Tag: worker
A small Montana town grapples with the fallouts from federal worker cuts
From By Katheryn Houghton HAMILTON, Mont. — Scientists are often careful to take off their work badges when they leave the campus of one of the nation’s top biomedical research facilities, here in southwestern Montana’s Bitterroot Valley. It’s a reflection of the long-standing tension caused by Rocky Mountain Laboratories’ improbable location in this conservative, blue-collar…
Care worker recruitment from abroad to end, Cooper says
Care workers will no longer be recruited from overseas as part of a crackdown on visas for lower-skilled workers, the home secretary has told the BBC. Yvette Cooper said it is “time to end that care worker recruitment from abroad” and rules will change this year – instead requiring firms to hire British nationals or…
Gutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. Worker
Opinion Gutting NIOSH Endangers Every U.S. Worker I was fired from my job as a scientist at the only federal agency dedicated to the science of workplace safety. The Trump administration’s cuts put the U.S. workforce in danger By Catherine Blackwood For most of us, it is a foregone conclusion that you will go to…
Aid worker describes lucky escape from deadly Russian strike
A UK-based aid worker said he, his friends and colleagues were “so lucky to be alive” after they narrowly escaped a Russian missile attack on a hotel in central Ukraine on Wednesday night that left at least four dead. Karol Swiacki, a Polish national and founder of the Bournemouth-based charity Ukraine Relief, was at the…
A federal worker tried to take Trump’s ‘Fork’ resignation offer. Here’s what happened
Andrea Hsu The “Fork in the Road” email arrived in Liz Goggin’s inbox around 11 p.m. on Jan. 28th. The email blast from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) went to nearly all federal employees — some 2.3 million people across the U.S. The memo presented federal workers with a choice: Offer your resignation…