October 20, 2022 - Smlr_net

20 Oct 2022


      *SMLR-Net: Selected news on labor and employment relations & human resource
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*October 20, 2022*
*Title:*                    They Inhaled Asbestos for Decades on the Job.
Now, Workers Break Their Silence
*Source:*               NPR / ProPublica
*Author:*               Kathleen McGrory and Neil Bedi
*Date:*                   October 20, 2022
*Summary:*          Now, the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised
to finally outlaw asbestos in a test case with huge implications. If the
agency fails to ban a substance so widely established as harmful,
scientists and public health experts argue, it would raise serious doubts
about the EPA's ability to protect the public from any toxic chemicals.
*Link:*                    https://n.pr/3saFWhT
*Title:*                    Burned Out on Your Personal Brand
*Source:*               The New York Times
*Author:*               Emma Goldberg
*Date:*                   October 20, 2022
*Summary:*          Younger workers embraced the idea of a personal brand
as a way to get ahead, and carve out some power and security in their
careers. But posting through it has its drawbacks.
*Link:*                    https://nyti.ms/3VIXa3l
*Title:*                   America’s Disappearing Income Inequality
*Source:*               Cato Institute
*Author: *              Scott Lincicome and Ilana Blumsack
*Date:*                   October 19, 2022
*Summary:*          A new study from Cato adjunct scholar John Early
explores how the Census Bureau overstates U.S. inequality by excluding
taxes and welfare payments from the agency’s income estimates. Early shows
that, when accounting for the taxes Americans (mostly middle‐ and
higher‐income) pay out of their own income and the welfare payments
Americans (mostly lower‐income) receive, 2017 income inequality between the
top and bottom households shrinks from almost 17‐to‑1 to just 4‑to‑1.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3MN6CPt
*Title:*                    Hyundai to ‘Sever Relations’ With Alabama
Suppliers Accused of Child Labor ‘As Soon As Possible’
*Source:*               AL.com
*Author:*               Howard Koplowitz
*Date:*                   October 19, 2022
*Summary:*          Hyundai intends to “sever relations” with SL Alabama
and SMART Alabama “as soon as possible,” Global Chief Operating Officer
Jose Munoz said Wednesday to Reuters, the wire service whose investigation
unearthed the allegations involving children as young as 12 working for the
suppliers.
*Link:*                    https://bit.ly/3Deu05h
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