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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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‘Fake work’ & ‘BS’ jobs | Leading VC investor claims half of Google does "no real work"
“Anyone who works in a 10,000+ person or larger white-collar job company knows that a bunch of the...
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‘Greedy corporations’ | Uber & Lyft accused of dodging $266mn in benefit contributions through employee misclassification
A Massachusetts State Auditor released a report on Tuesday, April 30, accusing companies like Uber and...
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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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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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‘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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'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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Retention rethink | FTC set to vote on controversial noncompete clause ban with NCAs costing workers $3bn per year
Noncompete agreements are clauses included in contracts between a worker and employer that prohibit the...
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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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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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‘The Happiest Place on Earth’? | Disneyland 'characters' file to unionize seeking better pay, safety, and scheduling
Over two-thirds of Disneyland's 1,700 performers have signed a petition, allowing the group of 'Cast...
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“We will not tolerate it” | Google fires 28 employees for protest against Israel contract - sacked staffers claim terminations are “illegal” retaliation
Google has fired 28 employees for participating in a protest against the company's “Project Nimbus”...
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NPR fracas | Senior editor suspended amidst controversy over essay criticizing network's editorial stance
The fallout from a scathing essay penned by a senior business editor at NPR has led to his suspension...
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Cannabis-sed off | 600 workers at Eaze, the “Uber of weed,” threaten 'unprecedented' strike over pay and conditions
Eleven depots across California would be disrupted by the strike, which could come just ahead of April...
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