BANGKOK – Thai workers who were sacked last year from a factory supplying global lingerie brands including Victoria’s Secret will receive $8.3 million, in what labour activists say is the …
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Office Workers Now Have the Power to Shape Their Environment – Employees Take Back Control with PriWatt™ Smart Glass, from Smart Glass Technologies
by Your NewsMIAMI, May 25, 2022 — Leading providers of Switchable Glass and Film, SmartGlass Technologies™ (SGT) recently explored how companies can help workers feel better about returning to the office despite …
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BELGRADE – Stellantis has offered some workers at its plant in Serbia a choice between moving abroad for two years to re-train in electric car production, or taking redundancy, it …
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(Reuters) – Valero Energy and three contractors have been fined a total $1.75 million for safety violations related to a worker’s death on Nov. 12, 2021 at its 145,000 barrel-per-day …
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Florida Power Company Pleads Guilty in Worker Death Case, Incident Resulted in the Deaths of Five Workers
by DOJ PressTampa, FL – A Florida corporation pleaded guilty in federal court in the Middle District of Florida to a charge of willfully violating an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) …
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(Reuters) – The New York Times Co said on Wednesday it is pausing its plan to ask employees to return to office as COVID-19 cases rise in the United States. …
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(Reuters) – Apple Inc is indefinitely delaying a plan that would require employees to work from office three days a week due to rising COVID-19 cases, Bloomberg News reported nL3N2V73MG …
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Trenton, NJ – Trenton Democrats are once again seeking to pass legislation to fix problems caused by Governor Phil Murphy’s extended COVID-19 lockdown and restrictive COVID-19 policies and regulations. During …
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NEW YORK, NY – A public school construction foreman working for the New York City School Construction Authority demanded kickbacks from workers at the PS 71 public school project in …
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Suburban Chicago Manufacturing Executives Guilty of Scheming To Hire Undocumented Workers
by DOJ PressCHICAGO — Two siblings who operated a suburban Chicago manufacturing company have pleaded guilty in federal court to knowingly hiring undocumented workers. KENNETH KUZELKA, 64, of Chicago, pleaded guilty Thursday …
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By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL – North Korea’s office workers and factory labourers have been dispatched to farming areas around the country to join a fight against drought, state media reported …
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(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc workers have voted against unionizing a second warehouse in New York City, a ballot count on Monday showed, representing a defeat for labor organizers who just …
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ATHENS – Metro trains ground to a halt and ships were docked in ports as thousands of workers joined May Day rallies in the Greek capital to protest against soaring …
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WASHINGTON – Kurt Madsen, 53, of Arlington, Virginia, has been found guilty by a jury on charges stemming from a hate crime in which …
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By Liz Hampton, Stephanie Kelly and Nia Williams (Reuters) – When Jeremy Davis was laid off from his oilfield job in Texas in 2020, he did not want to leave …
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By Uditha Jayasinghe and Alasdair Pal COLOMBO – Many schools in Colombo were shut and several train stations deserted on Thursday as teachers and train drivers joined mass walkouts demanding …
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Philadelphia Man Sentenced to Nearly 22 Years for Kidnapping and Robbing United States Postal Workers
by DOJ PressPHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that James Chandler, 55, of Philadelphia, PA was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in prison, and five supervised release …
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When it comes to medical freedom, “My body, my choice” rings through the halls of New York City’s City Hall corridors. That is unless your medical freedom of choice is …
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(Reuters) – A Teamsters group, which represents roughly 7,000 Amazon.com Inc fulfillment center workers across Canada’s Alberta and the Northwest Territories, has filed an application with the Labor Board to …
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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Two Georgia election workers who were the target of vote-rigging conspiracy theories have reached a settlement agreement with the far-right One America News Network in …
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PITTSBURGH, April 19, 2022 — “I’m a beautician and I wanted to create a face mask shield that would cover and protect my entire face area,” said an inventor, from …
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By Jan Schwartz and Christoph Steitz FRANKFURT – German car parts supplier Continental AG has temporarily resumed tyre production for passenger cars at its Russian plant in Kaluga, it said …
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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s administration plans to rescind a rule devised under his predecessor Donald Trump that was intended to make it easier for healthcare providers including doctors and …
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BAYVILLE, NJ – An Ocean County landscaping company has been ordered to pay 47 migrant workers a total of $181,670 in back wages after a judge ruled the company was …
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DUESSELDORF – Thyssenkrupp is cutting working hours for 1,300 of its steel workers, the German conglomerate said on Thursday, responding to the impact of the war in Ukraine on the …