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Costa Rica promises to compensate sickened banana workers
Costa Rica has agreed to pay the medical bills and other compensation for some 12,000 banana workers and their relatives suffering lingering effects of exposure to pesticides in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Wealth without workers, workers without wealth
Technological revolutions are best appreciated from a distance. The great inventions of the 19th century, from electric power to the internal-combustion engine, transformed the human condition. Yet for workers who lived through the upheaval, the experience of industrialisation was harsh: full of hard toil in crowded, disease-ridden cities.
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Chinatown’s Kitchen Network
Lauren Hilgers on employment agencies that can get Chinese immigrants kitchen jobs across the country in a few hours.
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Germany plans to make sending colleagues work emails after 6pm illegal
The advent of smartphones has allowed us to be plugged in and able to read work emails around the clock. But research suggests that this is adding an extra five hours to the average office worker’s day. That is why Germany is considering bringing in new laws that will make it illegal to email colleagues after 6pm.
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A shout out for the introverts
It’s not news that a lot of IT folk are introverted. But let’s acknowledge what a good thing that is.
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Here's What Happened When An Employee Told Steve Jobs Something Couldn't Be Done
Apple cofounder and former CEO Steve Jobs' reputation preceded him in many ways. Many have attributed Apple's success at least in part to Jobs' obsession with detail and perfection.
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If You Have Unlimited Vacation, Will You Take It?
Last week, the Virgin Group founder Richard Branson announced he’d be giving his employees unlimited time off — and in so doing, incited a debate about whether they’d actually feel they could take it.
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Time for Electronics Industry to End Supply Chain Slavery
Verité calls for the electronics industry to end forced labor in countries like Malaysia by regulating supply chains.
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Microsoft, frustrated as ever with H-1B policy, considers options
A two-day conference on high-skilled immigration policy, which attracted researchers from the U.S. and Europe, offered Microsoft an opportunity to voice frustration over U.S. immigration policy.
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The Science Behind Why Jeff Bezos's Two-Pizza Team Rule Works
Amazon's Jeff Bezos has a famous two-pizza team rule that teams shouldn’t be larger than what two pizzas can feed. Here’s the science behind why it works.
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Professors on food stamps: The shocking true story of academia in 2014
Forget minimum wage, some adjunct professors say they're making 50 cents an hour. Wait till you read these stories
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Microsoft Lays Off 2,100 Employees
The next round of Microsoft layoffs is here. Microsoft is cutting another 2,100 positions on Thursday as part of a previously announced staff reduction plan. The layoffs were first reported by ZDNet and confirmed to Mashable by a source close to the company.
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Starbucks may lift workers' visible tattoo ban
One employee — who has had to hide her tattoos while working at Starbucks for years — says she hopes she won't have to hide them much longer.
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An Actor in Search of Contentment
“I am so thankful to be working, to have a job,” says “Veep” actor Tony Hale. “But, yes, I do often find myself thinking, What’s next?”
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Five arrested in Houston fast food wages protest
Five protesters were arrested Thursday afternoon in front of a McDonalds in Southwest Houston as part of a one-day protest in 150 cities to boost the minimum wage of fast food workers to $15 an hour.
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Street typography
A short film of two craftsmen at work. Happened to see them at work very early one morning and grabbed the camera.
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An interview with Bill Hader by Danny McBride
In his eight years as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Bill Hader had frequent opportunity and the perfect venue to show off his great gift for impersonation. Ever since his very first episode, in 2005, when he and fellow newbie Andy Samberg had an "impression off," Hader has amassed an incredible menagerie of mimicry bits—from his Vincent Price to Alan Alda, from Tim Burton to James Carville, from John Malkovich to Garrison Keillor, and even Al Pacino. While he created some widely
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Civil disobedience expected in fast-food pay fight
McDonald's, Wendy's and other fast-food restaurants are expected to be targeted with acts of civil disobedience that could lead to arrests Thursday as labor organizers escalate their campaign to unionize the industry's workers. Kendall Fells, an organizing director for Fast Food Forward, said workers in a couple of dozen cities were trained to peacefully engage in civil disobedience ahead of this week's planned protests.
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6 Ways to Retain Best Talent Once Hired
So the Human Resource department has invested in finding good employees to join their organization. But their job is only half done.
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Plants in offices increase happiness and productivity
Offices devoid of pictures, souvenirs or any other distractions are "the most toxic space" you can put a human into, say psychologists in a paper published on Monday, which says workers perform better when household plants are added to workplaces.
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