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Pichai probe | Google employees grill CEO on cost-cutting, layoffs, & "decline in morale" in all-hands meeting
Google's CEO and CFO faced a barrage of questions from employees during a company meeting last week,...
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As young as 13 | Janitorial company fined $649,000 after hiring child labor to clean slaughterhouses
Fayette Janitorial Service has been fined $649,000 by the Department of Labor (DOL) after hiring child...
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‘Devastated’ | Investment banking employee at Bank of America dies
Bank of America says it will do whatever it can to support the family and its team.
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EV 101 | Ford launches AI-driven 'University' to fix dealership employee knowledge gaps
Ford University is a digital, video-based service available to employees 24 hours a day, seven days a...
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Andy Jassy | Amazon CEO under fire for breaking federal labor law in anti-union comments
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) judge has found Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in violation of federal...
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'It shouldn't be easy' | Nvidia boss accepts he's 'hard to work for' but says that's deliberate
In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang embraced his reputation as a 'demanding...
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'Berated black employees' | Ye & Donda Academy hit with (yet another) ex-employee discrimination & hostile work environment lawsuit
In the suit, filed in Los Angeles on Friday, Benjamin Deshon Provo, a former security guard at the Donda...
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Tesla trouble | EV giant lays off employee who slept in car to be more productive
Tesla, the Texas-based electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer helmed by controversial businessman Elon Musk,...
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25% pay raise | Biden hails 'power of collective bargaining' as last-minute UAW & Daimler Truck deal averts strike
United Auto Workers (UAW) and Daimler Truck struck a tentative deal at the eleventh hour on Friday, including...
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“Workplaces are getting worse” | Walmart, Waffle House, & Uber among those blasted for “unsafe and reckless” work practices in 'Dirty Dozen' report
The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) released its 2024 “Dirty Dozen”...
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'Casting aside worker safety' | SpaceX employee injury rate rockets ahead of industry average for the second year running
Records shared by OSHA reveal that at one facility in Brownsville, Texas, the aeronautics company owned...
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Spotifallout | Spotify CEO admits laying off 1,500 employees disrupted workforce "more than we anticipated"
When Spotify announced its largest-ever round of layoffs in December, CEO Daniel Ek hailed a new age...
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'They keep wages low' | FTC announces final landmark ruling banning noncompetes
This week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved, by a 3-2 vote, a final rule that would void and...
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“Everyone else is doing it” | Ex-Amazon AI employee claims she was pressured to breach internal copyright rules to avoid falling behind rivals
According to the lawsuit, Styskin rejected Ghaderi's concerns about Amazon's internal policies, stating...
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‘Craft excellence’ | Shopify offers employees pay raises for upskilling as alternative to unwanted “corporate ladder” promotions
The program, called '~Mastery,' was introduced by Shopify in February, and is an attempt to to transition...
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Like a prank from 'The Office' | Boss accused of workplace bullying puts employee's desk on the roof
A boss at the Antioch Unified School District, Kenneth Turnage II, has come under fire after being accused...
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'Little to no accountability' | House intelligence committee: CIA failed to properly handle sexual assault claims among its employees
In a series of eight findings, the committee reports that victims allegedly saw “little to no accountability...
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‘Historic breakthrough’ | Volkswagen workers vote to join the UAW in landmark unionization victory
The vote means workers in the Chattanooga plant will become the first autoworkers in the South outside...
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Food with integrity? | Chipotle to pay $2.9m in settlement over violations of Seattle labor laws
Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $2.9million to 1,853 employees across eight locations in Seattle...
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Muldrow ruling | Supreme Court lowers bar for workplace discrimination suits in "victory for workers"
The ruling proposes to lower the bar for employees to file lawsuits based on discrimination. Employees...
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