Mar-Jac Poultry withdraws contest of citations; require added supervision, training HATTIESBURG, MS –The U.S. Department of Labor has reached a settlement agreement with a Hattiesburg poultry processing plant that requires the company to pay $164,814 in fines and implement enhanced safety measures to protect their employees from well-known machine hazards.The agreement follows an investigation by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration into the failure by Mar-Jac Poultry to use required safety procedures that would have kept a teenaged worker from being fatally caught in a machine as they cleaned it in July 2023. In addition to abating all violations cited by OSHA,…
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The Department of State announces the selection of The Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, in partnership with Design Connects and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art to represent the United States at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2025 with their exhibition, “PORCH: An Architecture of Generosity.” The exhibition will focus on the representation of the United States through the contemporary manifestation of the porch in American architecture – a quintessential constructed place that is at once social and environmental, tectonic and performative, hospitable and intimate, generous and democratic. The porch is an unheralded American…
Published: Wed 14 Aug 2024, 1:28 PM Last updated: Wed 14 Aug 2024, 1:46 PM James Cox Manchester United called on Irish actor Barry Keoghan to star in their latest kit launch video. The video shows the Dubliner walking the streets of Manchester, attending a park game, and speaking about his love of the game. The 31-year-old is a cousin of Frank Stapleton, who played for United in the 1980s, and the former Ireland international also makes a cameo in the video. United have previously released promotional videos with former stars like Roy Keane and Eric Cantona, along with celebrities…
The airline business has faced constant challenges when it comes to decarbonization and ESG. The trouble is that air travel is emissions-heavy, and there aren’t many ways to get around the impact that air travel has on climate. These technical limitations haven’t stopped companies from trying to get an environmental edge over their competition, however. The use of offsetting and “sustainable aviation fuels” led some airlines to make claims many view as greenwashing. Recently the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) issued an opinion against Virgin Atlantic that struck another blow against “sustainable aviation fuels.” In November 2023, Virgin released a…
GREENVILLE, TN – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment in a Tennessee federal court that requires a Kingsport staffing agency to stop employing children illegally and forbids them from future violations of federal child labor laws.The action comes after federal investigators uncovered oppressive child labor at a Morristown manufacturing facility that produces outdoor power equipment for major companies including John Deere, Toro and Yamaha. Entered on Aug. 12, 2024, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, the court’s action comes after the department’s Wage and Hour Division discovered several children employed in dangerous jobs at a…
Speaking from Sudan, UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) spokesperson James Elder described meeting a senior medical worker at a hospital outside Khartoum who had “direct contact with hundreds, hundreds of women and girls, some as young as eight years old, who have been raped. Many have been held captive for weeks on end.” The medic from Al Nao hospital in Omdurman also spoke “of the distressing number of babies born – born after rape – who are being abandoned now”, the UNICEF spokesperson continued, during an update to journalists in Geneva via videolink from the wartorn country. Countless horrors He maintained…
So certain is the Australian government that childcare workers are being poorly paid that it is handing them an extra 15% – 10% this December, followed by a further 5% in December 2025 – and speaking as if there’s more to come. It is calling the increases “interim” because it expects the Fair Work Commission to offer at least that much. The commission has begun an investigation into what “early childhood education and care workers” are actually worth compared to workers in other occupations. They’re not paid as much as most. On a list of the average hourly rates for…
The blazes that began Sunday near the village of Varnava, some 35 kilometers north of Athens, raged out of control on Monday and spread panic as flames reached densely populated neighborhoods which haven’t experienced wildfire in decades. The charred body of a 64-year-old woman was found inside a factory in the neighborhood of Vrilissia, around 14 kilometers from central Athens. Wildfires are frequent in Greece as summers become warmer and drier, though their encroachment on a major urban area is unusual. In 2018, 104 people died in a huge blaze in the seaside town of Mati close to Athens, while…
Social media algorithms should be disabled by default to protect people from “hateful, false and violent content”, the Irish and UK governments have been told. An open letter signed by over 240 organisations has called on Taoiseach Simon Harris, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Northern Ireland leaders Michelle O’Neill and Emma-Little Pengelly to take action following a spate of anti-immigration riots. It states: “We know that people’s real lives are affected by what plays out online. Right now social media and video platforms recommend hateful, false and violent content for people to see. “The business model prioritises emotionally manipulative…
The URBAN TECH final event, “Innovate for Europe – Greentech, Health Tech & Smart City Showdown”, took place on 6 June, as part of the Impact Days 2024, during ViennaUP, a city-wide celebration of innovation and entrepreneurship. The event provided a unique platform, for the over 20 companies of the URBAN TECH program, to meet with investors and pitch their groundbreaking solutions developed across the sectors of Greentech, HealthTech, and Smart City. The core activities of the event included two series of investor meetup sessions, where URBAN TECH companies had the opportunity to matchmake with an EU-wide network of investors, and the final…