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Workplace Practices: Patterns, Performance and Well-Being
(2015-01-01)This report, based on the 2013 edition of the European Com- pany Survey, provides policymakers and practitioners with comprehensive information on workplace practices in terms of work organisation, human resource management, ... -
Workplace Safety and Health: Additional Efforts Needed to Help Protect Health Care Workers from Workplace Violence
(2016-03-01)[Excerpt] Workplace violence is a serious concern for the approximately 15 million health care workers in the United States. OSHA is the federal agency responsible for protecting the safety and health of the nation’s ... -
Workplace Violence Against Government Employees, 1994-2011
(2013-04-01)[Excerpt] The higher rates of workplace violence in the government were partly due to the high rates of workplace violence attributed to law enforcement and security employees (figure 2). The rate of workplace violence for ... -
Workplace Violence Prevention
(2019-01-31)[Excerpt] How well is your workplace addressing violence prevention?* Let’s start with your workplace’s definition: “workplace violence” brings to mind fights, physical or sexual attacks, murder, property damage, or arson; ... -
Workplace Violence, 1993-2009: National Crime Victimization Survey and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries
(2011-03-01)[Excerpt] This report provides an overview of fatal and nonfatal violence in the workplace. It discusses differences in workplace violence among various occupations. It includes trend information and discusses victim ... -
Workplace Violence: Why Every State Must Adopt a Comprehensive Workplace Violence Prevention Law
(2013-04-13)[Excerpt] On August 24, 2012, a fired clothing designer gunned down a former co-worker outside the Empire State Building in New York City. The violent act was the culmination of built up tension between two former co-workers. ... -
Workplace Wellness Programs: Are They Part of the Answer to the U.S.’s Growing Healthcare Crisis?
(2014-12-24)[Excerpt] Of the $2.8 trillion that the United States has spent on healthcare in recent years, the majority of it (75%) is spent treating chronic disease. Chronic disease is “a long-standing condition that can be controlled ... -
Works in Progress: Constructing the Social Dimension of Trade in the Americas
(2000-06-01)[Excerpt] This paper reviews labor rights in the trade arrangements of four regional and binational settings in the Americas: • the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) among Canada, Mexico and the United States; • ... -
‘Work’ is a Four Letter Word? Disability, Work and Welfare
(2003-12-03)[Excerpt] This chapter suggests that to overcome the problem of disabled people’s ongoing disadvantage in mainstream employment and, therefore, society, a radical alternative strategy is required that poses a direct challenge ... -
World Bank and IMF Child Labor Poster
(2008-08-01)Poster describing loan practices used by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which force poor countries to reduce social spending in education and the health system, resulting in an increase in child labor. -
World Champions in Hospital Privatisation: The Effects of Neoliberal Reform on German Employees and Patients
(2011-01-01)[Excerpt] Over the past decade, German hospitals have been privatised at a rate not seen in any other country. In response to massive public-sector debt and the resulting investment backlog, many state and local governments ... -
World of Work Report 2008: Income Inequalities in the Age of Financial Globalization
(2008-01-01)[Excerpt] Since 2007, the world of work has been hit by a number of global developments, in particular financial turmoil, rising food prices and a shortage of raw materials. This has brought an end to the rapid growth and ... -
World of Work Report 2012: Better Jobs for a Better Economy
(2012-01-01)[Excerpt] The World of Work Report 2012 provides a comprehensive analysis of recent labour market and social trends, assesses risks of social unrest and presents employment projections for the next five years. The report ... -
World Report on Disability, Chapter 8: Work and Employment
(2011-01-01)Across the world, people with disabilities are entrepreneurs and selfemployed workers, farmers and factory workers, doctors and teachers, shop assistants and bus drivers, artists, and computer technicians (1). Almost all ... -
World Social Security Report 2010-2011: Providing Coverage in Times of Crisis and <i>Beyond</i>
(2010-11-16)[Excerpt] There is little hope that the Millennium Development Goals will be reached without a decisive global move towards introducing a national social protection floor of basic social security benefits in countries where ... -
World Trade & U.S. Jobs
(1989-04-01)[Excerpt] It has become obvious to everyone in and around the U.S. labor movement that our problems involve the global arena. Hundreds of thousands of trade unionists have seen their employers shut down plants and shift ... -
World Trade Organization (WTO) Decisions and Their Effect in U.S. Law
(2011-02-04)[Excerpt] Congress has comprehensively dealt with the legal effect of World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements and dispute settlement results in the United States in the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), P.L. 103-465. ... -
World Trade Organization (WTO): Issues in the Debate on Continued U.S. Participation
(2010-06-16)[Excerpt] Following World War II, the United States led efforts to establish an open and nondiscriminatory trading system with the expressed goal of raising the economic well-being of all countries and bolstering world ...
