Word: on-the-job
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Govan got considerable on-the-job training with Krens during the expansion of the Williams museum and the creation of Mass moca, an enormous art and performance space nearby. Govan did some graduate work at the University of California at San Diego, but his advanced education has come more from life experience and particularly from mentor and colleague Krens. When Krens went off to run the Guggenheim Museum in 1988, Govan joined him as deputy director...
Another window into the world of drug abuse is through the workplace. Drug tests are often mandated at trucking companies and pharmacies, where on-the-job drug abuse is particularly dangerous to the public. In August, the Office of National Drug Policy released a report showing a 15.9% decline in the number of positive drug tests for cocaine among the U.S. workforce during the first six months of 2007 compared with 2006. But how accurate are these numbers? Workplace drug tests can't catch all drug abuse. The tests have a fleeting detection period - drugs must be consumed within...
...passed around by lawmakers a few weeks ago when the federal hourly minimum wage was increased to $5.85, a 70 cent uptick. But wages are just part of the problem for workers in bottom-rung jobs. Health hazards, lack of insurance and labor law violations are among the on-the-job inequities faced by these workers, according to industry experts interviewed by TIME, as well as a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. "This is incredibly important because we're talking about people who, for whatever reason, have been pushed...
...What was a tragedy has turned into an institutional crisis. The air traffic controllers on duty the day of the disaster were removed pending further inquiries, causing manpower shortages. Those that remain on the job are angry at the levels of on-the-job stress, overwork and low pay and as a result are on a work slowdown. Problems with fiberoptic cables and radio transmitters have cut communications and left passengers stranded at airports. Hundreds of flights have been cancelled and many days a third take off late. Irate travelers have threatened staff, trashed check-in counters and even stormed...
...experience in administering a complex academic organization, probably although not necessarily a university rather than a small college, either as a Dean or as a President.” “This is no place—and this is certainly not the time—for on-the-job training,” Kloppenberg said.And in the wake of Summers’ controversial comments about women in science, professors have suggested that the committee must make a more serious effort to consider female candidates.“There is sensitivity to the fact that that would...