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Totally cool CEO says governments need to punish workers with unemployment to make them less arrogant

Australian CEO of the Gurner Group, a real estate firm, called for governments to cause "pain in the economy" to remind workers that "they work for the employer, not the other way around." I think the problem that we've had is that we've, you... ...

Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year olds to serve alcohol. They can already drink it, after all.

Today I learned that in Wisconsin, minors of any age can drink in bars and restaurants with two stipulations: 1) that they're with "parents, guardians or spouses of legal drinking age," and 2) that it's cool with the establishment's licensee. Now, Repu... ...

Wisconsin Republicans want 14-year olds to serve alcohol. They can already drink it, after all.

Today I learned that in Wisconsin, minors of any age can drink in bars and restaurants with two stipulations: 1) that they're with "parents, guardians or spouses of legal drinking age," and 2) that it's cool with the establishment's licensee. Now, Repu... ...

Four US senators write Jeff Bezos to ask how Amazon protects workers from COVID-19

Four senators, including Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, have written a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to ask what measures are being taken to protect warehouse workers from COVID-19. The coronavirus outbreak that causes this deadly disease has now infected more than 20,000 people throughout America.

“The senators sent the letter two days after ...

At Wayfair, ~550 workers laid off in ‘Valentine’s Day Massacre’

An estimated 550 people who worked at Wayfair lost their jobs last Thursday, in what has been dubbed Wayfair's 'Valentine's Day Massacre.'

The layoffs included 350 workers at the online shopping firm's Boston headquarters.

“I thought I would be an insider to what was happening — I was completely blind-sided," one former HR employee said.

From Mary Hanbury's ...

When contracting with Chinese manufacturers, it’s very hard to avoid forced labor

The China Law Blog (previously) is one of my favorite sources of insight into the secret workings of the businesses that produce the majority of the world's daily-use goods.

The latest post, Forced Labor in China: Don’t trust AND verify, is a sobering example: Fred Rocafort describes how even cursory audits of labor practices ...

Top tech grads are increasingly unwilling to work for Big Tech, viewing it as a new, unethical Wall Street

About five years ago, I was trying to get a bunch of Big Tech companies to take the right side of an urgent online civil rights fight, and I called an old friend who was very senior at one of the biggest tech companies in the world; they told me that it wasn't going to ...