And more than a third reported experiencing health and safety problems in the workplace - having to travel home alone late at night because employers did not provide transport was the most common complaint.
Finally, what of the argument that the new global economy makes it impossible for governments to mandate social protection, such as minimum-wage laws, rules on working hours, health-and-safety standards in the workplace, and so forth.
The CalChamber Board of Directors voted to oppose the measure because it would drive up costs and significantly undermine the ability of employers to protect the safety of all employees in the workplace.
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To be sure, most global retailers have standards for workplace safety in the factories that make their clothes.
Employers are being urged to rethink workplace safety in the new year after statistics showed 18 workers in Wales lost their lives last year.
The bad news: Workplace safety experts say the decline in fatalities was due in part to lower employment nationwide, particularly in the construction and manufacturing industries. (Construction-related deaths, still the highest among any profession on an absolute basis, dropped to 1, 178 from 1, 239.) Improved safety standards have helped stanch the bleeding, too, they say.
In the report, the company discusses its workplace safety record, environmental performance and social contributions in detail.
Miners continued their pressure, leading to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, marshalling public force to protect their health in the private workplace.
Now, you could, if you wished to, say that rising wages, better working conditions and greater workplace safety are all evidence of an increase in the ethics, or the ethical behaviour, of the employers.
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Only this week, a major debate began on stress in the workplace, an issue which has divided health and safety experts.
In 2010 and 2011, complaints about alleged Hyatt worker-safety violations poured into the offices of the chief workplace regulator, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
"The health and safety of AAM's employees will remain of paramount importance in this difficult time with additional workplace support being given to employees to help them seek alternative employment, " he said.
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The Health and Safety Executive, which is conducting a huge survey into workplace stress to be published in early 2000, says preliminary results show one in five workers say they are "very" or "extremely" stressed at work.
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