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Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
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A majority of consumers polled support the idea of buying from businesses that employ workers with nonviolent criminal records, according to research from the Society for Human Resource Management and the Charles Koch Institute. The survey revealed that…
Leaders from the logistics industry, major ports, blockchain suppliers and importers/exporters have teamed up with the World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation and more than 20 governments to accelerate blockchain…
The availability rate for U.S. industrial real estate declined by less than half of a basis point (bp) – essentially a flat result – in the first quarter as demand for warehouses roughly matched the delivery of newly constructed supply, according to a new…
The latest change in the EEO-1 Form announced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is that the May 31 deadline remains for employers to file basic data and Sept. 30 for filing more complex data covering the year 2018 (AA, 4-15-19, P. 2). However,…
Following years of contradictory decisions at the appeals court level, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to settle the question of whether Gay and transgender employment rights are protected by federal civil rights law. A series of cases involving Gay employment…
A myriad of technological challenges have raised roadblocks to public acceptance of autonomous vehicles, but who could have guessed that one of them would turn out to be the perceived racism of pedestrian detection systems? Researchers Benjamin Wilson, Judy…
For the first time in United States history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle accident, the National Safety Council reports. In fact, workplace deaths involving drugs or alcohol rose by at least 25%…
OSHA issued a Request For Information to help the agency consider opening a rulemaking for updating the powered industrial trucks standards for the general, maritime and construction industries. The standards went into effect in 1971, and were based on…
One in seven employees don’t feel safe, and neither they nor human resources know how to respond to a violent incident, a Society for Human Resource Management survey finds. Nearly half of HR professionals said their organizations had at one point…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council, rose 0.1% in March on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis. This repreesents the first gain in five months, but as the ACC points out, on a…
Thanks to a recent court decision, employers will need to file their EEO-1 Form in two parts this year, one at the end of May and the other at the end of September. The first part contains what is termed Component 1 data (workforce demographics by job…
Spurred to action by high-profile recalls of food imports, the Food and Drug Administration announced a strategy for updating its import food safety enforcement activities. The United States imports about 15% of our overall food supply from more than 200…
Blog
Industry reporting, member spotlights, and operational guidance from ACWI. Every article from our archive is here — 1,254 posts going back to 2014.
Showing 992 posts in Warehouse and Logistics Newsletter.
A majority of consumers polled support the idea of buying from businesses that employ workers with nonviolent criminal records, according to research from the Society for Human Resource Management and the Charles Koch Institute. The survey revealed that…
Leaders from the logistics industry, major ports, blockchain suppliers and importers/exporters have teamed up with the World Economic Forum, the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation and more than 20 governments to accelerate blockchain…
The availability rate for U.S. industrial real estate declined by less than half of a basis point (bp) – essentially a flat result – in the first quarter as demand for warehouses roughly matched the delivery of newly constructed supply, according to a new…
The latest change in the EEO-1 Form announced by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is that the May 31 deadline remains for employers to file basic data and Sept. 30 for filing more complex data covering the year 2018 (AA, 4-15-19, P. 2). However,…
Following years of contradictory decisions at the appeals court level, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to settle the question of whether Gay and transgender employment rights are protected by federal civil rights law. A series of cases involving Gay employment…
A myriad of technological challenges have raised roadblocks to public acceptance of autonomous vehicles, but who could have guessed that one of them would turn out to be the perceived racism of pedestrian detection systems? Researchers Benjamin Wilson, Judy…
For the first time in United States history, a person is more likely to die from an accidental opioid overdose than from a motor vehicle accident, the National Safety Council reports. In fact, workplace deaths involving drugs or alcohol rose by at least 25%…
OSHA issued a Request For Information to help the agency consider opening a rulemaking for updating the powered industrial trucks standards for the general, maritime and construction industries. The standards went into effect in 1971, and were based on…
One in seven employees don’t feel safe, and neither they nor human resources know how to respond to a violent incident, a Society for Human Resource Management survey finds. Nearly half of HR professionals said their organizations had at one point…
The Chemical Activity Barometer, a leading economic indicator created by the American Chemistry Council, rose 0.1% in March on a three-month moving average (3MMA) basis. This repreesents the first gain in five months, but as the ACC points out, on a…
Thanks to a recent court decision, employers will need to file their EEO-1 Form in two parts this year, one at the end of May and the other at the end of September. The first part contains what is termed Component 1 data (workforce demographics by job…
Spurred to action by high-profile recalls of food imports, the Food and Drug Administration announced a strategy for updating its import food safety enforcement activities. The United States imports about 15% of our overall food supply from more than 200…