The often-quoted “When the going gets tough, the tough get going …” is attributed to Joseph Kennedy, the father of the 35th president John F. Kennedy. And while there’s no real assurance that the elder ...
After studying the federal program, Industry Week’s Ethan Karp offers tips to attain loan forgiveness in the COVID Payroll Protection Plan. The article contains more details, but here are the five hints: 1. The covered ...
Illinois manufacturers continue to be among quiet heroes in the COVID-19 crisis. TMA member Assurance Technologies, Inc. was approached early on in the COVID-19 crisis to assist General Motors’ “Project V” in an urgent setup. ...
There’s a proposal circulating the halls of Congress that is intended to protect workers as they go back to work post COVID-19. It’s an amendment that OSHA would set new rules to enforce, according to ...
This week, Industry Week hosts an editorial by Keith B. Belton in which he congratulates the 2020 manufacturing sector for investing in technology, AI, IoT and robotics. Belton says those investments have been crucial in ...
CHICAGO — Thursday, Governors JB Pritzker (IL), Gretchen Whitmer (MI), Mike DeWine (OH), Tony Evers (WI), Tim Walz (MN), Eric Holcomb (IN) and Andy Beshear (KY) announced that they will work in close coordination to reopen ...
Technology & Manufacturing Association UPDATE ON NEW IL WORKERS COMPENSATION RULES During an emergency meeting of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) on Wednesday, the Commission approved changes to the emergency rule advanced Monday, April ...
The nation’s workforce continues to be dramatically affected by the COVID-19 virus, negatively impacting the number of initial claims and insured unemployed. Stats from the US Department of Labor for April 16, 2020 confirm: In ...
D.C. – The $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program aimed at providing government-financed loans for struggling small businesses has been depleted of funds after just two weeks of operation, Business Insider is reporting Thursday. Business owners ...
CHICAGO – Illinois Governor JB Pritzker declared Monday that any essential worker that contracts COVID-19 will be protected by employer-funded Workers’ Comp program. With Illinois’ policy that employees are not required to prove causation of ...
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