labor
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Employers Can Dock Paid Time Off If Workers Don’t Meet Quotas, U.S. Court Rules
You like your vacation days? You like your little paid scraps of freedom, personal leave, and sick time that allow you to indulge in frivolous human needs like going to the doctor, seeing faraway family, or resting when ill? Well then, you better not fall behind at work, because all of it could legally disappear…
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Iceland’s President Offers Socks to the Disabled Ex-Twitter Employee Mocked by Elon Musk
Haraldur Thorleifsson has had a long week. On Monday, the Icelander tweeted at Elon Musk asking if he still had a job at Twitter, since he had been locked out of his work laptop and hadn’t been able to get in touch with Twitter human resources. On Tuesday, Musk tweeted that no, Thorleifsson did not…
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Leaked Audio Suggests Amazon Is Considering Giving Laid Off Workers Their Jobs Back
Earlier this year, Amazon planned to lay off 18,000 employees. Now a leaked audio from the company appears to indicate that the company may regret that decision. In the audio, an HR executive chews on a strategy to rehire employees that have been laid off.
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YouTube Music’s Contractors Are Actually Employees, According to a Federal Labour Official
Google parent Alphabet should officially be considered the “joint employer” of a crew of scrappy YouTube Music contract workers, according to a new ruling from a National Labour Relation Board official. That means the Austin, Texas-based group of around 60 workers currently vying to organise with the Alphabet Worker Union (AWU) may soon be able…