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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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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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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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SpaceX Sued for Laying Off 400 Workers Without Proper Notice or Wages
On Monday former employees of SpaceX, Elon Musk's own private NASA, filed a proposed class action lawsuit. The complaint alleges that SpaceX "ordered the mass layoffs of between 200 and 400 workers" in late July without properly notifying them or paying the wages they were owed.
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The Trucking Industry Needs More Drivers. Maybe It Needs to Pay More.
Swift Transportation’s 20,000 workers haul goods in almost 14,000 big-rig trucks that travel the interstates and back roads of the United States every day. The company’s performance is closely tied to the nation’s economy, which has been looking increasingly sunny lately.
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More bang for your buck
How new technology is shaking up the oldest business
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Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry
I saw the future of work in a San Francisco garage two years ago. Or rather, I was in proximity to the future of work, but happened to be looking the other direction. At the time, I was visiting a space startup building satellites behind a carport. But just behind them—a robot was cooking up burgers. The inventors of the burger device? Momentum Machines, and they’re serious about fast food productivity.
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My Short Career in the Internet Outrage Business
The target demographic: white males, Rust Belt, fifty-plus. We came in early; I saw the sunrise every morning. We worked in New York City, but I don't think a single coworker lived there. They commuted from Long Island and Jersey and Philly, daily, to be in the office. I lived alone in Brooklyn and it was a straight shot on the M to Bryant Park. I could see the lawn and the library from my desk—the gold and yellow and green filtered light.
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Surprising salaries for jobs you’d never imagine
You don’t need to be a banker or lawyer to earn a good living. These careers pay much more than you think.
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Working Anything but 9 to 5
Scheduling Technology Leaves Low-Income Parents With Hours of Chaos
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Experts fret Canada becoming a ‘nation of part-time workers’
The revised employment figures for July from Statistics Canada provided some relief to experts on Friday, showing the economy added far more jobs than the federal agency had originally stated.
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Algorithms Are Replacing Unions As The Champions of Workers
Quality of life is perhaps the single largest factor underpinning human happiness, and that quality is largely determined by one’s job. It should be no wonder then that so many activists and politicians have made improving work a key element of their advocacy for generations. The history of America is, in many ways, the history of work.
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Glassdoor report says employees rate Twitter highest for culture and values
Tech industry accounts for 11 out of 25 companies rated highest by employees, according to Glassdoor report.
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It's Time for a Four-Day Workweek
Evidence shows that a seven-day week with a two-day weekend is an inefficient model.
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College president takes a $90,000 pay cut to give low-wage workers a raise
Raymond Burse is forfeiting a chunk of his salary at Kentucky State University to improve pay for the lowest-paid workers.
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Are One-Star Reviews for Assholes?
Would you leave a one-star review over bad service if that meant someone would get fired?
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The modern phenomenon of nonsense jobs
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour working week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen. Instead, technology has been marshalled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more...
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Study: Humans Are Happier When We Have Robot Overlords
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have discovered that humans prefer increased autonomy for robots. And no, those researchers were not robots.
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Average full-time workweek is 47 hours, Gallup says
Full-time American workers labor the equivalent of nearly an additional day each week, averaging 47 hours instead of the standard 40, according to Gallup poll results released Friday.
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Bonuses Are the New Raises
Payrolls are rising, but there are strings attached. A new survey from human-resources services firm Aon Hewitt found that companies are spending a record share of their payroll on performance-based bonuses, signaling a shift away from longer-term salary increases.
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