We’ve written before about how drug use is shrinking the American workforce. Now there’s a new wrinkle to the problem of substance abuse in the workplace: the opioid crisis. The Scale Of The Opioid Epidemic In 2016, more than 64,000 people died from overdoses of opioids. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death …
Hundreds, if not thousands, of years of culture and gender pigeon holing can be hard to shirk off. Some jobs are considered “too hard” or “inappropriate” for one gender or the other. Regardless of anti-discrimination laws and how hard we try these notions are often too deeply ingrained in us. We still have an unconscious …
For decades, the worker salary in California’s construction industry has been trending downwards. In 1973, the hourly wage of a U.S. construction worker was $31.84, while in 2016, the wage is $25.97 (adjusted for inflation). Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and unionstats.com show the drop in construction worker pay as mirroring the reduction of worker …
The National Association of Women in Construction recorded in 2014, women accounted for only 8.9% of construction workers in the United States. This relatively untapped resource has interested construction companies who are desperate to make up for the labor shortage in the United States. According to the National Association of Homebuilders, there is a growing figure of …
We’ve talked a lot about the truck driver shortage the United States is currently suffering. We’ve talked about women filling the gap, since less than 10% of drivers are women. However, there is a huge demographic that everyone likes to complain about, but some in the trucking industry are beginning to see as the ultimate …
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