Employer name: Turf Paradise Inc.Investigation site: 41 3rd Ave. Longmont, CO 80501 Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division found Turf Paradise Inc. failed to pay overtime to 56 workers when the Longmont snow removal and landscaping company improperly claimed an exemption for seasonal recreational and amusement workers. The employer paid the affected workers their base rate when they should have paid time and one-half their regular…
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Elizabeth Spehar, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support, addressed the Council’s high-level debate on the UN Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace. Launched in July 2023, the policy brief shows how conflict prevention and peacebuilding can help to reverse the trend towards violence while reducing the human and economic costs of war. Break the cycle “Prevention and peacebuilding can break the cycle of violence and lay the foundations to ensure sustainable development is possible for all,” she said. The meeting – convened by Sierra Leone, the Council president for August – was held against the backdrop of a rise in conflict globally.…
Nairobi – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is appealing for USD 18.5 million to provide crucial health-care services to migrants, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and host communities in East, Horn, and Southern Africa at risk of mpox. “The spread of mpox across East, Horn, and Southern Africa is a grave concern, especially for the vulnerable migrant, highly mobile populations and displaced communities often overlooked in such crises,” said Amy Pope, IOM Director General. “We must act swiftly to protect those at the highest risk and to mitigate the impact of this outbreak on the region.” Mpox has been…
Members of Seychelles received their kit to build their robot on Tuesday and were given several tools. (Seychelles News Agency)Photo license Starting next year, the school curriculum in Seychelles will include a digital skills component, said a top government official on Tuesday after handing over the kits and tools to the team participating in the First Global Robotics Challenge this year. The principal secretary for Education Sector Development, John Lesperance, told reporters that this competition fits the government’s plan to promote the digital economy, especially digital skills. “The Ministry of Education is currently developing frameworks and tools that will be…
Migrants and other marginalized and highly mobile populations including those uprooted from their homes by natural emergencies and conflict are far more prone to infection because of poor living conditions and the “significant barriers” many often encounter in seeking help, explained the International Organization for Migration. “The spread of mpox across East, Horn and Southern Africa is a grave concern, especially for the vulnerable migrant, highly mobile populations and displaced communities often overlooked in such crises,” said Amy Pope, IOM Director General. “We must act swiftly to protect those at the highest risk and to mitigate the impact of this outbreak…
The narrative around the infiltration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our professional lives is often tinged with fear. Can a computer do what I do faster and more cheaply? Will my skills become obsolete? What if a robot takes my job? Software programmers are at the forefront of facing up to this fear. AI assistants that write code are not science fiction but becoming an established part of software development practices. While AI may not completely replace human-coded software, its growing capabilities are undoubtedly reshaping how software is written and used. We carried out a research project to find out…
“There has been a very clear intensification of the war over the past couple of months,” said Denise Brown, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine. “On my last trip to Ukraine two weeks ago, there were 12 sirens during the day and 12 explosions. There’s a constant disruption to daily life in the city of Kharkiv,” she told journalists in Geneva. The Russian military staged a fresh incursion into the Kharkiv region on 10 May, seizing the town of Vovchansk and intensifying aerial attacks on Kharkiv city, Ukraine’s second largest urban centre, with some one million inhabitants fearing for…
Yaoundé, 18-19 July 2024 – A workshop to harmonise the questionnaire for collecting data from crisis-affected populations in the Far North, Northwest and Southwest regions was held under the leadership of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in collaboration with the United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM). The aim of the workshop was to revise the questionnaire used for multi-sectoral needs assessments of crisis-affected populations. The event brought together those responsible for the various humanitarian sectors, such as shelter, non-food household items, water, hygiene and sanitation, education, health, protection, food security and livelihoods, nutrition,…
A Senate inquiry has failed to reach agreement on whether the federal government should spend A$1.5 billion on a major industrial hub in Darwin – spending critics say amounts to a huge fossil fuel subsidy. The project, known as the Middle Arm Industrial Precinct, involves developing a manufacturing and minerals hub on a peninsula at Darwin Harbour. The project would span about 1,500 hectares and include, among other infrastructure, the third liquified natural gas (LNG) export hub on the peninsula. Traditional owners say the hub would damage Sea Country and cultural heritage. Other submissions to the inquiry raised concerns about…
WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su called on Congress to modernize the nation’s unemployment insurance system in an opinion piece published online Aug. 16, 2024, by The American Prospect. In addition to recognizing the Biden-Harris administration’s success in promoting a strong job market, the Acting Secretary argues federal legislators must take the necessary steps to modernize our unemployment insurance system before the next crisis.The article details the Department of Labor’s comprehensive plan to transform the UI system and highlights how the department has successfully improved the timeliness of benefits delivery, made access to benefits more equitable and helped…