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In China, 1,600 People Die Every Day From Working Too Hard
Chinese banking regulator Li Jianhua literally worked himself to death. After 26 years of “always putting the cause of the party and the people” first, his employer said in June, the 48-year-old official died of a heart attack rushing to finish a report before the sun came up. China is facing an epidemic of overwork, to hear the state-controlled press and Chinese social media tell it.
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Germany to adopt minimum wage to help working poor
Germany is set to introduce a national minimum wage on Thursday, long resisted by conservatives who say it will make industries uncompetitive, but which is hoped will help the poor and stimulate demand.
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What Top Companies Get Right
Take a look at what some of the best companies are doing to build their success from the ground up.
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Shopper shocked to find bargain £10 dress has 'exhausted labour' tag
A SWANSEA shopper is vowing not to wear a bargain dress bought in the city because it may be the result of exploitive labour. Rebecca Gallagher was shocked to read a label in a bargain £10 summer dress she bought from a High Street fashion chain because it read: "Forced to work exhausting hours".
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Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (The Real Reason For The Forty-Hour Workweek)
Well I’m in the working world again. I’ve found myself a well-paying gig in the engineering industry, and life finally feels like it’s returning to normal after my nine months of traveling. Because I had been living quite a different lifestyle while I was away, this sudden transition to 9-to-5 existence has exposed something about it that I overlooked before...
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Corporate America is taking out life insurance on its employees so companies can profit from workers' deaths
Employees at The Orange County Register received an unsettling email from corporate headquarters this year. The owner of the newspaper, Freedom Communications, was writing to request workers’ consent to take out life insurance policies on them.
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Why You Need to Close Your Open Offices Now
The open office trend has reached a fever pitch, with nearly 70 percent of American workers now residing in them. But is an open office really the best way to go?
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A job waiting tables after college could suppress your wages for years
It has become relatively common, even unremarkable, for young people to spend a time after they’ve graduated college waiting tables, doing clerical work, or working retail. Nearly half of a group of four-year-degree graduates surveyed by McKinsey last year said they had a job that didn’t require a degree. And many are advised to take any job they can find, even if it’s one that doesn’t require a degree, to build their resumes and skills.
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Modern-Day Slavery in America's Prison Workforce
The median wage in state and federal prisons is 20 and 31 cents an hour, respectively.
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Swedes test a future of less work, more play
Gothenburg (Sweden) (AFP) - Robert Nilsson, a 25-year-old mechanic in Sweden's second city Gothenburg, may be the harbinger of a future where people work less and still enjoy a high standard of living. He gets out of bed at the same time as everyone else, but instead of rushing to work, he takes it easy, goes for a jog, enjoys his breakfast, and doesn't arrive at his Toyota workshop until noon, only to punch out again at 6:00 pm. Most of them think because I work six hours, I shouldn't be...
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Should Doctors Work for Hospitals?
Hospitals are buying up medical practices at a feverish pace. According to data from the American Hospital Association, the number of physicians employed by hospitals grew by 34 percent between 2000 and 2010, and the pace shows no signs of slackening. In reviewing its data for the past decade, a large physician recruiting firm found that in 2004 only 11 percent of physician searches were conducted by hospitals, but by 2013 that figure had risen to 63 percent.
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Using Jailed Migrants as a Pool of Cheap Labor
The kitchen of the detention center here was bustling as a dozen immigrants boiled beans and grilled hot dogs, preparing lunch for about 900 other detainees. Elsewhere, guards stood sentry and managers took head counts, but the detainees were doing most of the work — mopping bathroom stalls, folding linens, stocking commissary shelves.
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Why Today's Fast Food Wage Protests Won't Force Companies To Pony Up
The movement for higher wages in the fast food industry is gaining widespread attention and public support, but it's unlikely to change workers' paychecks any time soon.
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McDonald's workers protest low wages as shareholders weigh executive pay
Hundreds of low-wage McDonald's workers protested near the fast-food chain's headquarters on Wednesday calling for a significant pay hike as shareholders prepare to weigh in on the company's executive compensation.
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For Chevron, $6 a day is apparently too much pay for Cambodian workers
Is $6 a day really too much for a multibillion-dollar energy company to pay its workers in Cambodia? This is a question Chevron Cambodia Ltd. is grappling with. Starting on May 12, over 200 workers at Chevron’s Caltex gas stations across this capital city ground the firm’s business to a halt, demanding their salaries be increased from $110 to $160 a month.
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The Office from Beginning to End
In “Cubed,” Nikil Saval, an editor at n+1, is interested in the office as a place: filing cabinets and photocopiers, rolling chairs and cubicles. Most of what he has to say is not only familiar but derivative; as he admits, his book is “chiefly a work of synthesis.” Still, “Cubed” is cleverly pieced together and much more subtle and sophisticated than its fun-facts-in-a-box P.R.
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Swiss reject highest minimum wage
Swiss voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to introduce what would have been the highest minimum wage in the world in a referendum.
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Tesla now California's top automotive employer
Tesla has knocked off Toyota as the biggest auto employer in the state of California, employing over 6,000 people to the Japanese company's 5,300. That lead is only likely to grow, as the EV manufacturer prepares to add another 500 jobs by the end of the year, and as Toyota begins its relocation to its new North American headquarters in Texas. The news comes barely a week after the company announced a $50 million loss during the first quarter of 2014.
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No matter what the boss says about flextime, get to work early
Flex-time is not as flexible as you might think. The belief that getting an early start to the day is virtuous is widely held. In fact, finds a forthcoming study, it’s so pervasive that managers rate workers who get an early start higher than those who get in and stay late, no matter how many hours they work in total or how well they do their jobs. And it could explain why other research has found that workers who have flexible schedules have less successful careers.
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Girl Quits Job Using 33 White Board Messages. Her Boss Comes Back And Nails Her
She was not expecting him to come back with such a clever response. Embarrassing!
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