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Employers, notes Alabama labor-and-employment attorney Jennifer Swain of the firm Baker Donelson, can set conditions of employment. So does that mean any company could impose an H1N1-vaccine requirement as part of its business-continuity plan? Most likely yes, but Swain is betting that few non-health-care companies would be willing to endure the inevitable protests against such a policy. "In health care, it strengthens an employer's argument that an employee might cause a direct threat by not being vaccinated," she says. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...Duane Zuckschwerdt, UAW Region 1C director and a member of the union's top executive board, readily acknowledges that Flint is often held up as a symbol of crippling labor-management strife, but he sees the Volt investment as a significant milestone for the city. "I know you go just 50 miles west of here and they think the town is dead," Zuckschwerdt says. "But it's not. GM knows they have a very talented workforce here," he says...
...same time, Statistics Canada, a government agency, reports that unemployment fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 8.4% in September, the first monthly decline since the beginning of the labor market slump a year ago. According to the report, 31,000 net new jobs were created last month...
...Calderón moved in during a leadership crisis in the union, his government claiming that the election of firebrand labor boss Martin Esparza had been fraudulent. But the focus of the decree closing down the utility company makes little mention of the union, focusing instead on the losses incurred by the company. Between 2003 and 2008, Light and Power had spent about $32 billion - mainly on salaries and pensions - and only collected half that amount in revenues. The nation could not afford such inefficiency amid an economic crisis, Calderón said...
...Mexico." Many electricity customers are also looking forward to changes after years of complaining of high bills and poor service. But Esparza has called on fellow unions to take to the streets to fight the measure, and the outcome of the battle of wills between the government and organized labor could yet define the President's tenure...