#emplyees

నోట్లరద్ధు అలా కలిసి వచ్చింది. ‘పేటీఎం’లో ఇప్పుడు చాలామంది కోటీశ్వరులు.

నోట్లరద్దు తర్వాత పేటీఎం అనూహ్య రీతిలో వృద్ధి చెందింది. బ్యాంకింగ్‌, షాపింగ్‌, టిక్కెట్‌​ బుకింగ్‌, ట్రావెల్‌ ఇలా అనేక రంగాలకు విస్తరించింది. పది వేల మందికి పైగా ఉద్యోగులు కలిగిన సంస్థగా ఎదిగింది. 2017లోనే అత్యంత పిన్న వయసులో బిలియనీర్‌గా గుర్తింపు పొందారు విజయ్‌ శేఖర్‌ శర్మ. స్టాక్‌మార్కెట్లలో పేటీఎం లిస్టయ్యింది. సుమారు రూ. 18,300 కోట్ల నిధులు సమీకరించడం లక్ష్యంగా ఐపీవో ఇష్యూ చేసింది. రికార్డు…

The family of Evelyn Smith Udell, the 75-year-old Boca Raton, Florida woman who was fatally beaten and burned by a worker delivering a washer and dryer to her home is suing Best Buy.  The wrongful-death lawsuit alleges that Best Buy, where she purchased the washer and dryer, failed to warn her of the third-party companies that they had neither investigated nor supervised for their deliveries; in this case, JB Hunt and XM Delivery Service.

According to the police report, on August 19, 2019, Jorge Lachazo, 21, beat Smith Udell with a mallet, then doused her with a chemical, setting her on fire.  He fled the scene in the delivery truck, while his coworker called 911.  Smith Udell later died in the hospital from her injuries.

“We have filed a lawsuit against Best Buy, JB Hunt and XM Delivery Service to hold them accountable for failing to conduct adequate background checks on the workers they’re sending to customers’ homes,” said Nick Panagakis, the family’s attorney.  “The killer’s background should have easily disqualified him as a delivery driver required to drive a delivery truck that he couldn’t legally do — and with direct and continuous access to the private homes of totally innocent victims,” Panagakis continued.

Best Buy responded in a statement:  “If the family will accept it, we would very much like the opportunity to donate to the charity they have established. As importantly, we join with the Udell family in calling for legislation regarding mandatory background checks across the retail industry and any other reasonable steps that can be taken to ensure this kind of tragedy does not occur again.”  The statement also indicated that background checks “have long been required by Best Buy and we are working with those we contract out to ensure that these checks are up-to-date and are done on a re-occurring basis.”

Important legislation regarding required background checks is expected to stem from this case in Florida.

Hire Image understands the importance of background screenings to help protect your customers, employees, and property from instances such as this devastating one.  Contact us to learn more about what else you can do today to help protect yourself and others with whom you work.

“Two new reports are being released concurrently that expose the high level of violence, abuse and harassment against staff employed in Ontario’s long-term care homes.”

“An in-depth, peer-reviewed investigative study on violence against staff in Ontario long-term care homes has just been published. The study Breaking Point: Violence Against Long-term Care Staff was conducted by Canadian researchers, Dr. James Brophy and Dr. Margaret Keith, who are associated with the University of Windsor and the University of Stirling in the UK. They held group interviews with long-term care staff in seven Ontario communities.”

“’Long-term care homes in Ontario are largely staffed by women. Their work is based on compassion and care,’ says Dr. Keith. ‘And yet, they themselves are expected to tolerate an environment in which physical, verbal, racial and sexual aggression are rampant. Adding to their burden is the implicit threat that they will be disciplined or fired if they speak publicly about these abuses.’”

“In a second-related investigation, front-line, long-term care staff were polled on their experiences with workplace violence based on job roles and gender within long‐term care facilities in Ontario. Public Polling conducted the telephone poll, commissioned by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU/CUPE) and the Ontario division of CUPE.”

“Michael Hurley, president of the OCHU/CUPE who collaborated with Dr. Brophy and Dr. Keith on the research study said ‘this study and the polling results reflect the anguish and emotional and psychological pain of the long-term care workforce in the face of an unrelenting wave of verbal, racial, sexual and physical violence. We call on the provincial government to adopt minimum staffing levels in long-term care and statutory protection for staff who report or speak up about the problem of violence. We call on the federal government to treat sexual and physical assaults against health care staff by mentally competent persons as a serious criminal offence.’”

CUPE, March 28, 2019: “Bloodied, broken and burned out: 88% of long-term care staff experience violence”