As businesses reopen, workplace outbreaks and infections are diminishing, but at an agonizingly slow rate. California reported an average of about 34 new workplace outbreaks and 404 new workplace cases per day, over a five-week period in April and May. Photo: Russ Allison Loar, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
Foster Farms was fined $181,500 on May 24, 2021 by the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety (Cal/OSHA) for failing to protect workers from Covid-19 at its Livingston poultry plant and distribution center near Fresno, and for failing to report all infections. At least eight Foster Farms workers died from Covid-19.
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Fresno Bee called it “one of the steepest citations” Cal/OSHA has issued during the pandemic.
As a follow up to survey results released on March 11, 2020, April 14, 2020 and July 20, 2020, today Institute for Supply Management® (ISM®) released its fourth round of dedicated research on COVID-19 impacts on businesses and their supply chains. Insights reflect input gathered by ISM®, primarily from U.S.-based respondents between December 22, 2020 and January 11, 2021.
/PRNewswire/ Economic activity in the services sector grew in May for the 12th month in a row, say the nation s purchasing and supply executives in the.
May 2021 ISM and Markit Services Surveys Improve And Remain Well Into Expansion
The ISM improved and remained in expansion whilst the Markit PMI improved and now is at record highs.
Analyst Opinion of the ISM and Markit Services Survey
With the economy reopening, it comes as no surprise that both of these indices are well into expansion.
From Econoday:
Stronger client demand spurs sharper output expansion
Cost burdens rise at quickest pace on record
Further steep increase in employment despite hiring
May PMI™ data indicated the fastest rise in business activity since data collection for the series began in October 2009. The unprecedented expansion in output was supported by a marked increase in new business, in turn buoyed by the quickest rise in new export orders for nine months. Greater business requirements resulted in a further sharp rise in employment. That said, the pace of job creation softened as firms reported difficulties filling vacancies. Strain on capacity was