Sandra Beadling was fed up with the 70-hour workweeks, the delivery trucks running days behind schedule, and the wear and tear on her knees from all the stooping to restock […]
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Back to news home100 Isn’t a Magic Number, So Why Is It Part of the Vaccine Mandate?
But if you want a small-business loan? There, the government’s definition is far more expansive. The Small Business Administration, which orchestrated the popular Paycheck Protection Program, generally considers any company […]
Why You Might Not Be Returning to the Office Until Next Year
Postponing gives the workers who are responding to new requirements sufficient time to become fully vaccinated. And it gives companies more time to set up the logistics that accompany vaccination […]
California Bill Could Alter Amazon Labor Practices
Among the pandemic’s biggest economic winners is Amazon, which nearly doubled its annual profit last year to $21 billion and is on pace to far exceed that total this year.The […]
When Heat Waves, Wildfires and Drought Grip Oregon and Washington
In early summer, a day laborer laying irrigation lines at a plant nursery just south of Portland, Ore., collapsed to the ground and died. His official cause of death was […]
Alibaba Faces Reckoning Over Harassment
At an employee dinner, women were told to rank the attractiveness of the men at the table. During a team-building exercise, a woman was pressured to straddle her male co-worker […]
Delta’s Extra $200 Insurance Fee Shows Vaccine Dilemma for Employers
At Delta, the surcharge is one of several new requirements for unvaccinated workers. Starting immediately, those employees will have to wear masks indoors. In about two weeks, they will be […]
Flight Attendants’ Hellish Summer: ‘I Don’t Even Feel Like a Human’
But while airlines are eager to capitalize on the demand, many appear to lack the staffing to keep up.Bureau of Transportation Statistics data show that the number of full-time-equivalent employees […]
They Don’t Want the Shot. They Don’t Want Colleagues to Know.
“We’ve taken the stance that we’re not going to ask employees to get vaccinated because of the sheer multiple who don’t want to get vaccinated,” said Mr. Lucanera, who is […]
Amazon Faces Wider Fight Over Labor Practices
Perhaps the most prominent voice in this discussion is the more than one-million-member International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which approved a resolution at its convention in June committing the union to […]