Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics business Link 18 votes
New Jersey is motivating telecommuters to appeal their New York tax bills. Connecticut may be next. Article 1066 words 13 votes
Ericsson will lay off about 1,200 employees in Sweden as the telecommunications company faces slowed demand for its 5G equipment business Article 9 votes
Finland's proposed labour reforms risk doing more harm than good economics Article 1061 words 8 votes
US Federal Trade Commission and eight states sue to block supermarket merger between Kroger and Albertsons business Article 778 words 37 votes
Las Vegas workers facing labor abuse get renewed federal protections from deportation Article 912 words, published Jan 17 2024 12 votes
Should pay be more transparent? Policies that force companies to reveal the pay of peers have unintended consequences. business Link 25 votes
Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners business Article 978 words 10 votes
Why Walmart pays its truck drivers six figures business Article 1986 words, published Jan 23 2024 16 votes
Why is Israel sending Palestinian taxes to Norway? Public money destined for Gaza has been frozen by Israel since November. Article 1001 words 13 votes
Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174? business Article 3248 words, published Jan 4 2024 20 votes
‘Winning requires hard work’: Wayfair CEO sends employees a gloomy pre-holiday email following layoff-filled year business Article 546 words 27 votes
Swedish fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week business Article 268 words 12 votes
The robots are coming, but older workers have less to fear than they might think Article 306 words, published Oct 8 2023 7 votes
Spain fines 'Big Four' consulting firms for 'marathon' working days business Article 704 words, published Sep 27 2023 13 votes
Treasury Department releases first-of-its-kind report on benefits of unions to the US economy Article 834 words 61 votes
The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity - the goal is avoiding a commercial real estate crash business Article 930 words 132 votes
99-year-old US trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30,000 out of work business Article 30 votes
Teamsters in the USA win historic UPS contract, with zero concessions business Article 970 words 87 votes
The greatest tax system in the world – why can't America be as great as the Faroe Islands? business Article 1242 words, published Jan 2 2023 14 votes
Spotify said Monday that it will cut 6% of its workforce to reduce costs – CEO Daniel Ek took full responsibility for the job cuts, which he called “difficult but necessary” business Article 326 words 8 votes
Danish bank workers celebrate full year without robberies – finance workers' union says number of bank heists has been affected by fall in use of cash in recent years banking Article 196 words 8 votes
Grab – Asia's Uber – knows customers and drivers so well it can vet them for loans business Article 523 words 6 votes
4,000 US Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic business Article 1220 words 12 votes
Coinbase to lay off 18% of staff (1,110 people) because the company grew too quickly and a potential recession "could lead to another crypto winter" cryptocurrency business Article 89 words 17 votes
Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts file to create chain's first union business Article 475 words, published Jun 8 2022 16 votes
Solving the operator ‘shortage’ by not running transit like a business business Article 1634 words, published Dec 28 2021 8 votes
Amazon says it will stop interfering with workers organizing on-site business Article 370 words 14 votes
What’s going on with the ‘Great Resignation’? You’d better work on hanging on to your workers, or you may end up shutting your business doors. business Article 867 words 17 votes
Xsolla fires 150 employees based on big data analysis of their activity business Article 492 words, published Aug 4 2021 14 votes
Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate en route, despite company denial business Article 1115 words 24 votes
So how should your favorite restaurant pay its servers? Well, it's complicated economics Article 1016 words 10 votes
Gumroad's approach to work: no meetings, no deadlines, no full-time employees business Article 2229 words 5 votes
Managers at a Tyson pork processing plant in Iowa allegedly bet money on how many workers would contract COVID-19 business Article 837 words 7 votes