DETROIT — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroit’s east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood. Built in the early 1900s and still churning out high-end ...
Lisa Haglund, president and CEO of Heritage Ministries, announced that Paul DeSantis has been named chief financial officer of the organization. DeSantis comes to Heritage with a qualified background including nearly two decades in health care and financial management, most recently serving ...
A recent study by The Empire Center shows that New York still lags behind most of the nation in terms of recovering jobs lost at the start of the pandemic. Last week, the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank reviewed the most recent state and federal seasonally adjusted employment data. It found the United States would have completed its job recovery from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic by now if not for New York. The information through last month showed the U.S. had recovered 99.8% of the total number of jobs the country had in February 2020, the last month before the COVID ...
A four-day workweek sounds appealing to workers. Possibly alarming to employers. A bill introduced in the California legislature earlier this year proposed a regular pay rate for 32 hours of work per week, with overtime kicking in after that. The measure stalled in committee for a lack of broad support but could resurface in 2023. Meanwhile, 4 Day Week Global, a nonprofit foundation associated with Oxford University, is piloting a six-month trial of a four-day workweek “with no loss of pay for employees.” More than three dozen companies in the U.S. and Canada are participating in ...
Cummins Inc. is partnering with a Texas company to optimize Cummins’ natural gas engines for use in the Hyliion Hypertruck ERX. The engines would be used in Class 8 trucks, which have a gross vehicle weight rating exceeding 33,000 pounds and include tractor-trailers, some single-unit dump ...
Jeff Parks, chief operating officer of Dawson Metal Company Inc., along with Steve Thorpe, business agent of Local No.112 of the Sheet Metal Air Rail and Transportation Workers Union, jointly announced a new three-year labor agreement. The labor agreement enhances pay and benefits for the ...
