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Hampton schools planning to open employee health clinic
HAMPTON — Hampton school officials are planning to open an employee health clinic in January 2014. They hope the clinic will reduce costs by giving the division more control over health spending and helping employees better monitor and treat...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health and Safety at School, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Employees, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Liar liar, officepants on fire
That's a good point! (No it isn't.) I'd be happy to join the team! (I'd rather be eaten by wart hogs.) Your cake is delicious! (Thanks for the food poisoning, Julia Child.) These are but a few examples of the lies we tell at work. Most aren't...
Tags: Employees, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Career and Workplace, Julia Child, Rex Huppke
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Some L.A. County bus drivers say pesticides are making them ill
Los Angeles County bus drivers say they are regularly becoming ill — sometimes while behind the wheel — from pesticides sprayed inside their vehicles by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. At least 14 Metro drivers are pursuing...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security, Flu, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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Investigators seek cause of chemical blasts in Louisiana
State and federal investigators in Louisiana are working to uncover what caused fatal blasts at two different chemical plants in the span of two days. The second explosion took place Friday night at the CF Industries plant in Donaldsonville, a small...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Disasters and Accidents, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Explosions
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S.F. grudgingly backs Kaiser rate hike for public workers
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials who oversee the healthcare plans that cover San Francisco public employees this week excoriated Kaiser executives for failing to adequately explain a proposed rate increase but ultimately voted to back it. The city's...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government, Healthcare Policies, Politics
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Detroit emergency manager lays out painful path on city finances
Detroit Free PressDETROIT Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr laid out Friday an extraordinary, complex and painful path back to solvency for the City of Detroit in a proposed plan to creditors that promises at the same time a way out of the financial mess that has...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Civil and Public Service, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Labor Legislation
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2nd victim dies from Louisiana chemical plant explosion
HOUSTON--A second worker injured in an explosion and fire at a central Louisiana petrochemical plant has died and a few others remained hospitalized Friday. Scott Thrower, 47, of St. Amant, La., suffered burns Thursday morning in the explosion at the...
Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution, Williams Companies Incorporated, Labor Legislation, Emergency Incidents
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S.F. officials blast Kaiser for hiking rates for public workers
SAN FRANCISCO — Officials who oversee the healthcare plans of San Francisco public employees and their families excoriated Kaiser executives Thursday for failing to adequately explain a proposed rate increase, but ultimately voted to back it as...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Government, Healthcare Policies, Politics
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Staying healthy on Father's Day with help from Obamacare
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceFather's Day is a reminder for all of us dads to stay healthy. As father to three beautiful children two boys (ages 6 and 3) and a four-week-old baby girl I intend to celebrate many Father's Days to come with my wife and kids. Fortunately, I don't have...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Employees, Small Businesses, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Business
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Farm safety and employee management
It was a bit of a coincidence that one day when I was reflecting on the HOSTA (Hazardous Occupation and Safety Training in Agriculture, or Tractor Safety School) that was recently held in Winner, I read an interesting entry in the journal type book by...Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace, Science and Technology
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Federal workers get health and fitness programs
For three hours each work week, Bert Rice walks laps around Burba Lake at Fort Meade — part of a mission by the federal government to build a healthier workforce. Rice, 76, a retired Army colonel and former Anne Arundel County councilman working as...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Fort Meade (military base), Social Security, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense
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Blast at Louisiana petrochemical plant kills 1, injures 77
HOUSTON — At least one person was killed and 77 injured Thursday in an explosion and fire at a petrochemical plant in the Louisiana town of Geismar, part of a heavily industrial region known as “Cancer Alley.” “This has been a...
Tags: Government, Politics, Disasters and Accidents, Bobby Jindal, Environmental Issues
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