DOE pension obligation to contractors has more than doubled

By Laurel Adams

Energy's antiquated contractor system leaves taxpayers footing pension bills

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ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care system is crumbling fast, may not survive

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care has been crumbling for several years
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ANALYSIS: Cost of health coverage leaves working folks further and further behind

By Wendell Potter

ANALYSIS: Employer-based health care system demanding more from families with stagnating wages

ANALYSIS: Health savings accounts lucrative for insurers, costly for consumers

By Wendell Potter

Insurers fight requirement to spend 80% of premium on care

IMPACT: Reform boosts workplace safety even while companies appeal inspectors' conclusions

By Jim Morris and Emma Schwartz

Some employers must fix hazards while challenging regulators' findings

Excerpts from this story referencing "Labor":

"… , according to Michael Silverstein, who heads the Washington Department of Labor & Industries’ Division of Occupational Safety and Health.“The curr …"

"… delay abatement simply by appealing.”Washington state’s Department of Labor & Industries is writing rules that will determine how the new law is e …"

"… oro challenged inspectors’ conclusions. “We disagree with L&I’s [Labor & Industries’] characterization of Tesoro’s operations at Anacorte …"

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Investigations Around the World

By Simona Raetz

Illegal sale of pesticides in Croatia; a ponzi scheme in Tanzania; Utah state employees conspiring to report undocumented workers

ANALYSIS: Insurers's bait and switch

By Wendell Potter

Analysis: Insurers fooling consumers with cynical bait and switch promising low premiums

Less than 2 percent of 'Sarbox' corporate whistleblowers win inside federal bureaucracy

By Michael Hudson

Less than 2% of 'Sarbox' whistleblowers win

Excerpts from this story referencing "Labor":

"… licing workplace safety is OSHA’s main job within the U.S. Department of Labor bureaucracy, the agency is also responsible for enforcing 21 whistleblower …"

"… rs and commercial sailors who report safety hazards.Assistant Secretary of Labor David Michaels said OSHA has completed an in-depth review of its whistlebl …"

"… aid it appears that “it’s still business as usual at the Department of Labor in denying Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower claims.”Leahy said he was concer …"

"… rative law judge. If they lose there, they can appeal a step higher to the Labor Department’s five-member Administrative Review Board.(After filing an in …"

ANALYSIS: How our health care system cripples small business

By Wendell Potter

Small business innovation is being stifled by a health care system that send our 'best and brightest' to large corporations

Excerpts from this story referencing "Labor":

"… ealth care system is at least partly to blame. Last week the Department of Labor delivered dismal news about job growth in the U.S.  Far fewer jobs we …"

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