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...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday that the state Department of Health laboratories identified a salad worker at the Central Kitchen as a potential salmonella carrier...
Charles J. Krause Jr., sanitary inspector for UHS, said yesterday he removed the infected employee from the line temporarily yesterday morning and has collected specimens of the salad handled by the worker to test for salmonella...
...Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1976 has closed many of the gaps by formalizing requirements for pensions and guaranteeing a worker the nonforfeitable right to a pension after 10 years of continuous service (vesting rights). Harvard's pension plan, however, exemplifies the many inadequacies in the system that persist, especially for non-hourly unionized workers...
THOUGH Harvard allows hourly workers to "vest" before the federal minimum of 10 years, the University is by no means generous with its pension system. The University's plan is based on credited service and a final average base wage rate taking into account the worker's social security benefits. A worker who retires after 25 years of continuous service will receive 60 per cent of his "high-five pay" (the highest average of the worker's base wage rate during five consecutive years in the final ten years of service) minus 80 per cent of his social security income...
Harvard is one of those small union situations. And the average Harvard worker at the end of a quarter century service must struggle to survive. He or she will be expected to live on a pension of $208 a month plus $265 in social security--a total of $473 a month. The retired Harvard worker's yearly income will be less than $6000, or slightly above the national poverty level. Integration has become the cost-cutting tool that deprives the unprotected worker of the right to a secure retirement...