Posts Tagged ‘labor’
King Richard's Faire is the largest Renaissance Faire in New England. It was originally founded in 1972 by concert producer **** Shapiro, whose family still runs the operation to these days. But according to a recent viral Reddit post, the succes... ...
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... ...
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... ...
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... ...
A McDonald's restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky operated by franchisee Bauer Food LLC had two 10-year-olds working at the restaurant, unpaid, sometimes until 2am. I doubt the kids were loving it. Bauer was hit with just a $39,711 in fines for the child... ...
Union supporters face a setback in Bessemer, Alabama, but indicate the fight isn’t over yet. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...