Industry goliaths in Silicon Valley have thrown lavish perks at employees for years. As employment in Indianapolis tech firms has skyrocketed in recent years, a lot more companies are looking for workers, heating up competition.
Technology and work habits are prompting firms to squish space allotted to workers.
Companies in many cases don’t have to pay workers for the time they spend putting on and taking off safety gear, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, siding with U.S. Steel Corp. in a lawsuit by 800 workers.
Extreme winter weather tested business contingency plans this week, and power outages were a common setback for people trying to work from home.
Dennis Bassett, who retires at the end of this month, will tell you things might not have gone well for JPMorgan Chase & Co. if it had imported a New Yorker to run its Indiana operations when it bought Chicago-based Bank One in 2004.
IU Health, the state’s fourth-largest employer, said it was opposing a proposed amendment against same-sex marriage for health-related reasons.
The Indianapolis City-County Council voted 22-6 on Monday night to pass a resolution urging the Indiana General Assembly to vote against the proposed same-sex marriage amendment.
Indianapolis-based media giant Emmis Communications Corp. has joined Freedom Indiana, a group opposed to a proposed amendment banning same-sex marriage. Meanwhile, a Northern Indiana tea party group took a different stance.
DePauw University and Wabash College have joined Freedom Indiana, a newly formed organization opposed to Indiana’s proposed same-sex marriage amendment.
The Crane Army Ammunition Activity about 70 miles southwest of Indianapolis learned last month the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration would issue 36 notices for unsafe working conditions.
Indiana companies are planning different methods to adapt to the health care landscape next year.
It’s long been known that Obamacare would make health benefits more expensive for most employers. Now, it’s finally becoming clearer by how much: about 9 percent, on average, according to a series of actuarial studies.
The Chamber noted that two of Indiana's largest employers — Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. and Columbus-based engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. — oppose the amendment for recruitment reasons.
Some 82 percent of working Americans over 50 say it is at least somewhat likely they will work for pay in retirement, according to a poll released Monday.
Indiana's WorkOne centers are bracing for an increase in traffic when they begin holding in-person meetings with people who've been receiving unemployment benefits for at least four weeks.
Workers say the company isn’t following through on an investment announced three years ago.
Almost half of Indiana's 2012 worker deaths were transportation-related. Twenty deaths happened at construction sites, while there were 10 manufacturing deaths.
A case brought early this year by the executive assistant to WTHR-TV Channel 13’s former president was the seventh since 2005 by a woman alleging sex discrimination at the NBC affiliate
A Carmel-based power-grid operator has agreed to pay $90,500 to settle a disability discrimination lawsuit involving an employee who allegedly suffered from postpartum depression.
Judges have spoken and people have celebrated, but human resources departments remain confounded on what will change for their companies with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act.
