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How low-wage employers cost taxpayers $153B a year
Here's a stark number for understanding how low-wage employers are relying on the kindness of taxpayers: $153 billion. That's the annual bill that state and federal governments are footing for working families making poverty-level wages at big corporations such as Walmart (WMT) and McDonald's (MCD), according to a new study from the University of California Berkeley Labor Center.
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Tears of the Sun
The gold rush at the top of the world.
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The Grueling, Never-Ending Job of Painting the Golden Gate Bridge
Nature wants to turn this American icon to rust. Chad Allan won't let that happen.
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Unpredictable Work Schedules Are a Big Problem For American Workers
On Monday, New York's attorney general announced that he had sent letters to 13 major retailers inquiring about their use of "on-call scheduling," which can make workers responsible for showing up at a moment's notice, or leave them without a shift just as quickly. "Such practices take a toll on workers and prevent employees from securing childcare or pursuing other job and educational opportunities...
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Used Daily By 750K Workers, Slack Raises $160M, Valuing Collaboration Startup At $2.8B
Slack, the popular workplace communication and collaboration startup from Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield — is today confirming that it has raised its latest round of funding: a Series E of $160 million at a post-money valuation of $2.8 billion. This follows on from reports from us and others that it was raising funding at upwards of a $2 billion valuation — a massive premium on its $1.12 billion valuation in October 2014.
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Workers on NYU's Abu Dhabi campus had their passports confiscated
Last year, New York University came under fire for the treatment of laborers building its campus in the United Arab Emirates, a country where labor can look a lot like indentured servitude. In response, the university appointed an independent investigator, Nardello & Co. Its report is out today, and it found that approximately 10,000 workers who built the Abu Dhabi campus lacked the labor protections NYU had stipulated.
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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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News - Paradism
Paradism: For a world without work or money
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'Gods' edging out robots at Toyota facility
Inside Toyota Motor Corp.'s oldest plant, there's a corner where humans have taken over from robots in thwacking glowing lumps of metal into crankshafts...
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I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children
I work 70 hours a week doing two jobs but cannot make ends meet. Presidential hopefuls must make profitable federal contractors pay living wages. By Bertrand Olotara
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A lethal nostalgia
Steel mills, coal mines and blast furnaces have killed and poisoned thousands of Americans – so why feel nostalgia at their passing?
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Minnesota House passes lower minimum wage for tip workers
A change to the minimum wage that would lead to a pay cut for thousands of tip workers passed the Republican led Minnesota House Wednesday by a vote of 73-56
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NYC Bans Running Credit Checks on Job Applicants
–New York City bans the running of credit checks on job applicants http://www.thenation.com/blog/204713/new-york-city-just-outlawed-running-credit-checks-job-applicants
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Why Millions of Americans Feel Like They Have No Power Over Their Lives
We have fewer choices than ever, in just about every area of life.
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This Microsoft ad paints a terrifying future where employees are working literally 24 hours a day
Your work isn't done until you keel over dead, Surface Pro in hand.
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Fury rises at Disney over use of foreign workers
At the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to receive notice of their layoffs.
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Bernie Sanders' Campaign Issues Truly Extraordinary Campaign Plank
The Vermont independent wants Americans to own the businesses they work at by creating worker co-ops
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Rooster Teeth Summer Internships
Hey Guys...
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What kind of jobs do the software engineers who earn $500K a year do?
What kind of tasks or skills make them so valuable? And how can you replicate their success? The premise of the question is somewhat misguided in that there are no $500K guaranteed "earnings" out there for engineers. As the article mentions, this is a combination of salary and restricted stock units (RSU).
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‘Rise of the Robots’ and ‘Shadow Work’
“Rise of the Robots” explores how technology threatens even the nimblest and most expensively educated, and “Shadow Work” shines light on the increase of unpaid work.
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