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9 votes
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Finland's proposed labour reforms risk doing more harm than good
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US Fed’s Jerome Powell ready to support job market, even if it means lingering inflation
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US Federal Trade Commission and eight states sue to block supermarket merger between Kroger and Albertsons
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Our company is doing so well that you’re all fired
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Las Vegas workers facing labor abuse get renewed federal protections from deportation
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Should pay be more transparent? Policies that force companies to reveal the pay of peers have unintended consequences.
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Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners
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Why Walmart pays its truck drivers six figures
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US companies including Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Starbucks are using new legal playbook against unions, experts say
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Why is Israel sending Palestinian taxes to Norway? Public money destined for Gaza has been frozen by Israel since November.
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Will US companies hire fewer engineers due to Section 174?
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What is the importance of management jobs when applying for bank products?
I live in the EU. I recently applied for a credit card, and the banker asked me (about my job): "Is it a management role?" I realized that it is a question I have been asked several times in the...
I live in the EU. I recently applied for a credit card, and the banker asked me (about my job): "Is it a management role?"
I realized that it is a question I have been asked several times in the past by banks. I tried a cursory google & Reddit search, but I haven't found anyone being curious about this.
I'll try here then. Does anyone know why bankers ask this question? How does it matter? Are "individual contributors" seen as worse/riskier customers than managers?
I have my own informal, anecdotal opinion, but I'm hoping to hear some more informed answer.
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‘Winning requires hard work’: Wayfair CEO sends employees a gloomy pre-holiday email following layoff-filled year
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With offices sitting empty, US landlords are ‘handing back the keys’
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Swedish fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week
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Maersk to cut 10,000 jobs as shipping firm revenue slides
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Costco capitalism
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The robots are coming, but older workers have less to fear than they might think
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ILWU dockworkers union files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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Spain fines 'Big Four' consulting firms for 'marathon' working days
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Treasury Department releases first-of-its-kind report on benefits of unions to the US economy
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Bosses dislike work-from-home but suspect they’re stuck with it
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The war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity - the goal is avoiding a commercial real estate crash
132 votes -
99-year-old US trucking company Yellow shuts down, putting 30,000 out of work
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Teamsters in the USA win historic UPS contract, with zero concessions
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Pay raises in the US are finally beating inflation after two years of falling behind
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Judge delays rollout of New York's delivery worker minimum wage law
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Report - The increasing return of legal child labor to the US economy
Child labor is making a comeback with a vengeance. A striking number of lawmakers are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that have long prevented (or at least seriously...
Child labor is making a comeback with a vengeance. A striking number of lawmakers are undertaking concerted efforts to weaken or repeal statutes that have long prevented (or at least seriously inhibited) the possibility of exploiting children.
Take a breath and consider this: the number of kids at work in the U.S. increased by 37% between 2015 and 2022. During the last two years, 14 states have either introduced or enacted legislation rolling back regulations that governed the number of hours children can be employed, lowered the restrictions on dangerous work, and legalized subminimum wages for youths.
Iowa now allows those as young as 14 to work in industrial laundries. At age 16, they can take jobs in roofing, construction, excavation, and demolition and can operate power-driven machinery. Fourteen-year-olds can now even work night shifts and once they hit 15 can join assembly lines. All of this was, of course, prohibited not so long ago.
Legislators offer fatuous justifications for such incursions into long-settled practice. Working, they tell us, will get kids off their computers or video games or away from the TV. Or it will strip the government of the power to dictate what children can and can’t do, leaving parents in control — a claim already transformed into fantasy by efforts to strip away protective legislation and permit 14-year-old kids to work without formal parental permission.
In 2014, the Cato Institute, a right-wing think tank, published “A Case Against Child Labor Prohibitions,” arguing that such laws stifled opportunity for poor — and especially Black — children. The Foundation for Government Accountability, a think tank funded by a range of wealthy conservative donors including the DeVos family, has spearheaded efforts to weaken child-labor laws, and Americans for Prosperity, the billionaire Koch brothers’ foundation, has joined in.
Here is a Robert Frost poem related to the subject of the article. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53087/out-out
I'm GenX and I worked as a teen, but my earliest jobs were babysitting, not industrial labor.
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Why are US red states hiring so much faster than blue states?
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The reasons behind France’s pension protests
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The greatest tax system in the world – why can't America be as great as the Faroe Islands?
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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”
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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees
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Can software simplify the supply chain? Ryan Petersen thinks so
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4,000 US Google cafeteria workers quietly unionized during the pandemic
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How the YouTube creator economy works
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Immigration shortfall may be a headwind for labor supply
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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"
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Trader Joe's workers in Massachusetts file to create chain's first union
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Robinhood set to lay off 9% of their full time employees
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Amazon workers on Staten Island vote for a union
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How truckers are paid
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America is facing a great talent recession
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Solving the operator ‘shortage’ by not running transit like a business
8 votes -
Amazon says it will stop interfering with workers organizing on-site
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Amazon workers in Alabama to get another union election
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Lawyers from top accounting firms do brief stints in the US Treasury Department, with the expectation of big raises when they return
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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.
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Pay cut: Google employees who work from home could lose money
16 votes