Workplace Hazards and Violations

• Andrea Lucas, EEOC Chair, Recasts Workplace Discrimination in Trump’s Image - Andrea Lucas, the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has said she wants to undo years of what she describes as activist excess around labor law.
• ‘Landman’ Isn’t Just Oil Industry Propaganda - The show does far more to criticize the oil and gas industry than it does to bolster it.
• They, Too, Died After Beatings by Guards. No One Raised an Alarm. - Two brutal killings, less than three months apart, in New York State’s prison system raised troubling questions: Had other inmates met similar fates?
• Hundreds Sue Virginia Hospital and Executives Over Unneeded Surgeries - More than 500 women claimed that they had received unnecessary operations. Hospital leaders said they were not aware of a doctor’s misconduct.
• Hong Kong’s Migrant Domestic Workers Mourn Their Losses in Deadly Fire - At least eight workers died, and many of those who survived, after saving children and others in their care, are worried about losing their jobs and being forced to leave.