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How Fast Food Companies Steal Workers’ Pay
By Seth Freed Wessler Olivia Roffle has worked at Papa John’s Pizza in St. Louis, Mo., for three years and she hates it. “It’s just not an enjoyable place to work,” she says. The 23 year old, who is enrolled in classes … Continue reading
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Tagged Burger King, Chicago, employment, fast food, jobs, Living wage, McDonald, Missouri, New York City, Papa John's Pizza, St. Louis, Wage, wage disparity
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Do private-sector unions still have a future in the U.S.?
By Brad Plumer In the latest issue of Democracy, Rich Yeselson has a long and interesting essay considering the decline of private-sector labor unions in the United States and whether they might ever make a comeback. The piece is way … Continue reading
Half Lives: Why the Part-time Economy Is Bad for Everyone
By Lynn Stuart Parramore Why is a whole job getting harder to find every day in America? Ever since the financial crash, a growing number of people have been forced to take part-time gigs when what they really want is … Continue reading
Minority unemployment gap is still widening
By Michelle Singletary Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the employment gap between young minorities and young whites continues to grow, reports Edward Wyckoff Williams, a contributing editor of The Root. In 2011, 42.6 … Continue reading
Nilofer Merchant – Got a meeting? Take a walk
Nice idea, I will start trying this. Exercise saves lives.
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Tagged employment, excercise, health, jobs, meeting, productivity, TED, video
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Empowering America’s Rising Workforce–Latina Girls–in Computing and Innovation
By Dr. Idit Harel Caperton It recently came to my attention, that throughout the nation, young men and women who are Latino are, unfortunately, caught on the wrong side of the digital divide. I have spent much of my career working on … Continue reading
Stop Emphasizing the Quality of Your Work and Do This Instead
By Ben Drake In the vast majority of cases, your quality doesn’t matter. Yup, that’s right. Why? Because no one cares about the quality of your work; people care about the quality of their own work.This does not apply to the unconditional … Continue reading
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Tagged business, career, career advice, career growth, employment, job, life, Matter, Product (chemistry), Value (economics), work
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Now They Want to Take Away the 8-Hour Day and 40-Hour Week
By Dave Johnson Republicans are trying to pass an “alternative” to overtime pay. This is really about taking away the eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek. Will weekends be next? What about an “alternative” to paying workers at all? House Republicans … Continue reading
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Tagged Eight-hour day, employment, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, jobs, law, Overtime, politics, republican, United States, Working time
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Furloughs Only The Latest Blow To Federal Worker Morale
Federal workers say they don’t have much to celebrate these days. Furloughs began in April, exacerbating already low morale for many government agencies as budgets have tightened. Downsizing has meant more work for those who remain, and talk of further … Continue reading
Pregnant T-Mobile Employee Clocked Out to Use Toilet
By Abby Ellin Kristi Rifkin had been working at T-Mobile Call Center in Nashville for four years when she got pregnant with her third child. She says she loved her job. “I had a great run,” Rifkin, 40, told ABC News. … Continue reading
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Tagged Call centre, discrimination, employment, job, Kristi Rifkin, MomsRising.org, Nashville, pregnancy, pregnancy discrimination, T-Mobile, Tennessee, work
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