union retiree benefits. The U.S. economic recovery .... The pay ...www.bloomberg.com
Glaeser: Barack Obama's welfare state needs Republican guardians
The Swedes and the French spent 3.9 and 3.1 percent of GDP respectively on unemployment and other labor-market programs; Americans spent four-tenths of 1 percent on them. U.S. tax rates compared with Europe's were higher for poorer workers and ...www.newsday.com
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