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Jobless benefits OK for medical marijuana users
MASON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan judge has ruled that medical marijuana users who follow the state's medical marijuana law may collect unemployment benefits. The Lansing State Journal reports (http://on.lsj.com/WM6U8a ) Ingham County Circuit Judge...
Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Lupus, Judges
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Sequester budget cuts take its toll locally
WSBT-TVSOUTH BEND – A $30 million dollar construction project in Indiana is delayed because of the sequester budget cuts. $21 million of that $30 million was supposed to be used to fix up South Bend's National Guard Armory on Kemble Avenue. Now there's...Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Government Debt, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Air Transportation Industry
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Donnelly-backed bill seeks to address 'skills gap'
SOUTH BEND – Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., joined Sens. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., Tuesday in introducing bipartisan legislation aimed at closing the “skills gap” in the U.S. The America Works Act would modify existing...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Joe Donnelly, Employment
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UPDATE: Former Goshen officer kills ex, then himself
WSBT-TVA Goshen woman is dead. Police say her ex-boyfriend, a former Goshen cop, shot and killed her Monday morning and then himself. The bodies of 51-year-old John Eric Haitsma and 48-year-old Millicent Morros were found just before 8 a.m. in a parking lot in...Tags: Labor Legislation, Suicide
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Youth walks miles for interview, story goes viral
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis teenager who set out to walk 10 miles in an ice storm for a job interview has ended up with a story that's gone viral and a foundation in his name. Eighteen-year-old Jhaqueil Reagan headed out on foot into an...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Employment
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Norfolk Southern ordered to pay fired worker $438K
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — A federal agency has ordered Norfolk Southern Railway Co. to rehire an Indiana employee fired in 2010 and pay him nearly $438,000 in damages. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said the Fort Wayne-based crane...Tags: Norfolk Southern Corporation, Health and Safety at Work, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Employees
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Federal cuts threaten Indiana jobless benefits
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana residents will lose some unemployment benefits immediately if automatic federal spending cuts take effect this week, state officials said. The state Department of Workforce Development said it would temporarily cut...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Head Start, Labor Legislation, U.S. Congress, Employment
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REPORT: IOSHA inspections, fines are down
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — The state agency charged with keeping Indiana workplaces safe inspects fewer than a third of the businesses it did in the 1980s, issues fines for serious violations that average less than half the national rate and issued...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Labor Legislation, Business, AFL-CIO, Injuries and Wounds
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Lawmakers pessimistic about budget deal
South Bend TribuneThough not set to take effect until Friday, the automatic cuts to defense and domestic spending known as the sequester, negotiated back in 2011 as part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, already are having an effect on the economy and national security,...Tags: Joe Donnelly, U.S. Congress, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Crime, Law and Justice, Joe Donnelly
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Rare form of macular degeneration dims man's sight but not his work ethic
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Driving to his company's Granger office one day, Niel Makielski noticed the telephone poles along the road seemed to be warping as he passed them. The chief of his company's small maintenance department and a "fix-it" guy all his life,...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Veterans Affairs
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UPDATE: Cequent workers accept plant closure agreement
GOSHEN -- It's hard to vote against a sure thing. United Steelworkers Local 9550, which represents about 350 members at Cequent Performance Products, voted Friday evening to accept the closure agreement offered by the company. The vote was held at...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, United Steelworkers, Elections, Arbitration, Economy, Business and Finance
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Mich. senator launches 'repeal right to work' site
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan Democratic lawmaker is taking steps aimed at repealing the contentious right-to-work law. Sen. Hoon-Yung Hopgood of Taylor launched a website this week in an effort to drive a take-down of the law signed in...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Judges, Lawyers
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