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AP file photo Hiring discrimination is pervasive within temporary employment agencies that serve warehouses and factories, Chicago-area workers’ rights organizations said Tuesday in releasing a study documenting practices that allegedly hurt Black or Latino applicants. The report said that in two-thirds of tests conducted in 2019, temp agencies hired or assisted applicants of one race and declined help for those of another race at roughly the same time. The tests used Black and Latino applicants paired for similar skills and backgrounds. The findings show the importance of suing employers t...

Their report found widespread favoritism to applicants based in race; Atty. Gen. Kwame Raoul promised tough enforcement of labor laws.

New Belarus' State Control Committee chairman appointed MINSK, 26 January (BelTA) – Vasily Gerasimov has been appointed Chairman of the State Control Committee of Belarus. The corresponding personnel decision was made by Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 26 January, BelTA has learned. Since September 2020 Vasily Gerasimov has been acting chairman of the committee. Before that he was First Deputy Chairman of the State Control Committee. Vasily Gerasimov was born in 1975 in Minsk. He graduated from the Belarusian State University in 1997 and the Academy of Public Administration under ...

The Michigan minimum wage is not going up today. The hourly minimum wage was supposed to increase from $9.65 to $9.87 January 1st. But, state law does not allow the scheduled increases when the previous year’s unemployment rate is above 8.5%. Because of a spike in unemployment in the spring and early summer, the average unemployment rate in Michigan for the year is higher than that. Unless the legislature acts, the minimum wage won’t increase until 2022 and only if the unemployment rate in Michigan remains close to levels seen in the last quarter of 2020 which hovered between 6 and 7%.

Lukashenko presents Order of Labor Glory to BNTU, state awards to university workers MINSK, 10 December (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko presented the Order of Labor Glory to the Belarusian National Technical University (BNTU) and state awards to the university workers, BelTA has learned. “Today I would like to present state awards to those who made (figuratively speaking) this university, who maintain its image at the highest level, to those who have made our university part of the elite of world universities. Let me also present today the Order of Labor Glory, the first ...