TAR HEEL, N.C. (WTVD) -- A week after Smithfield Foods closed its South Dakota pork processing plant--one of the largest in the country, one worker at the company's North Carolina facility said she is concerned for her health and safety on the job.A representative with the packing plant said out of respect for its employees,…
(WXYZ) — Beaumont employees have been blowing the whistle on everything from hazard pay to patient care, and now some are upset about boxes of personal protective equipment (PPE) found in a local warehouse.They’ve also been demanding answers about the future of Beaumont Wayne Hospital, which has been emptied of patients.Employees from Beaumont Wayne Hospital…
SUMMER: THE GROCER HAD INITIALLY ASKED ITS ASSOCIATES NOT TO WEAR THEM, BUT AS WESH 2’S AMANDA DUKES REPORTS, THE COMPANY HAS NOW CHANGED ITS MIND AMANDA: PUBLIX STORE POLICY DID NOT ALLOW EMPLOYEES WHO DON’T NORMALLY WEAR GLOVES OR MASKS TO WEAR THEM AS PROTECTION FROM THE CORONAVIRUS. BUT IN AN EMAIL TO WESH…
Employees at 2 Orlando-area Publix stores test positive for COVID-19 Two employees at two different Publix stores in the Orlando-area have tested positive for coronavirus, the company says. One of the employees works at the store at 2873 S. Orange Ave., which is in Orlando, south of downtown, and the other employee works at the…
New Jersey enacted a similar policy earlier this month. Other states such as New York and California have done the same.LIVE UPDATES: Coronavirus in Princeton, NJPennsylvania has put additional procedures into place with today's order as well, Including new protocols for employers after a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the workplace. The Inquirer.com has more…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…