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[Grand Potentate]

What it's like working at Amazon during a Southern California heat wave

During this month's historic heat wave, employees at Amazon's largest West Coast air freight facility were conducting their own workplace temperature checks.

www.latimes.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Pay gap: Will Gen Z salary-sharing on TikTok make a difference?

Shifting views are tackling the taboo of talking salary - will this help improve pay equity?

www.bbc.com

What is the point of this? Pay equity?

For every function corporations can always find a sustainable market salary median and move people up or down to it. That would be the fixed price employment contract to perform that function.

There wouldn't be a need for individual merit increases. Unless you get promoted and take on substantial additional responsibilities you get compensated like everyone else at fixed price no matter how much you work or don't work.

Is that what people want?

 

[Grand Potentate]

Equifax surveilled 1,000 remote workers, fired 24 found juggling two jobs

Equifax used its own worker surveillance product to spy on workers fired.

arstechnica.com

 

[Fwiffo]

Equifax surveilled 1,000 remote workers, fired 24 found juggling two jobs

Equifax used its own worker surveillance product to spy on workers fired.

arstechnica.com

They have every right to surveil employee use of company equipment. And you have to declare you are entering into other employment agreements especially if it is a competitor.

 

[Fwiffo]

Moonlighting: The controversy among India’s tech workers

Remote work has allowed some Indian tech workers to take on two jobs or pursue side hustles – but some firms are not happy.

www.bbc.com

"Yet not everyone is so blasé about moonlighting. Rishad Premji, the chairman of Indian tech and consulting firm Wipro, which recently fired 300 workers for taking second jobs with rival companies, spoke out strongly about moonlighting in the tech industry: 'This is cheating - plain and simple,' he tweeted."

Leakage of competitive secrets.

 

[ter1413]

Fans demand James Corden apologize to Balthazar staff instead of owner

Corden was outed by restaurateur Keith McNally who shamed him over two incidents - one in June and another in October. McNally has forgiven him - but others aren't so merciful.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Fwiffo]

Fans demand James Corden apologize to Balthazar staff instead of owner

Corden was outed by restaurateur Keith McNally who shamed him over two incidents - one in June and another in October. McNally has forgiven him - but others aren't so merciful.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Heard about that. Another celebrity who is a wanker isn't new but to get worked up over a French omelette it makes you wonder how he is when his show careens off script on camera.

 

[Grand Potentate]

An ex-TikTok moderator, who was paid $10 a day and had to scroll through child abuse and gun violence, was required to keep her webcam on all night, report says

Colombian moderators work six days a week for $261 a month, compared with about $2,200 in the UK, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported.

www.businessinsider.com

 

[Fwiffo]

An ex-TikTok moderator, who was paid $10 a day and had to scroll through child abuse and gun violence, was required to keep her webcam on all night, report says

Colombian moderators work six days a week for $261 a month, compared with about $2,200 in the UK, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported.

www.businessinsider.com

Funny. I had some dealings with Teleperformance and call centre outsourcing.

 

[Grand Potentate]

 

[Fwiffo]

Meta, Amazon, Twitter layoffs: 'Tech layoffs won't destroy American dreams of Indians’

Surbhi Gupta, who was laid off in the US, on the uncertainties she and other visa holders are dealing with.

www.bbc.com

"My last day at Meta is in January and my H1-B visa [a non-immigrant visa that allows firms in the US to hire foreigners for up to six years] allows me to stay in the US for another 60 days, so early March is the deadline for me to find another job."

Or just over stay your visa like the other ethnicities.

 

[Thruth]

Meta, Amazon, Twitter layoffs: 'Tech layoffs won't destroy American dreams of Indians’

Surbhi Gupta, who was laid off in the US, on the uncertainties she and other visa holders are dealing with.

www.bbc.com

"My last day at Meta is in January and my H1-B visa [a non-immigrant visa that allows firms in the US to hire foreigners for up to six years] allows me to stay in the US for another 60 days, so early March is the deadline for me to find another job."

Or just over stay your visa like the other ethnicities.

Boo fucking hoo. The only reason she was on an H1-B is that she works for cheap below what the would pay Americans if they wanted to pay Americans to do the job. Subcontracted out as a business whore by a contractor paid to recruit from backward lands.

 

[Fwiffo]

New York Times faces first major walkout since 1970s

More than 1,100 union members are planning to participate in the 8 December stoppage.

www.bbc.com

Does that mean the pay wall gets dropped?

 

[Grand Potentate]

Fed chair Powell on the U.S. labor shortage: COVID, retirements, missing immigrants

Close to half a million working-age people lost their lives to COVID.

www.axios.com

 

[Fwiffo]

What do you mean, day off?

Workers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by Tesco, as supermarket says it knew nothing of claims about VKG

www.theguardian.com

I think I am more confused that Tesco actually makes clothing. Who buys grocery store brand clothing? M&S I get...

 

[ter1413]

What do you mean, day off?

Workers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by Tesco, as supermarket says it knew nothing of claims about VKG

www.theguardian.com

I think I am more confused that Tesco actually makes clothing. Who buys grocery store brand clothing? M&S I get...

I guess loads of people.

Often, stores like that have club cards and that gets people extra discounts. Sorta like Costco/BJ's here in the US.

Not everyone wears custom made suits/shoes every day.

 

[Fwiffo]

'I quit my job rather than go back to the office'

Is there a growing divide between employers who want staff back in the office and employees who want to work from home?

www.bbc.com

"'We're in the UK, productivity is at an all-time low. You have people... saying to you, 'we are more productive with a remote first type set-up.' Why not trust them and see what happens as part of a great experiment?'"

All-time low?

 

[Thruth]

What do you mean, day off?

Workers tell of sweatshop conditions at Thai factory used by Tesco, as supermarket says it knew nothing of claims about VKG

www.theguardian.com

I think I am more confused that Tesco actually makes clothing. Who buys grocery store brand clothing? M&S I get...

I guess you never go to Superstore or Independent. Lots of people buy clothing there.

 

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[Grand Potentate]

Dying for your high: The untold exploitation and misery in America’s weed industry

California has largely ignored the immigrant workers who harvest America’s weed. Their exploitation is one of the most overlooked narratives of the era of legal cannabis.

www.latimes.com

this was a really depressing read for any of you pot heads out there.

 

[Grand Potentate]

Workplace Fatalities Hit Highest Rate Since 2016

The nation's fatal worker injury rate is "unacceptable."

www.manufacturing.net

 

[ballmouse]

Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977

He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating strokes had left the 47-year-old electrician with halting speech, an enlarged heart and violent...

finance.yahoo.com

 

[Grand Potentate]

Social Security denies disability benefits based on list with jobs from 1977

He had made it through four years of denials and appeals, and Robert Heard was finally before a Social Security judge who would decide whether he qualified for disability benefits. Two debilitating strokes had left the 47-year-old electrician with halting speech, an enlarged heart and violent...

finance.yahoo.com

All the people involved with this should be shot and killed.

 

[Dropbear]

 

[Fwiffo]

This looks like a well run nation.

 

[Fwiffo]

China Covid: Workers making tests clash with police at factory

Workers protest at an antigen test kit factory in over layoff and wage disputes, videos show.

www.bbc.com

"In one video, hundreds of workers could be seen gathering outside the factory, some of them shouting: 'Give us our money back!'

Boxes of antigen test kits could be seen strewn on the ground.

Some videos suggest later at night some protesters threw chairs, crates and traffic cones at a group of riot police deployed at the scene, forcing the officers to retreat.

'It is only right and proper that you need to pay money back if you owe others, this is the road of demanding unpaid salary,' captions on the videos read."

 

[Fwiffo]

Nurses in England strike as NHS is mired in crisis

“I can never remember a time when we had so many patients that we couldn’t admit,” one nurse said.

www.nbcnews.com

All leading up to a co-ordinated (general?) strike on 1st February.

 

[ter1413]

The companies that churn through young workers

Some employers look to hire and continually turn over junior employees – sometimes harming young workers’ careers before they’ve even begun.

www.bbc.com

 

[Fwiffo]

France strikes: One million protest against Macron's rise in retirement age

Protesters take to the streets across France over plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

www.bbc.com

Give us the money you owe us Macron - screamed the French masses.

 

[Grand Potentate]

France strikes: One million protest against Macron's rise in retirement age

Protesters take to the streets across France over plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

www.bbc.com

Give us the money you owe us Macron - screamed the French masses.

The French laborers remain the best hope for us all.

 

[Grand Potentate]

 

[Fwiffo]

ChatGPT passes MBA exam given by a Wharton professor

The bot’s performance on the test has “important implications for business school education," wrote Christian Terwiesch, a professor at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

www.nbcnews.com

“Much of the debate is centered around ChatGPT’s conversational speaking style and coherent, topical response style, which makes it difficult to distinguish from human responses.

Experts who work in both artificial intelligence and education have acknowledged that bots like ChatGPT could be a detriment to education in the future. But in recent interviews with NBC News, some educators and experts they weren’t concerned — yet.”

Time to replace a few entitled white collar MBA graduates with the mighty AI

 

[Grand Potentate]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/25/business/california-fast-food-law-workers/index.html

McDonald’s, In-N-Out, and Chipotle are spending millions to block raises for their workers​

 

[Fwiffo]

Britain hit by biggest day of strikes in a decade as pay disputes escalate

"The strikes will take a toll on already slowing economic growth. The United Kingdom is likely to be the only major economy to fall into recession this year, after recording one of the strongest growth rates among advanced economies last year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF)."

Strikes are not good for the economy. Keep working.

 

[Dropbear]

Ope. Back to the sweatshop you go, kiddo!

 

[Fwiffo]

US food sanitation firm fined after children worked nights

More than 100 teenagers, ages 13-17, worked for a sanitation company, the Department of Labor says.

www.bbc.com

"US child labour rules bar employment of those under the age of 14. Teens ages 14 and 15 cannot work later than 7pm during the school year or past 9pm over the summer."

Good thing a lot of the work I did around and below those years was cash only.

 

[Fwiffo]

Enforcing work life balance or controlling overtime pay?

 

[Fwiffo]

Delta pilots approve new contract with 34% raises

The ratification makes the Atlanta-based airline the first of the largest U.S. carriers to finalize a labor agreement with its 15,000 pilots since the pandemic began.

www.nbcnews.com

"The new four-year contract includes 18% raises on date of signing, then 5% next year, 4% in 2025 and 4% in 2026."

 

[Fwiffo]

Arkansas Gov. Sanders signs measure rolling back child labor protections

The bill eliminates a requirement that the state verify the age of children under 16 before companies can hire them.

www.nbcnews.com

Let's get those migrant children back to clean up the meat plants overnight.