Work Rules Contract Issues

* 1,000 injured, toll expected to rise * Cracks found in building day before collapse * Canada's Loblaw, UK's Primark had suppliers at site By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul SAVAR, Bangladesh, April 25 (Reuters) - Employees at a garment factory that...

* Around 2,000 rescued over two days * Cracks found in building day before collapse * Canada's Loblaw, UK's Primark had suppliers at site By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul SAVAR, Bangladesh, April 25 (Reuters) - Employees at a garment factory that...

* 228 dead, 1,000 injured, toll could go much higher * Cracks found in building day before collapse - police, industry official * Canada's Loblaw, UK's Primark say their garment suppliers at site By Serajul Quadir and Ruma Paul SAVAR, Bangladesh,...

When you go to work are you dressing appropriately? One superintendent in Southern Virginia says his employees aren't. Teachers, staff and volunteers in the Pittsylvania County school system have been told a new dress code is in the works for next...

History sometimes has a way of tying itself up with a little bow. That's the way I felt in January when I introduced Scott Prouty, the bartender-turned-videographer who helped sink Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, to Teddy Goff, the 28-year-old...

STANFORD — City Clerk Denise Pike is planning to step down from her position due to differences with Stanford's two newest city council members. On March 7, Pike announced her intention to resign, blaming newly-elected council members Tom Moser and...

STANFORD — City Clerk Denise Pike is planning to step down from her position due to differences with Stanford's two newest city council members. On March 7, Pike announced her intention to resign, blaming newly elected council members Tom Moser...

It can feel nearly impossible as individuals to affect issues like human rights and the health of our environment on a global scale. Many people feel like they want to do something but have no idea where to start, not realizing the power tool for change...

Consultant Jeff Ling of Florida-based Evergreen Solutions gave a compensation study presentation and accompanying 44-page report to the Gloucester Board of Supervisors on Tuesday night that they are taking under advisement. The county paid $30,000 to...

A helicopter crash in northern Los Angeles County that killed three people Sunday -- one of the worst film set accidents in recent years -- is likely to further fuel debate over whether working conditions on reality TV programs are unsafe. Three people...

I take issue with much of Lane Windham's recent commentary ("If not labor unions, then what?" Jan. 29) beginning with the fundamental premise that it was the unions that provided us with economic redistribution. Like many other academicians, Ms. Windham...

Just one month into 2013 and it's already time to award the first round of Flubbies — recognizing the region's biggest public-relations flubs. We're talking moves so dim they made the Superdome's third-quarter lights look bright. There's a...