HR & Labor Management

Supply Chain Transformation With a Human Touch

July 9, 2021

Businesses need to look to their people and processes in tandem with innovative technologies to lead to real supply chain transformation.

Industry Bosses See Price Hikes as Shortages Hamper Rebound

July 5, 2021

Bloomberg

European companies are pushing up prices as supply disruptions lift costs and hamper their ability to match surging demand, according to executives.

How China Beat the U.S. to Become World's Undisputed Solar Champion

July 1, 2021

Bloomberg

China, eager to prove the supremacy of its socialist-market model, now supplies three quarters of the world’s solar panels.

U.S. Job Market Begins a ‘Weird Summer,’ With Choppy Recovery

June 29, 2021

Bloomberg

The U.S. labor market is entering one of its strangest summers ever, with a powerful economic rebound generating record demand for workers just as roadblocks distort employment and wage levels.

U.K. Faces Food Shortages as Worker Scarcity Gets Worse

June 28, 2021

Bloomberg

From abattoirs to restaurant kitchens, the U.K. food sector is facing a massive challenge this summer: there just aren’t enough workers.

'Virtually Entire' Fashion Industry Complicit in Forced Labor

Do We Really Need Slavery to Reduce Our Dependence on Fossil Fuels?

June 28, 2021

Justin Dillon, SCB Contributor

If you knew the solar panels you were about to install on your house or company headquarters were made with slave labor, would you still buy them?

VIDEO

Watch: How Can Companies Cope With Rising Labor Costs?

June 28, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Kent Mahoney, executive vice president North America with Proxima, discusses the hurdles that businesses are facing today in the form of severe labor shortages and rising wages.

Biden Balances Climate Need With Human Rights in Chinese Solar Ban

June 27, 2021

Bloomberg

The Biden administration’s narrowly focused ban on Chinese solar products is designed to confront supply chain slavery without stifling the fast-growing use of renewable energy in the U.S.

Labor Shortage, Need for Speed: Why Robots Will Multiply in the Warehouse

June 20, 2021

Rich Thompson, SCB Contributor

Warehouse automation is becoming more mainstream and affordable for smaller and middle-market e-commerce businesses.

VIDEO

Watch: How Will America Return to Work? A Legal Perspective

June 17, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

A discussion of the major legal issues that are arising as employees return to the workplace, with Lindsey Conrad Kennedy, labor and employment attorney with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC.