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Former cafeteria manager files lawsuit

 By FSD Staff on Oct. 23, 2015

The lawsuit alleges that Baldwin-Whitehall School District wrongfully terminated the former manager for throwing away food.

Operations

UC launches first phase of new $15 minimum-wage policy

 By Bianca N. Herron on Oct. 05, 2015

The minimum wage for 3,200 workers in the UC system rose to $13 an hour and will increase an additional dollar to $14 in 2016 and to $15 in 2017.

Operations

District considers cutting cafeteria-worker hours

Sep. 17, 2015

Cotati-Rohnert Park School District officials want to lay off the equivalent of 12-and-a-half full-time cafeteria workers and hire nine of them back at reduced hours with no benefits, a move they say will save $150,000 a year.

Operations

Cafeteria workers remain district employees despite Chartwells contract

Aug. 21, 2015

Two dozen full- and part-time kitchen and cafeteria workers throughout the Somerset and Somerset Berkley Regional school districts will remain district employees rather than have their positions outsourced to new foodservice provider Chartwells.

Operations

How new overtime regulations will impact hospital foodservice workers

Aug. 18, 2015

Hospital cafeteria managers may currently be considered exempt executives, but if they earn less than $50,000, they will now be eligible for overtime pay.

People

Changing the boys’ club

By Katie Fanuko on Aug. 15, 2015

Deborah Harris and Patti Giuffre, both sociology professors at Texas State University, in San Marcos, Texas, confronted the challenges female chefs face.

Operations

The minimum-wage scramble

By Dina Berta on Aug. 15, 2015

Foodservice directors at universities, where students can account for nearly half of the employees, are taking a look at ways to cover labor costs.

Workforce

Faster hiring means longer retention, Ill. university finds

By Bianca N. Herron on Aug. 04, 2015

To streamline recruitment of foodservice employees, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hosts a summer job fair where candidates are interviewed and hired on the spot.

Operations

Cafeteria workers join union amid pay concerns

Jul. 27, 2015

Foodservice staff at Lanesborough Elementary School have joined the Lanesborough Education Association collective-bargaining unit, allowing the union to negotiate on their behalf.

Workforce

HR Undercover: transgender in the workplace

By Dana Moran on Jul. 13, 2015

When an organization hires a transgender worker, how should the employer accomodate them? HR undercover says the guiding principle is self-determination.

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