A panel of experts appointed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to investigate troubled plane manufacturer Boeing’s safety management processes has found “gaps” in its “safety journey” and a “disconnect” between senior management and employees. The FAA published its 50-page report on Feb. 26, noting its experts had identified 27 areas where Boeing’s safety procedures […]
Job-seekers, take note: New research shows that employees who are more “agreeable” make better team members. It’s a trait that hiring managers are seeking right now. Why are they looking for agreeableness, and what other traits are they looking at?
Tens of thousands of federal employees have failed to file a tax return for multiple years, an inspector general reported this week. An analysis of data from fiscal year 2016 through fiscal year 2020 found more than 42,000 federal workers have “repeatedly failed to file a tax return for multiple years,” the Treasury Inspector General for Tax […]
Tesla Inc. boss Elon Musk said on Monday he will serve as chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he just bought for $44 billion. Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink, and tunneling firm the Boring Company, fired Twitter’s previous chief, Parag Agrawal, and other top company officials last week. […]
More than 50 officials in President Joe Biden’s administration across a dozen agencies have been involved with efforts to pressure Big Tech companies to crack down on alleged misinformation, according to documents released on Aug. 31. Senior officials in the U.S. government, including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty, […]
Small businesses are having a hard time keeping a positive outlook recently. We already know that the Small Business Optimism Index hit an all-time low. One of the top concerns is worker shortage. Half of all business owners surveyed say they can’t fill open positions. NTD speaks to Karli Waldon, President and COO of Talent War […]
A multi-billion-dollar pandemic-era stimulus program meant chiefly to help small businesses keep staff on the payroll and hire back laid off employees was poorly targeted, with only about one-quarter of the money supporting jobs that would otherwise have disappeared, a new Fed report shows. Lockdowns and a collapse in consumer spending during the first wave […]
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Tuesday claimed that the FBI is “purging” employees who hold conservative viewpoints. In a letter (pdf) to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Jordan, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, said that multiple whistleblowers at the law enforcement agency had come forward alleging retaliatory actions to employees who had engaged in “disfavored […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Ohio school districts could begin arming employees as soon as this fall under legislation approved by Republican lawmakers and set to be signed by GOP Gov. Mike DeWine. Democrats said the proposal, which is optional for schools, sends the wrong message a week after the massacre of 19 children and two teachers at an […]
The operator of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline has terminated contracts with all its employees after it was hit with U.S. sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nord Stream 2 AG was sanctioned by the United States last week after Russia recognized two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine prior to its invasion of the country, […]
A U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday said it would not reinstate President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, declining to overrule a lower court ruling that put the order on hold. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to stay the lower-court injunction against the mandate by a 2-1 vote and asked both parties to […]
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is set to lose 4,000 employees who have not been vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19. The LA County Board of Supervisors is set to vote on the potential termination of 18,000 employees who have not complied with the COVID-19 vaccination requirements on Tuesday, the Los […]
The highest court in the state of Louisiana upheld a hospital COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees, ruling that a top hospital can fire employees that do not comply with its policy. “This court finds Employer is entitled to terminate Employees for failure to comply with the vaccine mandate,” said the unanimous court decision, authored by […]
Citigroup, the nation’s third-largest bank, said Thursday that it will require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 as a condition of employment. In a post on Linkedin, Sara Wechter, Head of HR, said that the decision was influenced by two key factors. “First, as the U.S. government is a large and […]
A district court judge in Washington, D.C. issued a temporary injunction Thursday that bars both civilian and military plaintiffs from being fired after they filed a lawsuit against the White House’s vaccine mandate. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, issued a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction prohibiting preventing the plaintiffs […]
The Federal Reserve recently warned that vaccine mandates were impacting employment. Meanwhile, United Airlines says it’s paying millions of dollars per month to keep unvaccinated workers on paid leave. For now, it can’t implement its vaccine mandate because of an ongoing lawsuit.
