Insurance jobs.
U.S. insurance industry payrolls shed 5,600 positions from August to September, as total U.S. non-farm payrolls declined at the greatest rate since March 2003, according to seasonally adjusted data released Oct. 3 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For the month, the industry's payrolls fell to 2.315 million,...

OSHA Head Joins Fisher & Phillips LLP.
Former Assistant Secretary Edwin G. Foulke, Jr. Joins Labor and Employment Firm's Workplace Safety and Catastrophe Management Practice Group ATLANTA, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Fisher & Phillips LLP, a leading national labor and employment law firm, announced that former Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and...

Oregon laws spell out timing of last paycheck.
Byline: Helen Russon Oregon Bureau of Labor?& Industries Question: Last week, my employee quit in an angry outburst. Now he's demanding that I give him copies of all his pay stubs over the last three years. When I told him I had already provided those every time...

Washington's watchdogs.
Federal Government: Congress creates laws and funding to implement policy through these agencies: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (www.ustreas.gov) * Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (www.occ.treas.gov) Regulates banks' insurance powers * Internal Revenue Service (www.irs.gov) Enforcement authority includes treatment of life...

Close to home for area biotech; State council CEO outlines initiatives.
Byline: Anna L. Griffin LEOMINSTER - For Robert K. Coughlin, president and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, initiatives for biotechnology hit home. "For my wife and I, this is personal," Mr. Coughlin said in a presentation made yesterday at the Vachon Wildlife...

Student nurse externship/ LNA grant funded.
The Vermont Department of Labor has awarded the Office of Nursing Workforce an Internship grant that will be launched in January 2009. "Phase II--Preparing Nursing Students for Employment in Vermont" is a response to the pressing imperative for Vermont health care organizations to assist in the education of our...

Rush to compromise: labor hits the canvas for Clinton.
There's a rumor going around Washington, D.C., that Hillary Rodham Clinton has privately urged union leaders to exert a little more pressure for national health-care reform. After all, if organized labor is continually signaling its eagerness to compromise, who will provide a counter-weight to the power of the insurance...

MSME sa Luneta.
Veering away from the traditional socio-civic parade, Kalayaan 2008 will be a three-day celebration of our independence by bringing government services ever closer to the people. The Department of Labor and Employment will have a job fair, but with a novel twist. Aside from posting vacancies and...

University faculty perceptions of students with learning disabilities: correlates and group differences.
Abstract. This investigation examined faculty attitudes, beliefs, and practices with regard to students with learning disabilities (LD). An instrument was designed to measure attitudes and administered to all faculty in a large urban, private university. Responses from 192 faculty members were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis; results indicated...