Thyssenkrupp puts 1,300 steel workers on short working hours
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 …
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Analysis-Russian workers face new reality as Ukraine war sanctions sap job prospects
LONDON – The phone call telling Oleksandr Kyryliuk he was losing his job came just hours after Russian troops stormed into Ukraine. His employer, beermaker …
Yelp to offer U.S. workers abortion travel benefit
(Reuters) – Yelp, Inc said on Tuesday it will cover expenses for its employees and their dependents who need to travel to another state for …
Murphy Needs to Drop COVID Vax Requirement for Healthcare Workers as Shortage Looms, Piperno
From the desk of Marlyn Piperno and Kimm Eulner TRENTON, NJ – Two New Jersey legislators are calling on Governor Phil Murphy to move along …
Activision to convert over thousand temporary workers to full-time roles
(Reuters) – Activision Blizzard Inc said on Thursday nearly 1,100 U.S.-based temporary and contingent quality assurance workers of some divisions will be converted to full-time …
PSE&G Trains Workers for Clean Energy Jobs
Utility Aims to Prepare 2,000 People from Underserved Communities for Careers in Energy NEWARK, N.J., April 6, 2022 — PSE&G has kicked off a novel …
Florida Woman Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Conspiracy Involving the Forced Labor of Mexican Agricultural H-2A Workers
Tampa, FL — A woman in Florida pleaded guilty today to a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized Mexican agricultural workers admitted into the United States under …
Union election petitions surge as U.S. workers organize
By Hilary Russ NEW YORK – U.S. workers and labor groups filed 57% more petitions to be represented by unions in the last six months …
Bank of America to bring workers back to office by June 1 -Bloomberg
NEW YORK – Bank of America told staff earlier this week that it plans to bring workers back to offices by June 1, including those …
Amazon considered creating app for its workers and blocking words like ‘union’ -The Intercept
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc staff included the words “union,” “grievance,” and “living wage” on a preliminary list of terms to block from an internal messaging …
Mercedes-Benz puts 5,600 workers on vacation in Brazil due to chips shortage
SAO PAULO – Mercedes-Benz Group will put more than five thousand workers on collective vacation in two plants in Brazil due to the shortage of …
Workday to build Dublin campus to house 1,000 more workers
DUBLIN – Workday Inc will add 1,000 jobs at its European headquarters in Dublin over the next two years and construct a 51,000 square metre …
Biden was glad to see Amazon workers’ voices were heard in union vote – White House
WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden was glad to see that the voices of Amazon.com Inc workers were heard, the White House said on Friday, after …
Brazil’s central bank to postpone payments to banks due to striking workers
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA – Brazil’s central bank decided on Wednesday to postpone payments to financial institutions for resources held in accounts from the Pix …
Brick Township Now Hiring Seasonal Workers
BRICK, NJ – If you’re looking for a summer job, Brick Township has one for you. This year, the township is getting a head start …
Truckmaker MAN to shorten hours of up to 11,000 workers on Ukraine crisis
BERLIN – German commercial vehicle maker Traton’s MAN unit will shorten the hours of as many as 11,000 workers in Germany as the war in …
Second Doctor Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud Conspiracy
FAYETTEVILLE – An Alexandria, La., physician pleaded guilty today to having conspired to violate three different federal statutes in connection with a scheme to defraud …
Philadelphia Psychiatrist to Pay $3 Million to Resolve Allegations of False Workers’ Compensation Claims
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Dr. Harry Doyle and his wife, Sonya Doyle, of Philadelphia, PA, have agreed to pay …
Britain’s Sainsbury’s faces shareholder vote on workers pay
By James Davey LONDON – Sainsbury’s shareholders are set to vote on a resolution at this year’s annual meeting calling for Britain’s second biggest supermarket …
GM workers in northern Mexico vote to keep union contract
MEXICO CITY – General Motors Co workers in northern Mexico have voted by a broad margin to keep their collective contract with one of Mexico’s …
Hershey workers at Virginia plant vote against unionizing
By Praveen Paramasivam – Workers at Hershey Co’s second largest U.S. manufacturing plant voted against unionizing, even as unionization efforts have gained momentum among low-paid …
Peabody Construction Company Owner Sentenced for Tax and Workers’ Compensation Fraud
BOSTON – The former owner of a Peabody construction company was sentenced today in connection with a scheme to defraud the IRS of payroll taxes …
Russia’s largest airport furloughs some workers, freezes hiring
– Russia’s largest airport, Moscow’s Sheremetyevo, said on Monday it had furloughed a fifth of its staff and frozen further recruitment as passenger traffic plunged …
Canada’s CP Rail shuts down railroad, workers strike
By Rod Nickel and Ann Maria Shibu – Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) halted operations and locked out workers over a labor dispute early on Sunday, …
Watch: Armed burglars pose as Con Edison workers to force entry, rob Queens homeowner
NEW YORK, NY – The New York City Police are investigating a Queens home invasion where two suspects dressed as Con Edison workers approached a …
Walmart To Hire Tens Of Thousands Of Workers
Walmart To Hire Tens Of Thousands Of Workers Harry Wilmerding on March 17, 2022 The nation’s largest private employer announced plans to hire tens of …
Walmart plans to hire over 50,000 U.S. workers in Q1
-Walmart Inc said on Wednesday it plans to hire more than 50,000 workers in the United States in the first quarter, as the U.S. retailer …
IRS Seeks To Hire 10,000 More Workers To Relieve Backlog
IRS Seeks To Hire 10,000 More Workers To Relieve Backlog Harry Wilmerding on March 11, 2022 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a plan Thursday …
Workers at three New York Starbucks cafes vote to unionize
– Employees at three Starbucks Corp cafes in Buffalo, New York voted to unionize on Wednesday, bringing the total number of the coffee chain’s stores …
United Airlines to let unvaccinated workers return – WSJ
– United Airlines Holdings Inc will allow workers who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 for religious or medical reasons to return at the end …
Auto sector’s transition to EVs needs safeguards for workers, environment -panel
By Ben Klayman DETROIT – Auto industry companies need to take into account their communities and workers through greater environmental protections and higher pay in …
Walmart to offer its Walmart Plus service to its workers for free
By Siddharth Cavale – Walmart Inc, the world’s largest retailer, will offer its Walmart Plus membership service free for part-time and full-time workers in the …
Women workers could drive $1 trln rise in U.S. GDP – Moody’s
By Federica Urso – The U.S. economy could get a $1 trillion boost over the next 10 years if female labor market participation grew to …
Union workers urge Manchin to pass key bill in West Virginia ad blitz
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON – A labor group on Tuesday launched an ad blitz across West Virginia featuring union workers urging Democratic Senator Joe Manchin …
Fines over cheaper ‘posted workers’ must be proportionate, EU court says
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS – Fines on companies that send workers from low-pay EU states to richer member states and fail to comply with …
Separatists in Indonesia’s Papua kill 8 workers at telecom tower
JAKARTA – Separatists in Indonesia’s easternmost region of Papua have killed eight technicians who were working on fixing a telecommunications tower in a mountainous area, …
New York Times tech workers vote to join union
By Daniel Wiessner NEW YORK – A group of nearly 600 tech employees at The New York Times Co has voted to unionize as the …
Amazon workers get go-ahead for a second union election in New York -organizer
By Jeffrey Dastin – Amazon.com Inc workers at a Staten Island sortation center have been given the greenlight to hold a vote on whether to …
Workers at Mexico border auto parts plant oust powerful union, eying ripple effect
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY – An overwhelming vote by workers at a northern Mexican factory to elect an independent union, defeating an entrenched …
Democrat lawmakers in Trenton reject bill that would exempt public workers from vaccine mandate
TRENTON, NJ – With Governor Phil Murphy declaring the COVID-19 pandemic in its waning days and quickly heading into endemic territory, outnumbered Republicans in the …
Former Rogers Company Owner and Former CEO Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud/Kickback Conspiracy, Other Crimes
FORT SMITH – Both the former owner of a Rogers-based medical supply and billing company and its former chief executive officer have been indicted by …
EMT workers start shift to find ambulance ransacked and robbed
STAFFORD TOWNSHIP, NJ – When volunteers from the Stafford EMS arrived for their shift Friday night, they discovered their ambulance was ransacked and robbed. “Late …
Telecom Italia weighs sale of INWIT stake as workers stage strike
By Elvira Pollina MILAN -Telecom Italia (TIM) is considering selling its stake in mobile tower group INWIT to French investment fund Ardian as part of …
If NJ Labor Department office don’t reopen and workers don’t show up for work, they shouldn’t get paid, Testa says
From the desk of Senator Michael Testa TRENTON, NJ – In an effort to put teeth into the repeated calls from thousands of New Jersey’s …
Reuters wins Polk Award for series on intimidation of U.S. election workers
By Reuters staff – The staff of Reuters has received a George Polk Award for its coverage of widespread intimidation of U.S. election workers by …
Oregon, California seek to protect election workers from threats
By Linda So WASHINGTON – Lawmakers in Oregon and California are calling for tougher legislation to protect election workers in response to a continuing wave …
When it comes to New Jersey public workers being fired for being unvaccinated, Murphy says it will be different strokes for different folks
TRENTON, NJ – As the vaccination deadline for New Jersey public workers has come and gone, now it’s time for the axes to begin falling. …
Mexico border city auto workers gear up for union vote in trade deal test
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY -Two years after workers at Mexico’s Tridonex auto-parts plant began a campaign to replace a union that they accused …
Exxon welcomes upcoming vote on offer to locked-out Texas refinery workers
By Erwin Seba HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp on Tuesday welcomed an upcoming vote by workers at its Beaumont, Texas, refinery on a new contract …
Texas refinery workers to vote on Exxon contract proposal -union official
By Erwin Seba BEAUMONT, Texas -Union officials on Monday agreed to schedule a membership vote on a contract offer that could end a nearly 10-month …