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West African healthcare systems reel as Ebola toll hits 932
MONROVIA/DAKAR (Reuters) - Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia shut a hospital
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Slaves of Happiness Island
What’s often lost in the reporting about foreign labor in the United Arab Emirates is the agency of the workers themselves. The men I met in the Gulf are brave and ambitious—heroes to their families back home.
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LinkedIn in $6m labour settlement
LinkedIn has agreed to pay $6m (£3.6m) in wages and damages after regulators found it failed to account for all the hours worked by its employees. This includes $3.3m in unpaid wages and $2.5m in damages to be paid to 359 former and current employees. It also agreed to provide compliance training and distribute its policy on overtime work to all applicable staff.
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When Workers Own Their Companies, Everyone Wins
How a very old economic model could help the new economy
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‘The end of work’ with Ray Kurzweil, Andrew McAfee, Chris Lydon
The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn’t need you, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better — surgery, warfare, farming, finance. What’s to do? Shall we smash the machines, or go to the beach, or finally learn to play the piano?
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I’ve worked at McDonald’s for 10 years and still make $7.35 an hour
As fast-food workers, we prepare burgers and fries, not balance sheets. We struggle to survive from paycheck to paycheck, without million-dollar annual bonuses or second homes. We often work behind the scenes—or counters, getting little of the credit for billions of dollars in company profits.
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2,500 Ground Zero workers have cancer
More than 2,500 Ground Zero rescuers and responders have come down with cancer, and a growing number are seeking compensation for their illnesses, The Post has learned The grim toll has skyrocketed from the 1,140 cancer cases reported last year.
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If TaskRabbit Is the Future of Employment, the Employed Are Fucked
The employment of the future is here, and it's terrific for everyone except the people doing the work. TaskRabbit, which lets you outsource the things you don't want to do to people who need money, is at the forefront of this chore revolution, and it's already making some lives harder.
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The Real Reason For The 40-Hour Workweek
One man argues that the modern workweek is meant to drive us to consumerism. I’ve only been back at work for a few days, but already I’m noticing that the more wholesome activities are quickly dropping out of my life: walking, exercising, reading, meditating, and extra writing. The one conspicuous similarity between these activities is that they cost little or no money, but they take time.
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Artist got $35K for two weeks of no work, says developer of failed Kickstarter game
The developer of a video game project that raised half a million dollars over Kickstarter and collapsed without delivering it has provided a rough accounting of where the money went.
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When the Boss Says, 'Don't Tell Your Coworkers How Much You Get Paid'
Last fall, I became a barista in a small, “socially responsible” coffee company. A few months later, I got a temporary paralegal position at one of the world’s biggest multinational, corporate law firms. The two companies had little in common, but both told me one thing: Don't talk to your coworkers about your pay.
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Original loading
Creative approach to work
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Company limits bathroom breaks to 6 minutes a day
Union reps say a Chicago faucet manufacturer is monitoring the bathroom time of workers, and warning some about excessive use. Workers won't sit still for it.
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What makes a call center great?
Do you have what it takes for a successful and fulfilling call center career? Learn which traits make for a great career in the call center industry.
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Executive pay '180 times average', report finds
Executive pay has grown from 60 times that of the average worker to almost 180 times since the 1990s, according to a report. The High Pay Centre, a think tank, said shareholders were still backing high executive pay deals despite new powers to vote them down at annual meetings. The pay of the average FTSE 100 chief executive increased from £4.1m to £4.7m last year, said the report.
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Samsung finds China child labour 'evidence'
Samsung Electronics said it has found "evidence of suspected child labour" at a factory of its Chinese supplier Dongguan Shinyang Electronics. The firm conducted an investigation into the supplier after New York-based campaign group, China Labor Watch, accused it of hiring children.
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Your boss uses Facebook at work more than you do
A new study by researchers in Norway, reported recently in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, surveyed more than 11,000 employees about their views on cyberslacking at work. It found that top-level managers were more likely to disapprove of looking at social media sites during office hours, despite that research has shown its advantages. Yet they also reported spending significantly more time on such sites at work than those who sit lower in the pecking order.
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Meet the People Who Retrieve the Stuff You Drop On the Tracks
Lost and Underground: Meet the People Who Retrieve the Stuff You Drop On the Tracks
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Smelling Death: On the Job With New York's Crime-Scene Cleaners
CSI and Law & Order would have you believe that a crime scene empties out after the glitzy detectives are done with it. In reality, somebody else has to come in and clean it all up.
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Google Co-Founder: People Shouldn't Have to Work So Much
It sounds like a dream: Work part-time while maintaining the same standard of living. Google co-founder Larry Page thinks it should be a reality for everyone. The tech titan and his co-founder, Sergey Brin, sat down for a rare joint interview that was moderated by fellow billionaire, Vinod Khosta, and posted to YouTube.
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