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Listing Jobs but Not Hiring: Indeed Cuts 15% of Staff
Lots of tech company workers have found themselves unemployed recently. And with the likes of Amazon and Meta confirming new rounds of layoffs just this month — even more former employees of big tech are likely to be job hunting soon.
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PagerDuty CEO: I’m Sorry I Quoted Martin Luther King Jr. When I Laid Off All Those People
PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada, the author of the worst tech layoff email in recent months, wants you to know that she’s sorry. In hindsight, she said, refusing to say the word “layoffs” and quoting Martin Luther King Jr. was probably not the right thing to do when you’re laying off 7% of your employees.
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A U.S. FTC Proposal Could Kill Noncompete Clauses
The Federal Trade Commission announced today a proposal for a new rule that could effectively kill noncompete clauses. The commission argues that banning noncompete clauses could result in a $US300 ($416) billion total increase in American wages.
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U.S. House Committees Slam ID.me for ‘Baseless’ Unemployment Fraud Claims
ID.me, the controversial biometric identification verification company whose facial match technology provoked a major privacy backlash at the IRS earlier this year, may have misled the public and lawmakers when its CEO claimed the U.S. lost $US400 ($555) billion to fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims. Its biometric services, billed as a convenient and secure way to…