Business & Industry

Salem, OR — The Oregon Young Employee Safety Coalition is encouraging – with cash prizes – high school students statewide to create an advertisement for its annual media contest aimed at supporting young worker safety.

Oakland, CA — Women who use their employer-provided health benefits miss fewer days of work, results of a recent survey show.

Columbus, OH — The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation is making available $30 million in funding for research and development of personal protective equipment and technology innovations.

Tumwater, WA — A Washington state law that increases maximum reimbursements to employers in the Stay at Work and Preferred Worker programs is set to go into effect Jan. 1.

Washington — Employee concerns about well-being trended downward this year, according to the results of a recent annual survey.

Barcelona, Spain — Around 9 out of 10 employees are in favor of laws that would allow them to disconnect from email and other communications after hours, according to a recent survey.

Washington — Bureau of Labor Statistics staffers recently rediscovered a popular adage while searching through archives for the agency’s 140th anniversary: The more things change, the more they stay the same.

New York — Nearly 4 out of 5 retail workers have completed workplace violence prevention training, but only about half are confident they could deescalate a potentially violent situation, results of a recent survey show.

Chicago — One out of 5 workers who take a leave of absence to care for others end up taking leave for a medical condition of their own, results of a new analysis show.

Washington — Workers in private industry experienced fewer injuries and illnesses on the job last year than in 2022, according to Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses data released Nov. 8 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.