NEW YORK – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a federal court judgment requiring 15 gas stations – operating under brands such as BP, Mobil and Sunoco – in Bronx, Nassau and Suffolk counties and their owner and president to pay more than $1 million in back wages and liquidated damages to more than 100 current and former employees in response to a federal investigation. In March 2022, the department’s Office of the Solicitor filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York based on an investigation by the department’s Wage and Hour Division which found that from…
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“There were 87,000 vaccinated on the first day out of 156,000 that we are hoping to reach in the Middle Area,” said Louise Wateridge, Senior Communications Officer for UNWRA, the largest UN agency in the Gaza Strip. “It’s very promising that already, we have heard interest from parents who have come from Khan Younis, who have come from the southern area, and are asking our staff there and asking our teams, ‘When is the vaccination going to be available for us? When can we take our children?’” Ms. Wateridge emphasized the urgent need for a ceasefire for the inoculation campaign…
In the first four months of 2024, more than 30,000 children traversed the dense jungle region separating Colombia and Panama, marking a significant increase compared to the same period last year. Among them, about 2,000 were unaccompanied or separated from their families. Additionally, the number of children in transit grew five-times faster than the number of adults, the data showed. No place for children “The Darién Gap is no place for children. Many children have died on this arduous, dangerous journey. Women have given birth while en route, bringing new life into the world in the most challenging of circumstances.…
Yaounde – On August 20, 2024, the National Disarmament Demobilization, and Reintegration Committee (NDDRC) received strategic training on gender at its office in Yaounde. The main objective of this training was to enhance the capacity of NDDRC staff to integrate gender considerations into national DDR processes. This workshop is part of the GYPI project intitled « Enhancing Women’s Meaningful Involvement in DDR Policy Design and Implementation in Cameroon Based on the National DDR Gender Strategy 2021-25: Strengthening Platforms for Women’s Associations», funded by the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) and implemented by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in collaboration…
Peak Inn, Adair’s Saloon owner, Joe Morales cited for wage, recordkeeping violations DALLAS – Bartenders at two Dallas-area restaurants who depend on good tips in return for great service will recoup $197,902 in earnings after federal investigators found the establishments’ owner and operator forced them to share tips with non-tipped employees illegally.The recovery follows an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that discovered The Peak Inn LLC and Adair’s Saloon Inc. operated an illegal tip pool when the employers shared tips earned by 20 bartenders with the restaurants’ cooks. The division found the employer violated federal minimum…
The WFP’s Executive Director Cindy McCain said the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), which is managed by the UN’s food agency, enabled humanitarians to respond quickly to crises in the “deep field.” WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain checks out the devastation wrought by an El Niño-intensified drought in Zambia. Cindy McCain and Franklyn Frimpong, the UNHAS chief of aviation, have been discussing the importance of the life-saving service. Cindy McCain: UNHAS makes WFP and other agencies work. UNHAS gives us the ability to reach the deep field and parts of the world that are absolutely impossible to get to otherwise,…
Released on Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), the report explained the hardships civilians faced, including physical and long-term socioeconomic harm. It also emphasised the human rights impact of Russia’s renewed large-scale attacks on critical energy infrastructure in March, the ground offensive in the Kharkiv region in May and other developments in occupied and Government-controlled areas of Ukraine. Relentless attacks “With May having the highest monthly number of civilian casualties in nearly a year, fighting this spring took a horrific toll on civilians, particularly in Kharkiv region and city,” said Danielle Bell, head of the…
Akila and Maria, one Trinidadian and the other a Venezuelan migrant. Both are women with a common goal: to train and educate themselves in order to provide their families with economic stability.Akila Gonzalez-Parris and Maria Requena are part of a group of women and men who participated in the Flourish Empowering Resilience and Integration programme carried out by the International Organization for Migration through the Women-Owned Media & Education Network (WOMEN).Akila is a 29-year-old Trinidadian woman and mother of a 4-year-old girl.Before the workshop, she helped her husband in his upholstery business.She believes the programme is an opportunity for her…
To support the sector’s continued decarbonization, the Manifesto includes priorities on heavy-duty vehicle CO₂ standards, electricity grid capacity and the harmonization of urban vehicle access restrictions across the EU, which are becoming an increasing market barrier. The shift to zero-emission vehicles is central to the EU’s climate goals. At the same time, there is no silver bullet for transport decarbonization. Combustion technologies based on low-carbon and carbon-neutral fuels are an alternative, and equally suitable from a climate perspective. The immense diversity of vehicle mission profiles, including special profiles such as for moving chemical substances or tool-trucks (e.g. trucks with incorporated…
It’s just over a year since Health Minister Stephen Donnelly announced that there would be public funding for assisted human reproduction (AHR) treatment in Ireland.This was a great leap forward given that the technique was pioneered successfully by Nobel Prize-winning physiologist Robert Edwards and co-workers Patrick Steptoe and Jean Purdy 48 years ago in Oldham, England.Their breakthrough led to the birth of Louise Brown on July 25, 1978, who became known as the world’s first “test tube baby” although the conception actually took place in a Petri dish. Since then, it is estimated that some 12m babies have been born…