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Peter Romeo

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Workforce

How to protect workers during the current heat wave

Citing "life-threatening" temperatures, federal safety authorities are advising employers to combine common sense with precautions tailored to their workplace.

Operations

Menu prices kept soaring in May

The Consumer Price Index for meals prepared outside the home topped the year-ago level by 7.4%, the highest jump in 41 years.

Workforce

U.K. employers try a fresh solution to the labor shortage

As of this month, about six dozen companies are transitioning to a four-day work week, without any change in hours per day or pay.

Operations

Pietro Satriano is no longer CEO of US Foods

Under pressure from a shareholder, the distribution giant said it will start hunting for Satriano's replacement.

Operations

Workplace regulators consider new safeguards against excessive heat

With forecasts calling for a hotter-than-normal summer, many state and federal agencies are looking for better ways of protecting kitchen workers and other employees.

Workforce

New pay disclosure rules set to begin for NYC employers

Operators are preparing to air pay ranges in their job ads, starting May 15.

Operations

U.S. Supreme Court to hear case with implications for pork prices

The nation's top court will decide if California can ban the purchase of meat from animals raised in close confines.

Workforce

Recent survey shows a majority of job quitters regret their exit

Nearly 3 in 4 say their next job didn't live up to expectations, and close to half indicate they'll try to get their old jobs back.

Workforce

Michigan tries a method of easing more parents back into the labor pool

The state is broadening a program that aims to make child care accessible by dividing the cost between employees, employers and the state.

Operations

Sysco doesn't foresee a swift end to Omicron's impact

The distributor told investors that it also doesn't have a read on when food inflation will fall back into single digits.

Workforce

Consumers now care more about how well employees are treated, study shows

Patrons will readily shift their loyalties on the basis of how staffs are handled, particularly when it comes to COVID safety, per the findings.

Workforce

OSHA officially shelves Biden administration's employee vaccine mandate

The emergency requirement was technically reduced to a proposed rule, meaning it still could be adopted, but only through the usual prolonged process.

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