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Avionté

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Founded in 2005, Avionté has grown to serve over 25,000 users across North America, offering an integrated platform that seamlessly combines front and back-office functions. Avionté is a leading provider of staffing and recruiting software, dedicated to enhancing the operational efficiency and effectiveness of staffing firms.

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Black Workers Files Lawsuit against General Mills for Racism at Georgia Plant

HR Digest

A lawsuit has been filed against General Mills, the manufacturer of Cheerios and other well-known cereals. Image Credit: generalmills) In the federal lawsuit filed on June 2, the employees accuse the managers at the General Mills Covington plant with favoring White employees for promotions over Black workers.

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Are weekend workers adequately served by workers’ compensation and Occupational Health & Safety agencies?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

As I drove home I notices the neighbour’s new garage door being installed by another crew of young workers… Weekend workers seemed to be everywhere. In the course of my weekend, I saw shopkeepers, clerks, maintenance workers, delivery drivers, landscapers, arborists, installers and many other workers.

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NJ Supreme Court to Review Workplace Insurance Exclusion

Workers' Compensation

The NJ Supreme Court will review whether a workers’ compensation insurance company has a duty to defend an employer against personal injury claims brought by the employer’s employee under an employer's liability insurance policy. The court distinguished the case from prior cases, New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance v. See, Millison v.

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Rendering Aid to an Injured Worker: Potential Liability under the Dual Capacity/Dual Persona Theory

The Workcomp Writer

It is axiomatic that in every American jurisdiction, once a workers’ compensation act has become applicable—either through compulsion or election—it affords the exclusive remedy for the injury by the employee or the employee’s dependents against the employer [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 100.01, et seq. ].

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Bigfoot, Unicorns, and Predictability

Florida Workers' Comp

Back in the day, my legal representation included one of the largest manufacturers of ground coffee in the world. In February 2005, responding to that “appearance of habit,“ I gave up coffee. Clearly, neither approach is inherently wrong. As clearly, neither is “automatic" nor "standing." Coffee was a "go-to,“ A regularity, a habit.

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NJ Sues Several Companies for Environmental Pollution

Workers' Compensation

The seventh lawsuit filed today centers on a blueberry farm and blueberry processing operation in Hammonton that employs migrant farm workers who live on site. manufactured fine round metal wire and tubing on the site. From approximately 1956 through 2003, the complaint notes, S. Burger Wire and Tubing, Inc.