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What was once a flood of health care workers catching the coronavirus in Los Angeles County has now slowed to a trickle, in large part because the vast majority of them have been vaccinated, local public health officials said. Reports of new virus cases among health care workers in the …

The unions representing the nation’s health care workers have emerged as increasingly powerful voices during the still-raging pandemic. With more than 100,000 Americans hospitalized and many among their ranks infected, nurses and other health workers remain in a precarious frontline against the coronavirus and have turned again and again to …

Transform 2021 Join us for the world’s leading event about accelerating enterprise transformation with AI and Data, for enterprise technology decision-makers, presented by the #1 publisher in AI and Data Learn More Contractors and employees working at Alphabet companies like Google have formed the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU). More than …

The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said employees could be barred from the workplace if they refused the vaccine. Employers can require workers to get a Covid-19 vaccine and bar them from the workplace if they refuse, the federal government said in guidelines issued this week. Public health experts see …

The rooms that make up the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at Indiana University are lined wall to wall with identical shelves. Each shelf is filled with uniform racks, and each rack with indistinguishable glass vials. The tens of thousands of fruit fly types within the vials, though, are each magnificently …

When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here (Reuters) — The U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday proposed a pilot program to allow tech companies like Uber and Lyft to pay …

Back in Q4 2013, Hazim and 2 friends had just started their careers in the corporate world. They’d always wanted to start a business though, yet had no idea what to sell. Not to mention, they had little capital and no exposure to the business world. But one day, at …

After Saul Sanchez tested positive for the coronavirus at a hospital in Greeley, Colo., he spoke to his daughter on the phone and asked her to relay a message to his supervisors at work. “Please call JBS and let them know I’m in the hospital,” his daughter Beatriz Rangel remembered …

StratfordProductions / Shutterstock.com Where you work could affect more than how much you earn. Certain industries are associated with a higher percentage of workers in fair or poor health, according to a ZenBusiness analysis of the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Health Interview Survey. …