Word: on-the-job
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Some of these employees suggest that theUniversity create an investigative panel offaculty, administrators and police officials toprobe the charges. Such panels, which some lawenforcement agencies use to resolve delicateissues like on-the-job harassment, may be the bestapproach to the problem, according to theveterans...
...slippery. Some rooms are cold, others hot and malodorous enough to bring a visitor close to vomiting. Employees are sometimes splashed with feces, blood, guts or chicken fat. Even more odious is the industry's rising injury rate. Labor Department statistics show that 27% of poultry workers suffer on-the-job injuries and illnesses each year, making fowl processing one of the nation's most hazardous jobs. In terms of repetitive-motion disorders, poultry work is exceeded only by meat packing. In a study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1 in 3 chicken workers was found...
...tension line in Sweden from 1960 to '85. Although the investigators could find no evidence of an increased cancer threat for adults, they did detect a higher risk of leukemia in children. The second study, led by Birgitta Floderus of Sweden's National Institute of Occupational Health, linked on-the-job exposure to electromagnetic fields and leukemia in workingmen...
...said yesterday that any investigation of the harassment charges must be thorough and meticulous. He said that while he did not object to the police's internal investigation, some "objective observer" should inquire into sensitive matters such as on-the-job harassment...
...every 4 cancer survivors has faced some form of job difficulty, ranging from reduced wages or benefits to summary dismissal. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which is being phased in this year, will give cancer victims explicit federal protection against on-the-job discrimination. That part of the law was largely the result of spirited lobbying by a growing network of grassroots survivor organizations. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, an umbrella organization based in Albuquerque, N. Mex., now boasts the membership of 400 different groups across...