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Starbucks baristas getting raises and a snack
Starbucks is giving its workers raises, free food and the ability to show off their tattoos.
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Tech Company Paid Foreign Workers $1.21 an Hour: Investigators
A Bay Area tech company has been slapped with a fine and ordered to pay thousands of dollars in back wages after a United States Department of Labor investigation revealed the company paid workers $1.21 an hour.
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One Google Employee Explains Why Working At Google Is So Great
Google has a rep as a fabulous employer. Is working at Google overrated? Uhm. No, employees say. It really is that fantastic.
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'Tea-break' employment bill becomes law
A law which takes away the legal right to a tea break and weakens collective bargaining has taken line honours as the first law change passed in National's third term, squeaking into law by 62 votes to 58.
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One Day in an Elevator With Obama, Then Out of a Job
Kenneth Tate toiled for years as a construction worker and corrections officer, and he has no doubt that his last job — working as a $42,000-a-year private security guard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — was the best he ever had.
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The Art of Not Working at Work
At first, the ability to check email, read ESPN, or browse Zappos while on the job may feel like a luxury. But in time, many crave more meaningful—and more demanding—responsibilities.
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North Koreans working as ‘state-sponsored slaves’ in Qatar
Defectors claim Pyongyang regime pockets 90% or more of earnings made by migrants working on construction sites in Qatar, where preparations are under way for 2022 World Cup
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Japan Is Building A New Hotel That Will Be Staffed Completely By Robots
If the idea of robots taking over the world sounds appealing to you, you ought to consider booking a stay at Japan’s Henn-na Hotel. Slated to open this summer, the new accommodations will feature a staff of 10 robots, which will be programmed to do everything a human staff usually does (but probably with a lot less attitude and more efficiency, let’s be honest).
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Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace.
A year ago, my boss announced that our large New York ad agency would be moving to an open office. After nine years as a senior writer, I was forced to trade in my private office for a seat at a long, shared table. It felt like my boss had ripped off my clothes and left me standing in my skivvies.
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Headhunter tells millennials how to land jobs and keep them
Citrin, with three children in their 20s, wrote a book called "The Career Playbook" to help millennials — and anyone, for that matter — land jobs and keep them. We asked him to share some advice for job hunters.
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Your Employer Is Not Your Friend, and Young People Know It
For all their faults, millennials are actually very well-equipped to handle the job market's current trends.
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Joblessness not due to skills gap, experts say
"Every time you hear someone say 'I can't find the workers I need,' add the phrase 'at the wage I want to pay'," said Heidi Shierholz, an economist for the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C., economic research organization.
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Is It Time For Companies To Pay For Not Paying Enough? The "Walmart Tax" Gains Momentum
When employers don’t pay their workers a living wage, taxpayers are forced to pick up the tab in the form of government assistance. Some states are considering telling the poor-paying companies to pick up the tab instead.
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Regulation? Great Idea. For Someone Else.
An overtime expansion tells workers that bureaucrats know better.
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In A Sneaky Move, Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP Take Away Workers’ Right To Weekends Off
In a move designed to turn the clock in Wisconsin back to the 19th Century, Scott Walker and Republicans in the state legislature have included a provision in the budget that takes away a worker's right to the weekend off.
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The Question of Slowing Productivity Amidst Rising Automation
We all know how the saying goes about giving someone a fish and teaching someone to fish. But what happens when we build a robot to fish? Do we all starve or do we all eat?
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Jeb and the Nation of Takers
Maybe we were unfair to Mitt Romney; Jeb “people should work longer hours” Bush is making him look like a model of empathy for the less fortunate. All the obvious points apply: longer hours would mean more GDP (if and when the economy ever gets back to full employment), but not necessarily better lives, especially if the increase in GDP doesn’t trickle down.
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The Laziness Dogma
Mr. Bush’s aides have tried to spin away his remark, claiming that he was only referring to workers trying to find full-time jobs who remain stuck in part-time employment. It’s obvious from the context, however, that this wasn’t what he was talking about.
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Pay Is Stagnant for Vast Majority, Even When You Include Benefits
Between 2007 and 2014 the median worker’s wages and compensation declined, respectively, by 4.0 and 1.9 percent. Among the bottom 40 percent of workers there was an even greater decline in compensation than there was in wages, indicating that including benefits as well as wages in an analysis results in a more adverse trends
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Don't blame your expensive lunch on minimum wage increases
Chipotle is just the latest company in the city to claim labor costs as the reason for price hikes. It sounds logical. Wages go up 10%, prices of menu items go up 10%. It’s fair, right? But Chipotle co-CEOs Steve Ells and Monty Moran’s earnings in 2014 were $28.9m and $28.2m, respectively. Ells also brought in around $42m in stock options in 2014, yet prices must go up because the lowest paid workers received a $1 raise?
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