OSHA finds unsafe conditions at Crane base
The Crane Army Ammunition Activity about 70 miles southwest of Indianapolis learned last month the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration would issue 36 notices for unsafe working conditions.
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How Obamacare is affecting employers
Indiana companies are planning different methods to adapt to the health care landscape next year.
Health law fuels modest rise in costs
It’s long been known that Obamacare would make health benefits more expensive for most employers. Now, it’s finally becoming clearer by how much: about 9 percent, on average, according to a series of actuarial studies.
Indy Chamber to oppose gay-marriage amendment
The Chamber noted that two of Indiana's largest employers — Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and Columbus-based engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. — oppose the amendment for recruitment reasons.
Poll: Half of older workers delay retirement plans
Some 82 percent of working Americans over 50 say it is at least somewhat likely they will work for pay in retirement, according to a poll released Monday.
WorkOne offices prepare for in-person meetings
Indiana's WorkOne centers are bracing for an increase in traffic when they begin holding in-person meetings with people who've been receiving unemployment benefits for at least four weeks.
GE workers protest Bloomington factory job cuts
Workers say the company isn’t following through on an investment announced three years ago.
Indiana sees two-decade low in workplace deaths
Almost half of Indiana's 2012 worker deaths were transportation-related. Twenty deaths happened at construction sites, while there were 10 manufacturing deaths.
String of EEOC complaints dogs WTHR
A case brought early this year by the executive assistant to WTHR-TV Channel 13’s former president was the seventh since 2005 by a woman alleging sex discrimination at the NBC affiliate
Carmel firm settles discrimination lawsuit for $90K
A Carmel-based power-grid operator has agreed to pay $90,500 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit involving an employee who allegedly suffered from postpartum depression.
Firms unravel implications of same-sex court ruling
Judges have spoken and people have celebrated, but human resources departments remain confounded on what will change for their companies with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act.
Benefits firm to continue growth spurt, add 25 jobs
Nyhart Actuary & Employee Benefits plans to invest $840,000 to lease and equip an expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters, and already has started hiring.
High court invalidates law denying gay-marriage benefits
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that legally married same-sex couples should get the same federal benefits as heterosexual couples.
Sales of boomer-owned businesses deemed close at hand
Several factors have aligned to spark the long-expected trend.
Explanations vary for dearth of women in top rungs of business
Of 112 public and large private-company CEOs, only four are women, although women make up 47 percent of Indiana's work force. The four Indiana companies with a woman as CEO at the end of 2012—Bioanalytical Systems, Fortune Industries, Defender Direct and HP Products Corp.—were among a tiny group nationwide with women at the helm.
Feds probing Indiana’s workplace safety agency
The federal government’s workplace safety agency is investigating its Indiana counterpart—a department that documents indicate is trying to boost its inspections without hiring new staffers.
WTHR chief hit with discrimination lawsuit
The former executive assistant to WTHR-TV Channel 13 President John Cardenas has filed an age- and sexual-discrimination lawsuit against the station and parent Dispatch Broadcasting Group.
PLUSKOTA: Executives help accelerate ‘bring your own device’ trend
Convenience overrides security, network overload concerns.
WILSON: Tech firms ramp up already-pitched battle for employees
In the midst of headlines reminding us of the high unemployment that has plagued this country for several years, we have a war for talent in the technology field, with companies in Indiana and elsewhere vying to hire an increasingly smaller pool of qualified applicants.
Report: IOSHA loses its teeth as workplace safety watchdog
The state agency inspects fewer than a third of the businesses it did in the 1980s, issues fines for serious violations that average less than half the national rate and issued violations at a lower rate than the national average the past decade, according to a newspaper report.